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The New Reality of Fashion is Digital | Gala Marija Vrbanic | TED

Picking an outfit? Take inspiration from this thrilling talk about digital fashion: the new, weird and wonderful world of fashion designed for our virtual worlds. Watch as Gala Marija Vrbanic, a leader in this emerging field, showcases what you could wear across your digital channels — be it TikTok, Instagram or in the metaverse —…

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Picking an outfit? Take inspiration from this thrilling talk about digital fashion: the new, weird and wonderful world of fashion designed for our virtual worlds. Watch as Gala Marija Vrbanic, a leader in this emerging field, showcases what you could wear across your digital channels — be it TikTok, Instagram or in the metaverse — and shares how it could infinitely expand the creative possibilities of fashion, identity and self-expression.

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30 Comments

  1. Ceria Tani

    March 8, 2022 at 6:59 pm

    Hadir menyimak kak,salam kenal,salam sukses selalu

  2. P K

    March 8, 2022 at 7:19 pm

    This feels like a paid advertisement

    • Daṇḍin -Meta MBTI-

      March 9, 2022 at 5:02 am

      it probably is

  3. Ezy Bruker

    March 8, 2022 at 7:19 pm

    I cant tell if this is a joke. your acting like hypebeast culture is a good thing for society

  4. Tyrankoos

    March 8, 2022 at 7:42 pm

    Ii imagine digital fashion and digital fursonas will takeoff once AR glasses start replacing smart phones

  5. Surfing On Squarewaves

    March 8, 2022 at 7:55 pm

    Nah, I’m good ^ _ ^

  6. Thoran666

    March 8, 2022 at 8:09 pm

    Maybe I’m just too old for this but if I cannot take those virtual clothes into the games I play (Fortnite, Battlefield, Skrim ..) they have 0 value for me.

  7. Severinsen

    March 8, 2022 at 9:33 pm

    Ah yes, a new way to scam people out of their money by creating unnecessary false scarcity.
    *GREAT!*

  8. Diego Marques

    March 8, 2022 at 9:56 pm

    More expensive than Gucci, but inclusive.. Oh come on!!

  9. Johanna Zamora

    March 8, 2022 at 10:20 pm

    Truly a case of The Emperor Has No Clothes and A Fool and His Money are Soon Parted.

    Oh, toss in A Sucker Born Every Minute And Two To Take Him and you’ve got your playlist.

  10. garcipat

    March 8, 2022 at 11:10 pm

    Wooow. 120$ for a virtual piece of clothing. This is rediculous. thi makes no sense. And its not 0 wast. somewhere it has to be tored and all the bytes and bits have to be send omewhere. Im sure you also cannot resell it like proper clothing and it doesnt get you war. This is a commercial video in reality. Go home.

  11. Daniel Cascales

    March 8, 2022 at 11:32 pm

    I thought fashion was gender mutual

  12. Fourtii

    March 8, 2022 at 11:34 pm

    Thank god this was not another NFT bs…I actually like this AR concept!

  13. TheCorrupt

    March 9, 2022 at 12:37 am

    Yeah no thank you. This feels like a huge scam.

  14. rolodex

    March 9, 2022 at 2:43 am

    humanity keeps taking the wrong turns lmao

    • Daṇḍin -Meta MBTI-

      March 9, 2022 at 5:02 am

      yes it does

  15. Star Petal Arts

    March 9, 2022 at 3:03 am

    Who else thinks it should be Augmented or Virtual and not Digital in the title?

  16. Lautje Clause

    March 9, 2022 at 3:29 am

    To be completely honest, this terrifies me. I think we’re more or less from the same generation but I don’t get it 🙁 what i love about clothes is the way the fabric feels on my skin, the layers, the way the air moves around/through it. I mean, I do get her point that this is in it’s own way the next logical step etc. . And yet… Think of the things we’d lose….

    • Daṇḍin -Meta MBTI-

      March 9, 2022 at 5:04 am

      I think you’re right. This is not very popular, and for a reason.

    • blaster915

      March 9, 2022 at 9:27 am

      I don’t think we’d lose these things, but most youth hang out online. How many have you seen sit around a table all on their phones and then weirdly laugh at the same time. Communication has gone online. So now has the place to show off

    • Lautje Clause

      March 9, 2022 at 11:47 am

      I mean this with no disrespect to this artist btw…

    • Lautje Clause

      March 9, 2022 at 11:49 am

      @blaster915 yeah, that’s exactly the thing that terrifies me. But you’re probably right that we wouldn’t lose the “tactile dimension”, or at least, I really hope so.

  17. Brandon Chilcoat

    March 9, 2022 at 5:35 am

    This is nonsense.

  18. evolution rhythm

    March 9, 2022 at 7:18 am

    Fashion? How superficial considering. Is it time to “switch off” from reality. Most have yet to “switch on”

    Wars was started intentionally! These deaths were caused intentionally! This was no accident!

    These are the right questions to ask? This is free information.

    Russian people are shown photos of the invasion of Ukraine by a reporter.

    One Russian woman responded to paraphrase “No! No!” as she quickly turned her face away from the photos.

    Why did she find it distressing to see the photos and say “No! No!”? This is a sign of denial. This is probably because she has been told about western “propaganda” from the Russian government. Or it could be due to fear because the Russian woman was being recorded on camera, therefore, did not want to express how she really felt.

    Another response from a different Russian woman was “what are we meant to do? Wait until they attack us?”

    The “attack them before they use weapons of mass destruction” narrative was the narrative used by the western governments to invade Iraq. However, Ukraine is where our focus must be right now.

    The proof of the general motivated reasoning. The information that means this post may be deleted on some crony social media channels.

    The question that will lead to the truth (there is a truth because it was decision-makers [people] that put into action the War. It was planned (obviously, with 200,000 +- armed soldiers). Who is responsible for the deaths? Someone that is hiding in plain sight?

    If the Russian Government has told the Russian people that the “tactical operations” in Ukraine are to destroy “weapons that are threatening Russia”. Then Putin should either provide some evidence that his intelligence agency has such information or Putin, etc, had intentionally constructed a lie as a reason to invade Ukraine.

    Or maybe the Russian Government will also say exactly what the west did “it was incorrect intelligence”

    There was no evidence found of the “weapons of mass destruction” used as the motivated reasoning to invade Iraq. The people will also told that they were freeing the Iraqi people from an “evil” dictator.

    The Russian government also uses the rhetoric that it is “freeing Ukraine from Nazis” which they evidentially were not. E.g., Ukraine was a democracy where people were just getting on with their daily lives. Now it’s a war zone!

    I’m an empiricist (science psychologist) using a laptop and watching social media to gather probable facts. e.g., mainly “on the ground” video footage and listening to the rhetoric from the politicians, political pundits & egotistical billionaire businessmen. so I don’t have access to the evidence to answer all the questions in this report.

    However, I will say one alarming evidentiary idea. There is now a power vacuum accumulating in Ukraine where lots of differing sides and differing ideologies are looking for a fight. That’s where they don’t differ. Their motivator is “looking for a fight”.

    Cannon fodder! for a rich man[s] war games!
    Who is speaking of “peace”? For it is they that are the peace & truth seekers.

  19. Clive Smith

    March 9, 2022 at 7:41 am

    Grow up, get a real life and stop the wars.

  20. Luna

    March 9, 2022 at 8:32 am

    The emperor’s new clothes

  21. Morticia147

    March 9, 2022 at 8:35 am

    I want my spaceship to come and pick me up, this world is so stupid it hurts. No we should pay huge amounts for clothes that aren’t real? Are you serious? That’s so sick, it’s beyond words.

  22. Brahma Astra

    March 9, 2022 at 9:17 am

    we should wear clothes only in the metaverse n remain nude in reality……………….this is real evolution

  23. Grantley Day

    March 9, 2022 at 2:16 pm

    Let me tell you a story about Digital Fashion…. No….

  24. Bieber Ozinga

    March 10, 2022 at 12:31 pm

    what an absolute shtshow 🤮

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