{"id":3151,"date":"2021-10-07T16:43:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/07\/is-there-room-in-the-metaverse-for-indie-fashion-labels-australian-designers-hope-so\/"},"modified":"2021-10-07T16:43:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:43:04","slug":"is-there-room-in-the-metaverse-for-indie-fashion-labels-australian-designers-hope-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/07\/is-there-room-in-the-metaverse-for-indie-fashion-labels-australian-designers-hope-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there room in the metaverse for indie fashion labels? Australian designers hope so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As high-end fashion conglomerates rush to invest in virtual reality fashion, small players are making moves too<\/p>\n<p>In the designer Denni Francisco\u2019s new film, models wearing clothes from her label Ngali wander through a virtual landscape. Using this digital medium, it was possible to take her collection on location, despite being in lockdown and unable to travel.<\/p>\n<p>This was particularly important for Francisco, a Wiradjuri woman, as the landscape used in the film is based on Taungurung Country, in central Victoria, where Francisco was born, and her daughter now lives. She says when she\u2019s designing, connection to Country is at the forefront of her mind. \u201cWe\u2019re often talking about how what we do belongs to Country, how it\u2019s connected to Country and how it has a rightful place in Country,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>The VR film will premiere not at a fashion event, but at Melbourne International Games Week. Francisco is one of seven apparel and accessories designers included in a digital fashion incubator project, an initiative of Creative Victoria, that saw independent Victorian designers collaborate with Melbourne-based AR\/VR studio Ignition Immersive. Some projects, like Francisco\u2019s, are artistic while others are more pragmatic, allowing would-be customers to virtually try accessories at home using AR filters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/2021\/oct\/08\/is-there-room-in-the-metaverse-for-indie-fashion-labels-australian-designers-hope-so\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/53cb45f9f020330f7a666e298740ac3b9ce74bb7\/0_0_1800_1080\/master\/1800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bdd02b61135f0ed907f13e57f7036d28\" title=\"Is there room in the metaverse for indie fashion labels? Australian designers hope so\" \/>As high-end fashion conglomerates rush to invest in virtual reality fashion, small players are making moves too<br \/>\nIn the designer Denni Francisco\u2019s new film, models wearing clothes from her label Ngali wander through a virtual landscape. Using this digital medium, it was possible to take her collection on location, despite being in lockdown and unable to travel.<br \/>\nThis was particularly important for Francisco, a Wiradjuri woman, as the landscape used in the film is based on Taungurung Country, in central Victoria, where Francisco was born, and her daughter now lives. She says when she\u2019s designing, connection to Country is at the forefront of her mind. \u201cWe\u2019re often talking about how what we do belongs to Country, how it\u2019s connected to Country and how it has a rightful place in Country,\u201d she says.The VR film will premiere not at a fashion event, but at Melbourne International Games Week. Francisco is one of seven apparel and accessories designers included in a digital fashion incubator project, an initiative of Creative Victoria, that saw independent Victorian designers collaborate with Melbourne-based AR\/VR studio Ignition Immersive. Some projects, like Francisco\u2019s, are artistic while others are more pragmatic, allowing would-be customers to virtually try accessories at home using AR filters. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As high-end fashion conglomerates rush to invest in virtual reality fashion, small players are making moves too In the designer Denni Francisco\u2019s new film, models wearing clothes from her label Ngali wander through a virtual landscape. Using this digital medium, it was possible to take her collection on location, despite being in lockdown and unable &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/07\/is-there-room-in-the-metaverse-for-indie-fashion-labels-australian-designers-hope-so\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is there room in the metaverse for indie fashion labels? Australian designers hope so<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}