Cultural Ultra-Lightpaper: Fashionworlds in Our Newly Decentralized World
Fashionworlds in the Multiverse
Blockchain can do more than preserve our cultural past. Innovators today are protecting diversity and inclusion through decentralizing technology. We developed LUKSO to defend our creative future.
LUKSO provides virtual infrastructure and new standards for non-fungible fashion. Artists are proving how non-fungible tokens can break through the institutional barriers of galleries, agents, and professional critics through peer-to-peer sales. Non-fungible fashion introduces new by-ways for creatives to decentralize more than just buying; we want to empower creators with a platform that decentralizes tastemaking.
On International Women’s Day, I found myself thinking that perhaps breaking through is not enough. Today, we want to say: let’s break past our culture of toxic masculinity with peer-to-peer NFF contracts to uplift a new generation of creators who reflect our diversity as real peers.
To do our part, we can do more than flip questions about the gamification of fashion or whether fashion is art. How do we elevate designers bringing the fullness of digital art and play to fashion? Which approach best showcases the possibilities represented by post-textile fashioning in our rapidly phygitizing world? Most importantly, where do we position virtual style, to adapt for how the pandemic accelerated reorientations of the artisanal towards the experience economy?
These concerns speak to our lack of truly coequal spaces. We as a community can remake the very concept of “venue” in the multiverse. Digital wardrobes enabled by LUKSO allow creatives not only to curate virtual garments, but also to offer tours through their sense of style. More than that, digital wardrobes allow creators and collectors to put their virtual self on tour.
Already our concept of secure universal public profiles has drawn attention for the strong business potentials of integrating personal branding with increased access, and established fashion houses continue to experiment with translating their seasonal runways into video stagings and capsule happenings. Now, having secured designs for entry into established artworlds, we can take the next step to invigorate our communities. Decentralized virtual fashion empowers creative peers to sculpt their own spaces, to sustainably model their own values — in short, to generate their own fashionworlds.
Let’s start including more people. Let’s take them on grand tours of our new, digital fashionworlds. Together.
