Moderator: Maghan McDowell, Senior Innovation Editor, Vogue Business
“When we talk about digital fashion we often talk about who adopts it, who consumes it, who designs it and what it looks like….
But Digital Fashion is contactless, we don’t get to feel the softness of it’s cashmere or the weight of its sequins, so what can we feel?
Physical/analogue fashion is about being/looking like your best self, specially luxury fashion… I’d love luxury digital fashion to be the opposite, to be an expression of radical vulnerability and empathy.
I like to imagine what it would like, imagine the hoodie of sorrows that you digitally wear to signal that you are about to share vulnerable content. Or a hat of happy thoughts that you wear as an AR experience that is updated with someone positive affirmation…”