Immersive fashion “phygital” experience (a merger of physical and digital) created by RYOT and hosted in the Museum of Other Realities that showcases leading digital artists in collaboration with fashion designers. A platform for unheard stories designed to demonstrate the shift in fashion from from analogue to digital with the creation of sculptural 3D garments that are combined with storyworlds - self contained universes inspired by their fashion design concepts.
Darmara - Fashion tech cyborg who studies the relationship between the physical body and digital identity. Curator of extended and interative reality fashion experiences. Collaborated with Sutu to create ‘Symbotic Wear’ - realities that humans can only experience when connected to technology. Transparency of layers represent the invisibility of deep ocean creatures and light used to communicate. “Welcome to the inner bubble”, inviting the viewer to cross the portal, into an unknown layer of how the garment is made up, through symbosis with the virtual environment. Expansion of the wearable vocabulary.
Sabinna - passion for craft and an affinity for technology. Her focus is innovation, storytelling and conciousness. Explore human connections and interactions in digital spaces. Collaborated with VRHUMAN to create ‘A Stitch in Time’. Bridge between hand made and virtual presented the opportunity to connect two worlds. Eternity coat that represents the VR world that you get to see inside - ‘Inception’ analogy, we are a sum of our memories and thoughts. Concept of reconnecting to one another and need to look at the story world from the outside i.e. exiting. and explore the meaning of space and time. Crystals used as a way of looking into the future and also a way of reflecting back the past.
Charli Cohen - A brand at the intersection of style and technology - performance, sports wear and high fashion. Wants to bring to the fore issues such as mental health using brand storytelling. Collaboration with Gudetama - uses dark humour as a coping method. Partnering with Anana Duncan their concept looks at the masks that we all wear to conceal our struggles and vunerabilities. The garment featured is the Why? coat - upcycled from sleeping bags to make sure every day that needs to be can be a duvet day.
Credits: ‘The Fabric of Reality’, produced by RYOT in partnership with The London College of Fashion’s Fashion Innovation agency, Kaleidoscope. Relevant article: The Changing Face Of Fashion - How Virtual Fashion Is Going To Make The Unimaginable Real
