{"id":132660,"date":"2021-12-18T15:23:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T23:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/digital-dress-codes-what-will-we-wear-in-the-metaverse"},"modified":"2021-12-18T15:23:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T23:23:14","slug":"digital-dress-codes-what-will-we-wear-in-the-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/digital-dress-codes-what-will-we-wear-in-the-metaverse","title":{"rendered":"Digital dress codes: What will we wear in the metaverse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/digital-dress-codes-what-will-we-wear-in-the-metaverse2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Digital fashion marketplaces have recently opened, including DressX, hoping that shoppers will be keen to start a virtual wardrobe. Credit: DressX<\/p>\n<p>Outfitting our digital personas is nothing new, from making pixelated <a href=\"https:\/\/dollzmania.neocities.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dollz<\/a> in the early 2000s to shopping these days for new wardrobe additions in Animal Crossing. The video game industry has more recently laid the groundwork for digital fashion, with outfits or \u201cskins,\u201d in games like Overwatch and Fortnite generating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juniperresearch.com\/press\/video-game-loot-boxes-to-generate-over-$20-billion\" target=\"_blank\">billions in revenue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some major fashion players have already begun capitalizing on the gaming market \u2014 in 2019, Louis Vuitton designed skins for League of Legends, and Nike and Ralph Lauren have this year offered avatar accessories through the virtual world-building platform Roblox. Outside of gaming environments, NFTs \u2014 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/03\/17\/business\/what-is-nft-meaning-fe-series\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">non-fungible tokens<\/a>, which use blockchain technology to verify ownership of digital assets \u2014 have allowed digital fashion to be monetized more broadly as well. (This fall, Dolce &amp; Gabbana\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/unxd.com\/drops\/dolce-gabbana-collezione-genesi\" target=\"_blank\">NFT collection<\/a> sold out for 1,885.719 ETH, at the time equivalent to $6 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital fashion marketplaces have recently opened, including DressX, hoping that shoppers will be keen to start a virtual wardrobe. Credit: DressX Outfitting our digital personas is nothing new, from making pixelated Dollz in the early 2000s to shopping these days for new wardrobe additions in Animal Crossing. The video game industry has more recently laid [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}