The Thread Weekly is your best source for a quick debrief across the latest news, actions, events and happenings in web3 fashion, the open metaverse and beyond. It’s curated and published by DIGITALAX and the Global Designer Network.
Weave your way through the threads below to get all caught up on the culture from Nov 8th- 14th 2021.
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First Weekly Designer Spotlight with ENKI Digital Fashion
We had the first designer spotlight week with ENKI digital fashion! Discord AMAs, cool Twitter thread insights, dedicated Twitter spaces, Web3 Fashion Vault treasury purchases and more!
Mutani International Chart Topper
Shayli and Mutani.io were featured in episode 44 of the The Most podcast talking all things metaverse fashion and the power of NFTs for creators. Make sure to give it a listen!
Red DAO Steals a GDN Midwest Misfit Gem
Red DAO added one of Midwest Misfit’s pieces to their collection— a stunning unlockable digital duffle bag. The details on this piece are just 👌😉
Keep Twitching
If you missed the latest GDN Twitch streams, check them out below, some cool new content for your eyes to adore:
- Twitch stream with Kurmanintailor. How to style your digital clothes with Photoshop.
- Twitch stream with Stella Achenbach. How to export your garment from Clo to Blender for the Miami Catwalk.
Full Web3 Fashion Economy Value Scaling Updates Released
Emma released a full update video on the DIGITALAX protocol stack architecture and how this reinforces core components of the web3 fashion economy; composability, interoperability and forkability.
Saso’s Work is Super FRE$$$$HHHH
A small note from Saso on some amazing work they completed for the Fresh Couture collab. We love you Saso and your work is insane! Congrats on the collab! Big things ahead….
So a bunch of time ago (feels like forever because of how fast things move in web3) I got contacted by Stella, and she told me they're doing a collab with Fresh Couture, a brand I didn't know at they time. When I checked it out my jaw dropped, because it was kind of a big brand. Not bad for my first ever commission, but I nearly wasn't going to take it because I had 0 prior working experience in 3D, and this seemed crazy. However, I learned that it's not about the experience you have - if there is an opportunity presented to you and you have the time for that opportunity, then that's all that matters. You learn most of your skills on the job - Tania, Domingo and Midwestmisfit and I were supporting each other, giving feedback and I learned so much from this experience it's crazy. I think my experience is honestly the run of the mill for any beginner designer in the Global Designer network: you just come in as a complete clueless noob, and the community instantly provides you with close support, educational resources and many opportunities to work with real people and to gain real professional experience, which is kind of mind blowing. Web3 fashion is completely flipping traditional employment hierarchies, and that's kind of what we're about.
Kind thanks to Stella, who gave me courage and was incredibly supportive during this experience, protecting the interests of GDN members. Kind thanks to Emma and the team for building this insane community.
Do You Feel Me?
Amratio has embarked on a new project— designing cool IRL T-shirts with messages that hit home for almost all modern day cyber users— the insta photo doesn’t do justice in capturing the real experiences and emotions felt off camera.
Each designed shirt will include a logo as a back print and also include the text “do you feel me?” The smiling mouth portrays what we want to show other people around us, i.e. we’re happy all the time. The sad faces making up the eyes portray the deeper and real feelings that are often hidden.
The message here is that we are all vulnerable sometimes. If only more of us could summon the courage to break the stigma and share with all of our many friends, online and IRL, everything would suddenly be alright? But, what happens when we open up and the people who swore would be there to catch us when we fall, just like they do, have turned away to tell someone else to seize the moment and take that chance.
Turns out, relentless positivity only takes us so far.
Who could have guessed that there is nuance in what we feel and in what it takes to make the structures that work best for each of us. Maybe we need more. Do you feel me? goes deeper into the places where we are not so sure how best to solve it or what the answers are all the time.
MoNa Gallery Reward 😍
Amazing news and a massive congrats in order for Catherinetheworst, Stella Achenbach and Virtualperfectioncowboy who were all awarded by MoNa Gallery in their collaborative The Temple of the MultiMinds piece. View the full piece here. And, it’s now live for sale on Foundation! Check out the mint here.
Emotions Do Transition
Check out a sneak peek of an awesome upcoming collab between Stella Achenbach, Daria Permina, Paola Olaguivel and E-Oma………EXCITTTIGNNGSGGGGG!!!!1111111
Sneakpeek here. Click if you so dare.
Digi Models on the Rise
Aisha and Jess showed us how it’s done with some amazing digi model creations…
Welcome New Designers!
We also had new designers join us on-chain, where each was sent their official GDN Membership NFT to represent their first steps into the DAO and unlocking all the cool access and levels up that come with being part of the GDN and the amazing community surrounding web3 fashion.
A massively warm welcome to;
- 997
- kvwfyi. black cat 🐈⬛ artist working in the world of fashion.
- tabu
- I'm a phygital clothing designer interested in the development of web3 fashion.
If any of you have any questions, queries or need help navigating the depths of web3 fashion, the open metaverse and more, let us know in the GDN or DIGITALAX discords! We are so excited for the journey ahead!
Web3 Fashion DAO Governance Voting
- DIGITALAX (Upcoming Voting)
- There are currently active DIGITALAX Improvement Proposals (DIPs) on the DIGITALAX governance forum for commentary before they go live to Snapshot tomorrow.
- DIGITALAX (Last Week’s Proposal Outcomes)
- DIP-003— Defenders by Ros3D was ranked highest in the Luxury sector for the iW3Fi.
- DIP-004— Stan Mclygin was voted highest for the Designer Weekly Spotlight and will be featured this week!
- DIP-005— Everything Was Red by ENKI Digital Fashion was added to the DIGITALAX Web3 Fashion Vault.
- Global Designer Network (LIVE Snapshot Fashion Improvement Proposals)
- Global Designer Network (Closed Proposals)
- FIP-010— Abyssal Jumpsuit ENKI Digital Fashion was added to the GDN Web3 Fashion Vault.
Web3 Fashion Treasury Vaults
- DIGITALAX Web3 Fashion Treasury Vault. View Vault here.
- Last week Everything Was Red by ENKI Digital Fashion was purchased and added to the DIGITALAX Vault.
- GDN Web3 Fashion Treasury Vault. View Vault here.
- Last week Abyssal Jumpsuit by ENKI Digital Fashion was purchased and added to the Global Designer Network Vault.
Upcoming Designer Spotlight
Stan Mclygin 🔥🔥🔥
Make sure to follow Stan on twitter as we get ready for a week of awesome designer action!
Latest FGO Mints
This week **Keeping Distance **went on a minting spree, bringing more of that open sauciness goodness to the FGO libraries. You can check out some of the mints below and view the full collection under Keeping Distance’s designer profile.
Top Web3 Fashion Meta Source Vault Contributors
The Meta Source Vaults are building out the directly accessible content x web3 value layer for all creators, designers and metaverse dwellers, so anyone can have the tools and resources they need to join this market and level up. See the vaults here.
- Stan Mclygin
- Garments, Scenes + Add Ons
Check Out the Best of this Week’s Indie Web3 Fashion NFTs
Tales of Web3 Tailors Podcast | Track 8
Check out the latest Web3 Tailors Podcast where we sat down with Mo! Mo has been in the crypto and web3 space for quite sometime, as well as a keen experimenter for all things physical x digital, where she originally got into fashion through tye dying t-shirts!
The First Designer Realms Launch: Indie Web3 Fashion Fleet
- More updates will be released this week from the official DIGITALAX accounts regarding the Designer Realm Blueprint, so that every designer can start launching their own web3 native realms.
- Stay up to date with all designer realms in the DIGITALAX discord specified channels.
ALTERRAGE.
Phoebe Heess.
Key iW3Fi (indie Web3 Fashion index) Data
- GDN DAO Member Count:
- 93 (GDN Membership NFT Sent & Onboarding Complete)
- Active iWeb3 Fashion Governance Proposals:
- 5
- Open Source 1155 Pattern Mint Count:
- 473
- iWeb3 Fashion NFT Mint Count:
- 1697
- iWeb3 Fashion LIVE for Sale Count:
- 1752
- iWeb3 Fashion Last Highest Sale Price:
- 15 $MONA
- Web3 Fashion Luxury Traits:
- Added Luxury Items:
- The Whisper Part 5 | by Domingo Beta https://twitter.com/glycemag/status/1452426093919621134
- Defenders | by Ros3D www.fashion.digitalax.xyz/product/306/3/0/
Spaces, Houses & Other Speaking Events
There are always more seats at the table in web3 fashion, join us for our next Twitter Spaces, Clubhouse event or other speaking engagements!
- Clubhouse: Future of Phygital with @KALAU.URL
- Monday November 15 @ 19hr UTC
- Twitter Spaces - @KALAU & @0xycesh:
- Spaces with Style | Thursday Nov 18th, 2021 at 18hr UTC / 11 AM PT
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Clubhouse: Digital Fashion Council (LATAM) with @TheLATAMFashion Council
- Saturday, November 20 @ 6pm CST with Karina, Hafid, Domingo, Catherinetheworst.
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Live Event: Intro to Web 3.0 for Community Builders with CMX Community
- Tuesday November 16 @ 10 AM PS | Emma’s presentation.
https://events.cmxhub.com/events/details/cmx-cmx-hq-presents-intro-to-web-30-for-community-builders/
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Alterrage Designer Realm Updates
- Twitter spaces event with KALAU & Alterrage. Friday November 19th 2pm CET.
Upcoming GDN Member Deadlines
Attention to all GDN members, see below the top priorities and deadlines for this week and message in the discord if there are any questions or queries!
- DCentralCon Miami Submitting Digital Fashion NFTs + Runway Pieces - Make sure to get both the AR filter source files and also the rendered designs in to be put into the Runway montage ASAP.
- HeatDAO Fashion x Dance collab— theme is Holy Mountain. Please fit the designs on the animation FBX provided before December 17th to then be passed back to the HeatDAO team for the next stages of the scene modeling and rendering.
- GDN Purveyors— book your slot in the GDN public calendar for releasing your Thread Weekly iterations. First versions will be published live this coming week (15th - 21st Nov).
The Best of W3F Memes
We couldn’t call ourselves a truly authentic web3 crypto community if we didn’t round out with some in-house designed degen style memes 😂… Enjoy…..😂
Any patronage of The Thread Weekly goes directly to the Global Designer Network Treasury and core GDN member writer for the week (70/30), for further growing out the infrastructure, community and market of web3 fashion, the open metaverse and more. For this week, the core writer was GDN member Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee.