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 22nd- 28th 2021.
Top Moments
Alexander goes IRL
Metaverse fashion doesn’t just mean digital, and many of the GDN designers are well versed across both the physical and digital realms. Alexander recently released an IRL fashion collection with Shein that was produced out of the 3D digital prototypes that he created. Although Shein isn’t the most sustainable brand out there, and definitely a fast fashion retailer, the designs themselves are very cool and we can’t wait to be able to enable every GDN designer to have access to the necessary tools to fabricate sustainably from start to finish!
Musashi & Moloch Cloudship
In the web3 space, Moloch has come to represent the god of coordination failure. We slay Moloch by creating coordination tools and infrastructure— which is exactly what Musashi and his team have set out to do… but not in a normal boring way… in a like really really cool way… it’s a freaking spaceship combining DAOs, hangouts and cool projects all in one!
In web3, the interface really matters, as this is how we onboard more people into the space and make the abstract far more understandable and tangible. Check out more of Musashi’s project below!
New Digis joined the Web3 Gang
Some new digitals joined the gang this week as we continue to build out native cyber fashion realms.
You can start to interact with both Àwèlé, summoned by Hadeeart, and Àsá, summoned by Majestic Apparell, here and also follow them on twitter here and here.
Sub Threads
We have started to release weekly sub threads run by the Global Designer Network Purveyors. Each purveyor is releasing a weekly sub thread on Mirror where they curate and collate information from across the web3 fashion space that is specific to their particular purveyor sector, from afrofuturism design, web3 fashion media to raw apparel.
To overthrow the behemoths of this age old industry, it isn’t enough to out-trade them, we also have to out-type. The Thread Weekly and its sub-forks bring greater liquidity and volume around content as compelling currency and allows for more of the broader market to start sharing in on some of the most valuable insights as to how this industry is taking on traditional fashion and burning the virtual store houses of the old content robber barons.
Dcentral Miami
Most of the action this week has been getting ready for the upcoming Dcentral Miami / NFT Basel taking place from Nov 30th - Dec 1st and onwards…. all the GDN has put in so much work and we’ll be revealing the Miami designs tomorrow! Get ready, and if you haven’t already got tickets, you can so below:
Emma and Osumikat have also been hustling getting all the designer shipments in and setting up the exhibition spot! More photos to come!
Across the Realms
Each week every designer is releasing rich content across medium, mirror, twitter and more as they build out their realm and forge their path ahead. Make sure to stay up to date across the releases in their realm channels in the DIGITALAX discord, and check out some of the most recent releases below!
- Alterrage
- Alana
- Phoebe Heess
- Temporary Malfunktion
- Keeping Distance
Welcome New Designers!
A massively warm welcome to;
- RG
- hey! I'm an apparel product developer and writer from new york city. I currently work on socks, but used to do other knits and sweaters. I’m deeply passionate about entrepreneurship and how the future internet will impact my grandkids’ lives. Looking forward to learning as a designer and taking part in the future of digital fashion.
- Eregal
- ...And thus, I take the leap, where shall I be? Limbo or Metaverse... Cristina, aka Eregal, is a copy and translation project manager, in real life, for a luxury fashion brand. [But, in her own world, she feels at her highest when creating: poetry verse or fashion lense, in a cosmo that reunites art in all its forms, and expands in versatility.] 'The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately' - Seneca.
- Dplusgraphics
- Digital Fashion | VR | Motion Design | Sound Design | Visual Design | UX
- Rivetted
- Fashion Designer & Owner of indie fashion brand Rivetted Official
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-009— Kimono Collection was ranked highest in the Luxury sector for the iW3Fi.
- DIP-010— Stella Achenbach was voted highest for the Designer Weekly Spotlight and will be featured this week!
- DIP-011— The Italian Job by Fabeeo Breen was added to the DIGITALAX Web3 Fashion Vault.
- Global Designer Network (LIVE Snapshot Fashion Improvement Proposals)
- FIP-014— GDN Treasury Vault purchase of one of the spotlighted designer’s, Stella Achenbach’s live marketplace NFTs. Closing Dec 2nd 12pm PST.
- New GDN Member Onboarding First Vote & Purveyor Snapshot.
- Global Designer Network (Closed Proposals)
- FIP-013— Solar Storm by Fabeeo Breen was added to the GDN Web3 Fashion Vault.
Web3 Fashion Treasury Vaults
- DIGITALAX Web3 Fashion Treasury Vault. View Vault here.
- Last week The Italian Job by Fabeeo Breen was purchased and added to the DIGITALAX Vault.
- GDN Web3 Fashion Treasury Vault. View Vault here.
- Last week Solar Storm by Fabeeo Breen was purchased and added to the Global Designer Network Vault.
Upcoming Designer Spotlight
Stella Achenbach 💫 💫 💫 💫
Make sure to follow Stan on twitter as we get ready for a week of awesome designer action!
Latest FGO Mints
This week Oli3D 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.
Check Out the Best of this Week’s Indie Web3 Fashion NFTs
Designer Realms Launch: Indie Web3 Fashion Fleet
- Check out the full designer realm blueprint here and also the web3 patrons here for decentralising the buy side and opening up further strengthened value conduits for web3 fashion.
- Stay up to date with all designer realms in the DIGITALAX discord specified channels.
Key iW3Fi (indie Web3 Fashion index) Data
- GDN DAO Member Count:
- 102 (GDN Membership NFT Sent & Onboarding Complete)
- Active iWeb3 Fashion Governance Proposals:
- 4
- Open Source 1155 Pattern Mint Count:
- 513
- iWeb3 Fashion NFT Mint Count:
- 1714
- iWeb3 Fashion LIVE for Sale Count:
- 1771
- 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/
- Portrait of OSUN | by Aisha https://twitter.com/a_ainsha/status/1458835932996587527
- Kimono Collection | by Facysedated_Art https://twitter.com/Facysedated_Art/status/1462208049452564487
Spaces, Houses & Other Speaking Events
This week there will be limited spaces and clubhouses because a lot of the GDN is in Miami for NFT Basel / Dcentralcon! Keep up to date on our twitter for all of the action!
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!
- 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. The A pose FBX should now be available.
- GDN Purveyors— book your slot in the GDN public calendar for releasing your Thread Weekly iterations.
- For all designers setting up their realms please refer to the latest 3 community calls on the subject matter for immediate next steps re release, content distribution and patron set up. Community calls here.
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 members Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee and Osumikat.