The next fashion trend is clothes that don't exist

What happens in a power failure? :-)

@Prion: You become nude.

For many, the idea of buying clothes that don't exist is a conceptual leap too far.

This whole "it doesn't exist" argument is still as ridiculous as it always was.

Of course it exists, it's just in digital form. If it didn't exist you wouldn't be writing about it. In fact, you couldn't write it and I couldn't write this comment, because by that logic the entire internet doesn't exist either. Why are you paying for an internet connection to something nonexistent?

Digital != doesn't exist. It just means...digital.

People have been buying digital-only goods for a pretty long time now. Cosmetics in video games have been a huge market, even in first-person games where you almost never see your character. Extending that to yourself isn't that big a stretch.

Probably not something I would buy into, but I am not big into fashion myself either.

I think this a whole new future for fashion. Anyone with a flair for design can create clothes for the metaverse. No materials or special equipment needed. I can easily see the more successful designers branching into real-world fashion.

As with so much of this digital world my bet is this will generate more negative than positive, the world is not so slowly going bonkers LOL!!!

Another way to spend money you dont have and cant afford on clothes that do not exist. Appealing to children but anyone with any sense and a tight budget will avoid like the plague.

One more way to rip people off. So sad.

Matrix says hello millenials - so many ways to avoid the reality, interact with others in a real world, rely on real self to attract others. Bravo, COVID-19 pandemic! Make young people even more.. autistic and inept in their real interactions.

Hans Christian Andersen predicted this in 1837: 'The Emperor's (Empress') New Clothes'. But his 'influencers' were flat out swindlers and liars 'influencing' poorly educated and easily led 'followers' and their equally, if not even more, foolish 'leader'. This 'new' fashion development is, of course, somehow 'different'...

Some clever people will make money out of this. Dedicated followers of fashion will spend money on it. The rest of us will just ignore it.

This is such a rich, first world thing. People who have actual problems would never waste their money or time or something like this.

The next fashion trend is clothes that don't exist

My fellow skinny dippers have known this for centuries.

prionkingOct. 7  07:10 am JST

What happens in a power failure? :-)

> ShinkansenCabooseOct. 7  08:14 am JST

@Prion: You become nude.

You then see the emperor's new clothes!

...clothes that do not exist. Appealing to children but anyone with any sense and a tight budget will avoid like the plague.... 'The Emperor's (Empress') New Clothes'. But his 'influencers' were flat out swindlers and liars 'influencing' poorly educated and easily led 'followers' and their equally, if not even more, foolish 'leader'. This 'new' fashion development is, of course, somehow 'different'...This is such a rich, first world thing. People who have actual problems would never waste their money or time or something like this.

Sorry to bunch all the comments together, but I see widespread misunderstanding of the significance of metaverses (virtual worlds). I am anything but young, but the potential here is obvious. "Appealing to children" misses the point that metaverses are especially attractive to old and infirm people who have trouble get out of the house. In a metaverse, they can travel. meet people, conduct business, basically do anything they can do in the real world. Better yet, they can choose an avatar that is younger, better looking and better dressed than they are. Gender, appearance, race... all options are open.

This is essentially a parallel universe, but one in which people can remove handicaps (can't travel, can't walk, too old, too young, the wrong race, the wrong gender, living in a remote location). Naturally, fashion would be part of the way people express their metaverse identity.

3 dimensional holographic digital cloaking device.