The British Fashion Council (BFC) has announced a completely new category as part of The Fashion Awards 2021: the first-ever Fashion Award for Metaverse Design exclusively with Roblox, featuring cSapphire as the first winner. This new award honors a digital fashion designer who pushes the boundaries and exemplifies brilliance in the metaverse’s digital fashion design.
the award was given to cSapphire, a virtual designer who worked with Gucci on the fashion house’s collaboration with the virtual channel.
2021 Nominees:
cSapphire
cSapphire previously has sold over 2.5 million copies of virtual clothes.
GENKROCO
GENKROCO is a creator who specialises in virtual accessories and hairstyles for avatars, particularly known for stylised hairstyles. Their most purchased hairstyle has over 2 million sales alone, with their full store accumulating over 30 million sales.
inkwaves
inkwaves is a 3D designer who uses creativity to inspire their digital fashion creations, mixing modern trends with enchanted and mystical themes. They’ve created one of the most favourited UGC items in the Roblox Marketplace and describe the opportunity to work as a designer in the metaverse as “infinite imagination.”
Reverse_Polarity
Reverse_Polarity is a 3D designer with over 17 million combined sales of their creations on the platform, making them one of the top sellers of virtual items on Roblox. Having discovered Roblox just two weeks after its public release in 2006, they are one of the longest active users of the platform.
Sparklings
Sparklings is a 2D designer and joined the platform in 2009. Their design aesthetic is ever-changing with recent collections ranging in inspiration from high end designs to the fairy kei aesthetic.
Source:Business Wire, Itsnicechat
