![]() ![]() I am very excited to work and create with such an innovative team.” - Takashi Murakami, artist We started chatting and came to love each other’s work. “I have been very interested in NFTs and their potential, and I happened to come across the RTFKT team’s work on Instagram. Considering the surge of interest for this initial non-release (the highest bid for Murakami.Flower #0000 was over $350,000), his official NFT debut is set to give the project wings. Notably, too, Murakami emerged earlier this year with 108 Murakami.Flowers NFTs for sale on OpenSea before suddenly pulling them off the market to “reexamine” his approach. Clone X avatars, then, represent the kind of cultural currency that would appeal to hypebeasts, crypto art buyers, and collectors alike. ![]() ![]() Both parties come backed by passionate followings and are veterans in the hype ecosystem: the former once self-described as “the new age Supreme for a digital audience,” while the latter remains a bankable icon in contemporary art and a frequent collaborator within street fashion. Quite simply, Clone X, with its pairing of RTFKT and Murakami, is bound to send the profile and value of NFT avatars skywards. They’ve also fetched tidy sums: in June, a single CryptoPunk sold for $11.75 million at Sotheby’s Natively Digital sale, before 107 Bored Apes raked in $24.4 million at the auction house’s Ape In! online sale.Ĭlone X’s first 10,000 avatars will be made available in an exclusive 48-hour pre-sale for existing RTFKT collectors, before the rest are released to the public. The spark for NFT avatars arrived with Larva Labs’ CryptoPunks in 2017, a project that included 10,000 singular pixelated characters, and has been fueled by recent releases including Hashmasks, Meebits (also by Larva Labs), and Bored Ape Yacht Club.īecause they’ve been widely deployed as, well, profile pictures, NFT avatars have spread widely (and wildly) across social media platforms from Twitter to Discord, growing in popularity as a marker of digital identity across virtual environments. Think of them as digital profile pictures - images containing a character with traits or attributes that have been randomly generated via algorithm, making each unique. All avatars will also have a special Murakami Drip property defined on the blockchain. They will be full-3D models, which means buyers will receive 3D files that they can use in NFT-based games, Zoom meetings, or any other activity in the metaverse. Images: RTFKT StudiosĬlone X’s 20,000 avatars will carry special traits and designs, including eyes, mouths, helmets, and clothes, generated through a randomization process. Visionary partners and designers, Nataliya Grimberg, Ready Player Me, DRESSX, CENTURY 21® Stores, The Immersive Kind Kadine James & Enza Rotolo, STYLE Protocol, HONEY, Alkali, Gravity Layer x Jivomir D., Unstitched, Sara Lisa Vogl, IZY, Artsies Collective, Cultivate with #CloneX avatars by RTFKT, ISG Metaverse with MUGLER tribute collection, have created #avatars and virtual clothing that are not just visually stunning, but also functional and interactive.The project’s 20,000 avatars will feature a random yet unique combination of traits and designs created by Takashi Murakami. □ From #MixedReality runway shows to #DigitalFashion pop-up shops, the #metaverse is providing new opportunities for fashion enthusiasts to explore and express their virtual identities. It features a variety of NFT #avatars (including my own) by the most incredible digital designers, as well as their showrooms in separate mini worlds that you can visit in Virtual Reality! □□□ Ready to be transported into the future of fashion?Ĭome explore our magnificent virtual destination, the Fashion World in Somnium Space, is created by award-winning Atrium Architecture and Dearch.Space.
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