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Now Runway: Givenchy Celebrates Pride Month With Metaverse Exhibition
Welcome back to Now Runway, where we report to you from the frontlines of the digital fashion and luxury revolution. As Paris Fashion Week creates headlines and speculation — mostly around Pharrell Williams’ debut show for Louis Vuitton — we are happy to report that IRL Fashion Weeks do not slow down the digital fashion cycle. Here’s what you missed in the last week, from Givenchy Beauty celebrating Pride Month on Spatial to Nike teaming up with Fortnite. Givenchy Beauty Givenchy Beauty is celebrating Pride Month by unveiling an exhibition in the metaverse called the “Givenchy Beauty Pride Gallery.” Hosted […]
Midjourney 5.2: A Guide to the Latest Tools and Features
On June 22, Midjourney announced the rollout of version 5.2 of its text-to-image AI model via Twitter. The latest update to the program since the company announced the release of V5.1 in May, V5.2 comes with some fun updates and toys that AI art lovers are already experimenting with in highly creative ways. The upgrade can produce some seriously impressive results, but like any tool, it works best when you have an idea of its capabilities and limits. If you’re unfamiliar with how to use Midjourney in general, head over to our guide on the image generation program first before […]
How ClownVamp Is Bringing Queer Visibility to Web3
Artists who use AI tools like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney often catch flack for producing work that is somehow cold, unfeeling, or lacking a distinctly “human” touch. The great irony buried just beneath the surface of this critique is twofold; first in that it glosses over the necessarily collaborative nature of such tools. But the second rebuttal to that kind of decontextualized condemnation contains an almost poetic paradox: after all, the machine learning processes that form the foundations of these programs are part of a field of study that is specifically geared toward replicating human intelligence. In other words, reproducing […]
Now Runway: Puma Introduces Black Station 2 Featuring New Explorable Worlds
Welcome back to Now Runway, where we report to you from the frontlines of the digital fashion and luxury revolution. We’re eagerly awaiting all things Paris Fashion Week. For those attending IRL, please report back on how authentic the pigeon shit looks on the newest networked product courtesy of the gmoney x Jeff Staple collab for 9dcc. Credit: gmoney/Jeff Staple In the meantime, here’s what you may have missed this past week: Fewocious and Adidas collaborating on a mint pass and physical shoe release, Puma upping their metaverse game, a DressX collab with TikTok sensation, Mackenzie Turner on Roblox, and […]
Machi Big Brother Files Defamation Suit Against ZachXBT
Today, well-known NFT trader and crypto figure Jeffrey Huang, who goes by the Web3 pseudonym Machi Big Brother, announced he had filed a lawsuit against on-chain internet sleuth ZachXBT. Huang accused the latter of “publishing and maliciously promoting an article that falsely presented [Huang] as a criminal that had embezzled millions of dollars of cryptocurrency and manipulated markets” and refusing to take down the post and associated tweet when asked. The article Huang is referring to in the lawsuit is entitled “22,000 ETH Embezzled and Over Ten Projects Failed: The Story of Machi Big Brother (Jeff Huang)” and was published […]
Ripple Calls for Investigation Into Former SEC Director Amid Controversy
Ripple’s Chief Legal Officer, Stuart Alderoty, has called for an investigation into former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) director Bill Hinman. The call comes in the wake of the court-ordered release of a trove of documents by the SEC, which has been embroiled in a legal dispute with Ripple since 2020. The documents, which were recently unsealed by a judge’s order, reveal conflicting thoughts and opinions within the SEC regarding the regulation of the crypto industry. They largely pertain to a speech delivered by Hinman in June of 2018, in which he stated that Ethereum (ETH) should not be […]
Now Runway: Cult & Rain’s Virtual Space Station, Louis Vuitton’s New NFTs, and More
Welcome back to Now Runway, where we report to you from the frontlines of the digital fashion and luxury revolution. 9DCC, the digital fashion house from gmoney and streetwear pioneer Jeff Staple tease out a networked product to be revealed at Paris Fashion Week. DRAUP and Nicolas Sassoon give us this week’s more affordable collector’s item: an augmented reality cape available exclusively on Zora. Read on to see what luxury item Louis Vuitton may let you purchase for €39,000, how to join the quickly growing cult of P00LS to find the most coveted sneakers, and what else you missed this […]
A Guide to Opepen: Jack Butcher’s Pepe-Themed Web3 Experiment
Web3 has no shortage of “crossover episodes,” moments in crypto art culture where projects, memes, and personalities bleed into and influence each other in significant ways. Beeple’s daily commentary on the NFT space is a good example of this, but he is far from the only influential voice turning existing trends into something fresh and new, whether that’s a simple observation or a fully-fledged Web3 project. One of the most enduring symbols in the crypto world is Pepe the Frog, the iconic 2005 cartoon character created by Matt Furie. Since its creation, Pepe the Frog has become one of the […]
Crypto.com Suspends US Institutional Service As SEC Scrutiny Rises
On Friday, June 9, Crypto.com, the Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange, announced the suspension of its institutional exchange services in the United States, according to a statement from the company. The decision, set to take effect starting June 21, 2023, is primarily attributed to the lackluster demand from institutional customers in the prevailing market scenario. Institutional clients, typically large, accredited entities with substantial investment capacities, have been the target audience for Crypto.com’s institutional service. However, the current market landscape, most recently led by stringent regulatory scrutiny and volatile conditions, has led to a decline in demand from these institutional entities. Credit: Crypto.com […]
Exclusive: Foundation Announces Dynamic NFT Pricing Feature
The NFT marketplace Foundation has launched Dynamic Pricing, a new, automated feature on the platform meant to simplify pricing for creators, according to information shared exclusively with nft now. Dynamic Pricing leverages a Rebate Dutch Auction mechanism, a pricing model designed by Foundation to help creators navigate the complex and often intimidating process of pricing their creations. Credit: Foundation Greater control and transparency Appropriately estimating the price of an NFT can be tricky as a creator in Web3; if the price is too high, it could result in sluggish or (in some cases) no sales at all. Conversely, setting the […]