Young designers, web3, metaverse: what will the future of fashion look like?

If the year 2023 has just begun, fashion is already dressing the future. Men’s fashion week will take place in Paris from 17 to 22 January, followed directly by the haute couture fashion week from 23 to 26 January, before the women’s prêt-à-porter autumn-winter 2023-2024 show from 27 February to 7 March. . And because it always wants to be one step ahead, the fashion industry already offers several services for web 3.0, or web3 for friends.

Unlike web 2.0, known as social media, web3 is designed to be decentralized, taking advantage of blockchain technology. If all this is nonsense to you, we will take the time to explain all these metaverse, blockchain and NFT stories in JT mode January 10, 2023with a specialist in the subject, Christelle Bakima and the young designer Grégory Assad.

Grégory Assad and Christelle Bakima, guests of JT Mode on January 10, 2023

After two years of training at the Institut Français de la Mode, two internships in fashion houses, then a sabbatical year working in ready-to-wear to be closer to customers, Grégory Assad launched his own brand. . From his graduation project he drew a first Pre-Fall 2021 collection of 34 looks that immediately made a strong impression. They are inspired by the Madras fabric of its Creole origins, by the photos of Bamako’s golden youth photographed by Malick Sidibé in the 1970s or by the sculptures of the visual artist John Chamberlain. Immediately immortalized by the famous fashion documentary filmmaker Loïc Prigent who contributed to its media exposure, this first mixed collection has already dressed the top Alton Mason, the influencer and actress Paola Locatelli, or even the singer Wizkid. And now the 23-year-old Martinican designer is starting to tease his new spring-summer 2023 collection…

Passionate about the creative industries and the way they portray our societies, Christelle Bakima shares her vision of the world with authenticity and sincerity through her Instagram account @chrisavantdani. She writes, podcasts, directs and creates events: she likes to invest and create spaces that bring people together and do them good. Head of web3 communication, after studying at the French Fashion Institute, you teach there how web3 transforms fashion. You dedicated your thesis to the issue of black models in French fashion and what you say about the condition of black women in France.