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Tribute Brand

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Founded in 2020, Tribute Brand is the world’s first direct-to-consumer digital fashion label. Tribute Brand creates both virtual and physical garments — including AR outfits, digital avatars, NFC-enabled clothing, and downloadable 3D assets for creators.

Tribute Brand designs have been worn by Charli XCX, Kim Petras, and others, and they have collaborated with fashion houses such as Jean Paul Gaultier, Sacai, and Carolina Herrera.

Vision & Approach

Inspired by video games like The Sims and GTA, Tribute Brand embraces inclusivity and sustainability. Their digital fashion is genderless, size-free, and waste-free. Physical collections are designed with a focus on minimal or zero waste.

Recognition

Tribute Brand has been featured on the Dazed 100 and Vogue Business Top 100 Innovators lists, recognized for reimagining fashion across digital and physical worlds.

Projects

PFS-AI™ — TOOL FOR DIGITAL DRESSING IN TRIBUTE TO™ COLLECTION

UNIFORMA — ZERO-WASTE GARMENTS ENGINEERED WITH CROATIAN UTILITY FACTORIES, DESIGNED FOR FUNCTION AND CONNECTED WITH TRIBUTE TOUCH™ NFC TECH

ODDS — ALGORITHM-DESIGNED, ONE-OF-ONE, ZERO-WASTE SWEATERS BY TRIBUTE BRAND × CHROMIE SQUIGGLE × WASTE YARN PROJECT

PUNK — CONNECTED PHYSICAL TRACKSUIT AND VIRTUAL PET

TRIBUTE BRAND X CAROLINA HERRERA

TRIBUTE BRAND X JEAN PAUL GAULTIER X SACAI

MIXED REALITY SHOW AT LOS ANGELES FASHION WEEK 2024 IN COLLABORATION WITH STYPE.TV

AR COCKTAIL FILTERS PAIRED WITH ONE-OF-A-KIND, ZERO-WASTE ODDS SWEATERS, A COLLABORATION WITH ILEGALA CLUB

TRIBUTE TAVERN — FORTNITE EXPERIENCE AND PARIS FASHION WEEK PARTY

CREATIVE DIRECTOR — A COLLABORATION BY TRIBUTE BRAND AND DISCORD COMMUNITY, POWERED BY GENERATIVE AI

ROLE PLAY — A COLLECTION OF GAMING SKINS FOR DECENTRALAND

PEPA PARIS — AN AR COLLECTION OF VIRTUAL PETS AND ACCESSORIES

PUNK STORE — VIRTUAL GAME AND STOREFRONT FOR THE PUNK PROJECT, BUILT IN MONA

THE REAL DEAL — EXPLORING FASHION’S FUNCTION IN ITS EVOLUTION FROM PHYSICAL TO VIRTUAL

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Generative Fashion

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Generative fashion is the aspect of fashion created by scripts, raw texts, images, videos, or other data using generative models such as AI. This approach allows for the creation of unique and diverse designs by leveraging the capabilities of new technologies to explore and produce fashion beyond traditional methods.

Generative fashion opens the door to co-creating with the customer but also to create unique limited-edition product drops such as collaborations between two brands.

In use

In 2023 Tribute Brand launched project ODDS using a generative script of Chromie Squiggle to build an online generator to produce 1of1 generative sweaters.

Sustainability

Generative fashion can design variations without having to produce expensive samples, vastly accelerating the design process. This efficiency reduces costs and speeds up the development and iteration of new fashion concepts.

ODDS generative sweaters

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