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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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Megan Kaspar

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Megan Kaspar is a blockchain technology & fashion-tech investor.

Ms. Kaspar is a co-founder and Managing Director at FirstLight, a privately held digital asset, blockchain agnostic investment and incubation firm, and a founding member of Red DAO –– the world’s first digital fashion-focused DAO. Red invests in the emergent opportunities arising from dematerialized fashion and apparel trends, powered by blockchain technology. To date, Red DAO holds the most valuable fashion NFT, the Dolce & Gabbana Doge Crown purchased for 423.5 ETH.

As a leader in the 2Earn economy phenomenon, Ms. Kaspar actively advises projects and brands, assisting in implementing blockchain-based augmented reality and artificial intelligence-generated digital fashion and digital twinned products enabling wear2earn activations models.

Named “The Fashion Industry’s Greatest Disruptor” in 2022 by Haute Living in the January Miami issue, Kaspar was the first person to wear digital fashion from a luxury fashion brand (Fendi) on a publication cover.

In October 2021, she was the first person to wear NFT digital fashion on live broadcast TV during a Yahoo! Finance segment.

Nine years before the current wave of interest in blockchain, cryptocurrencies and NFTs, Ms. Kaspar began her career with early investments in bitcoin. Her investment results on behalf of family offices, separately managed accounts and her firm’s proprietary investment capital have been extraordinary.

Ms. Kaspar is on the advisory board of Miami Fashion Week and has consulted with top fashion brands and companies, Fortune 500 companies and top political figures from both sides of the aisle. She has been a headline speaker at dozens of the top blockchain conferences around the world.

Megan Kaspar wearing contactless & cyber BALA crafted using Tribute Brand Premium Fitting Service™

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