Fashion opera to open Metaverse Fashion Week
Florence Lockheart
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
The latest fashion opera by Scottish composer Alastair White will premiere on 28 March in the Metaverse's Dragon City
Scottish composer Alastair White will open the second Metaverse Fashion Week 2023 (MVFW 23) on 28 March with the premiere of his new fashion-opera, #CAPITAL. The first convergence of fashion, opera and the metaverse, the premiere will take place within the Metaverse Labs’ platform Dragon City, run by Decentraland, the largest user owned and operated virtual social world.
The work will be performed within the House of Synergos, a bespoke virtual venue designed by Sybarite architects. The performance will showcase digital fashion by CHENPENG, the brand behind the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games opening ceremony costumes, curated by MVFW 23 ambassador and White’s collaborator, Gemma A. Williams.
Sybarite architects have designed House of Synergos for the premiere (Image courtesy of Sybarite)
Sybarite co-founder Simon Mitchell, said: ‘Designing an opera house in the metaverse immediately appealed to my sense of all things avant-garde… This is a place where architecture, music and fashion come together in perfect synergy to interact and explore the possibilities of living in another reality.’
Created by White and Williams, fashion-opera takes a mathematical approach to the combination of fashion, music, drama and dance, placing each discipline on equal footing at the centre of this new genre. #CAPITAL tracks the progress of human exchange from the first time a symbol was used to represent an object, through to gold bars, bank notes and NFTs. The opera will be performed by soprano Kelly Poukens and dancer Zara Sands with sound production by Pieter Franssen.
The premiere follows the inaugural Metaverse Fashion Week presented in early 2022 which saw Decentraland host over 108,000 people with works presented by fashion brands including Dolce & Gabbana, Tommy Hilfiger, Selfridges, Guo Pei and Paco Rabanne. #CAPITAL fits within the curatorial theme for this year’s MVFW, ‘Future Heritage,’ which aims to connect traditional fashion designers with the next generation of creators.
