WHO WILL YOU BE WHEN YOU CAN BE ANYBODY AND ANYTHING AT THE SAME TIME?
„If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.“
When it comes to the Metaverse, explaining it can be challenging because it exists in a unique way. It’s both everywhere and nowhere. However, we are already present in this evolving space, which is being created while you try to comprehend this sentence.
While the full realization of the Metaverse might be a few years away, we are preparing ourselves to define our identities in this brand new virtual reality. Within these persistent virtual spaces, we interact, transact, and experience.
In the real world, our identity is our most valuable asset—it defines who we are. Online, we sometimes act the same as we do offline, but often there are multiple versions of ourselves. We have different names, share different content, and adopt various avatars to represent us.
In the Metaverse, we exist beyond the limitations of physics and boundaries. All options are available, and the lines of identity are already blurring as we embrace broader notions of gender. In this realm, we have the opportunity to represent ourselves as entirely new beings.
The word “avatar,” derived from Sanskrit, means “descent” and signifies the manifestation or incarnation of a deity released on earth.
When it comes to the Metaverse, explaining it can be challenging because it exists in a unique way. It’s both everywhere and nowhere. However, we are already present in this evolving space, which is being created while you try to comprehend this sentence.
While the full realization of the Metaverse might be a few years away, we are preparing ourselves to define our identities in this brand new virtual reality. Within these persistent virtual spaces, we interact, transact, and experience.
In the real world, our identity is our most valuable asset—it defines who we are. Online, we sometimes act the same as we do offline, but often there are multiple versions of ourselves. We have different names, share different content, and adopt various avatars to represent us.
In the Metaverse, we exist beyond the limitations of physics and boundaries. All options are available, and the lines of identity are already blurring as we embrace broader notions of gender. In this realm, we have the opportunity to represent ourselves as entirely new beings.
The word “avatar,” derived from Sanskrit, means “descent” and signifies the manifestation or incarnation of a deity released on earth.
In the metaverse we exist beyond physics and boundaries. All options are on the table and identity lines are already blurring as we embrace broader notions of gender. In the metaverse we could represent ourselves as an entirely new species.
“Avatar”, as defined in Sanskrit, means “descent” and signifies the manifestation or incarnation of a deity released on earth.
What word would be a better fit for describing how we’ll self-create to become the goddesses and gods of our own imagination in the never-ending search for our truer identity? Especially, when the line between physical and digital is blurred and identities become more and more tricky. However, avatars are not a means of escapism from our reality. On the contrary, they are an augmentation. Avatars extend ourselves in the virtual space and as we transcend physicality, it also means that we transcend self-judgment.
For the first time there will be a medium where we will no longer need to decide whether a garment will flatter our physical existence and we are no longer tethered to genetics. In the metaverse fashion will be for the first time a true means to transmit emotion within this new realm of existence.
If the metaverse lives up to its hype we will be beyond gender, beyond age, beyond skin. We will try out new experiences, new bodies, new ideas, new ideals and ultimately new identities.
Embrace the opportunities and at the same time mind the gap between finding your inner voice and making the metaverse an unhealthy space of projections — searching for the “perfect” version that could intensify already existing distortions. Always remind yourself that it’s not about being perfect, but about being true to yourself — and what could be closer to your true identity than to never stop exploring and experiencing what a truer version of you could be like?
Photography: Tarek Mawad
Fashion Editor: Neslihan Değerli
H&MU: Chrissie Moissl
Light Operator: Birk Alisch
Looks: Prada Linea Rossa
Casting: Hendrik Simon
Production: Enlil Isik via Avec Nous
