On April 14th, 2020, RTFKT and digital couture house The Fabricant collaborated on a digital fashion collection titled "RenaiXance" which was a limited edition digital garment collection that released exclusively on The Dematerialized online shop on April 16th, 2021. This was RTFKT's historic first release on the Lukso blockchain. The Fabricant team designed each piece for “The future ancestors of the Metaverse.” Inspired by the new wave of fashion re-constructivists (creatives taking garments apart and reconstituting them back together) and the Renaissance period of the 1500s, the collection drew on the idea of fluidity while pushing back against fixed ideas of gender with corsets that are both archetypal and futuristic. Completing the look was RTFKT's latest sneaker design, The RenaiXance Sneaker, “where medieval and ancient aesthetics mix with a punk mentality to create a rebel spirit for the present.”
The collection included 8 unique NFTs each rich with their own folklore, based on gaming characters but remixing their aesthetic to correspond to The Fabricant’s "Pluriform" design philosophy. The NFTs included were the RTFKT Loops, Aum, Omega, Alpha, Ethereum Rings, Max Corset, Poison Bag and the RenaiXance Sneaker. The entire collection sold out in only 11 minutes.
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