Home Fashion Explosion
by Phoenix, HSM team writer
In the past few months, Home has seen an explosion of fashion styles that have surely left the developers breathless in their efforts to bring us their best designs. We have been hit with the timeless fashion classics Lockwood serves us, to the daring dark delights of Konami and Granzella, with their Gothic lines, not to mention the fabulous offerings of steampunk from nDreams. We are now seeing these familiar fashions being challenged for the plentiful Home users’ dollars by some of the most coy and tasteful collections from Codeglue and VEEMEE, JAM Games and Game Mechanics. I wonder — who do you wear? Which of these developers is your favorite for classical, edgy, or just casual, sustainable wear?
To the masses of Home, keeping up with this fashion whirlwind has been a monumental task. There are a few fashion conscious clubs and groups in Home, and more then a few articles to find here and there. I have been unable to keep up with the many offerings and have turned on occasion to a place where I know the pulse of Home fashion is kept — that is Twilight Touch.
Many of our readers have seen the machinima produced by Twilight Touch’s founder and HSM writer/contributor Jin Lovelace. These videos have kept pace with and showcased fashions by Home’s developers in a timely and engaging format. This weekend will see all these developers mentioned in a first for a Home grown fashionista — a live fashion show offering. Home always has and will continue to strive to bring the most innovative offerings to its users.
This one-of-a-kind first will feature the fashions put together by Jin and brought to Home by its fashion-conscious designers. It will be interesting to see this show carried by Twitch TV, streaming live. This fashion show will be held in Home, of course as the fashions are from Home. The models, also from Home, will bring them to life on the runway.
Lets face it — Home is not your average virtual world, so why should a fashion show be average? In fact Home is a one of a kind virtual world. It is still the only virtual world on a gaming console to date — a first. Though word has it something else is coming, which will be another first. Home is the only virtual world that has developers that keep a close connection to the users, so close that it isn’t unheard of to see a developer actually playing some of the Home freemium games, or creating or a Q and A session live in Home, where just for the fun of it free rewards and codes are given to attendees. Nor is it unusual to see a developer just hanging out on Home with the masses.
When I first heard of this live broadcast fashion show from Home I was in disbelief. But when I thought about it, it’s not really a stretch. Home once again will have a first. So if you like being a part of Home history — and of course you do, since you are a part of history if you’re on Home in the first place — do yourself a favor and be present Saturday the 25th of May for this fashion first. See the stunning fashion offerings by Home’s progressive developers as laid out by Twilight Touch. And, who knows — you could bag yourself some of the rewards on offer.
May 24th, 2013 by Phoenix | 7 comments
Phoenix writes poetry and is a photography enthusiast, along with writing for HomeStation Magazine. She is currently studying for a BFA in Creative Writing and BA with concentration in Photography. psn ID phoenixstorm21
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Fashion in social mmos is really old and home is just the same as other social mmos and is proberly less diverse than other social mmos because others allow they users to create they own clothes to sell. Imvu and second life have hundreds of thousands of items Ive made a tshirt in IMVU with a picture I took in home on front of it but you can go much deeper. But they are all the same in regards to its more dressing up a perfect size doll than actually finding clothes that match different sizes, weights etc etc. We cant change our hair height and skin colour every time we change an outfit in reality. Its something that all social mmos suffer with because its a break from reality, so if a male feels that he wants to dress a perfectly sized female in clothes that match, thats why these things are so popular and the world has a lot worse things out there.
Thank you for your comment Gray.
With regards to dressing up a perfect sized doll, as a female I did that with Barbie. I couldn’t do more then mix and match her clothing as they were already prefabbed. I never felt my imagination was stymied because of this however. I had many hours of great play. I have been in second life and imvu. I find they are different then Home and I am glad of the differences I see. I for one would like to be able to wear and design my own clothing here in Home as designing is one of my things.But it has not happened for me, it still does not stop me from dreaming an alternate reality. Neither will the non-reality of Home cause me to stop playing or imagining.
Your comment intrigues me.
What I’ve found, from my personal experiences, is that the first aforementioned MMOs are pretty popular on the PC due to it’s diversity--to be it music, fashion, even on how you design your own items, just as you said.
Here on Home, I see the world vastly different than the PC social MMOs. Granted, we live in a “perfect” society where the terms “beautiful” associates with anorexic, thin bodies and big hips and big butts equals a shot on a BET music video or just another popular “Twerk” video found on Youtube.
But the baffling, yet intriguing, line….
“It’s something that all social mmos suffer with because its a break from reality.”
I don’t know about you but this site has a diverse library of articles that “breaks away from reality”. Reality is what’s real, not real to you. What you feel, what moves you, what inspires you, what tickles your senses is something that’s not only call “sense” but “reality” as well. Is it a suffering issue? No evidence points to it being no.
Sorry I’ll explain that line better lol, but I think Norse said it really, social MMOs are about luxury play, a break from reality, when I say suffer, I cant really glorify the fact that social MMOs promote the perfect size etc Why home has that body size adjustment is totally pointless as it makes you look pot bellied and none of the clothes really work well with it.
From the few months I’ve spent on home, I have found it to be more challenging to try to establish a sense of style that DOESN’T borderline the obscene, stereotypical, age-inappropriate, or outlandish AND allows me to retain some aspects of who I am IRL.
Jin’s sense of style, eye for fashion, creativity and thematic elements is what Home developers should strive for in clothing AND user design, and the more we embrace this idea the more credibility we gain. What Jin presents is genuine uniqueness.
As a final thought…what difference does our body type make if Home developers believe we could care less about fashion, and promote fashion-less junk like pumpkin heads and pixelated zombie bodies?
Ultimately, one of the key drivers for a social MMO experience is the concept of relatable luxury: the idea of having a bit of imaginative indulgence and *play* which, as adults, we are trained to bleed out of our lives once we leave childhood.
Home is play. Whether it be traditional gaming or the meta-gaming of social interaction, Home is play. And fashion, like estate decoration or dancing or anything else, is one way for people to play.