I Wore Digital Clothes For A Week
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- Опубліковано 10 чер 2024
- HELLO FRIENDS!! So, a couple of months ago I got this ad on facebook for "digital fashion" - which, as a weird fashion lover, piqued my interest. So, I decided to use the DressX digital fashion service and "wear" digital clothes every day for a week to see how it turned out -- and then I posted those pictures to instagram to see what you all thought of my virtual digs! Which outfit from this week was your favorite?
You can check out DressX's website here!
dressx.com/
Quick note -- these looks that we bought are not NFTs, and most of DressX's looks are not NFTs -- (the ones in the app are also not NFTs) -- they seem to dipping their toes into that space, but for now it's mainly just photoshopping individual images!
Also, the shots in the art museum were taken in the middle of the summer, when mask mandates were lifted!
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HELLO FRIENDS!! i hope you guys enjoy our romp into digital fashion!! honestly, even though i started off thinking it was kind of dumb -- i ended up liking some of the looks we ended up with 👀 lol don't kill me. what do you guys think of our digital looks?? also, just to clarify -- these looks that we bought are *not* NFTs, and most of dressx's looks are not NFTs -- they seem to dipping their toes into that space, but for now it's mainly just photoshopping individual images! xoxo, saf
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Hiii
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Seems so cool to me honestly, thanks for all the content you :)
This was such a cool video
Why their photoshop is so bad, tho? For a paid service it should be much better 🤔 What you did here was a public service, now we know it's not worth the investment yet
The lighting in the pictures isn't exactly right. I feel like they should ask for a panorama of the environment you're taking photos in: in order to get better lighting and reflections on the clothes.
Too few ping-pong balls for real-time, I'm betting. And, they're never going to get a true skin tight look at this level. It's always going to look like something stretched over a plastic mannequin. That ping-pong ball technology is desperately going to need an upgrade.
@@minipop1032 They are a long way away from matching lighting to the environment. I just watched how VFX experts do that over on the Corridor channel, and it's a labor intensive process involving multiple stages of captures. It's just not going to happen in the next decade.
That said, the flouncy stuff looks pretty good, at least at the places where you expect to be flowing away from the body.
Why don't people use the actual word "though"?
@@englishatheart why don't people use the actual words "do not"?
As a professional retoucher, these guys did a piss poor job of the photoshopping. I'm actually surprised people were fooled by any of it.
As someone who did 3 years of photoshop in high school, I COULD DO BETTER.
especially the final dress? the texture on the chest is so flat and low rez what the heck
as a person w just eyes, it looks very obviously photoshopped
For me the first one wasn’t too too bad (I still could see that it was photoshoped) but after that it became more and more obvious…I do understand tho people saying it looked good in the sense that if she did have the real clothes it’d be cute but the editing itself was awful 🥴
They didn’t even do any shadows. And the sharp edges hurt my eyes
As a 3D artist, I find it really interesting how many people didn’t see right through the outfits right away, since the photoshop jobs weren’t bad for the price paid, just….. not very good in terms of consistency and lighting. To me they all looked fake from a mile away, but not necessarily awful, just strange.
The thing with that is like, if you don't come into it knowing there's photoshop involved then it's just like there's something weird here but Idk what it is
I think on social media people are wont to overlook shoddy/ unprofessional photoshop since everyone edits the photos they post. But yeah as a graphic designer i can totally tell especially with the lighting angles and shadows, and the different resolutions between the photos and the 3D render. The shadows and blending the edges of the render into the photo are just atrocious
@@Rose-jz6sx definitely! Of course that happens with many people. It’s just easier to spot specific reasons why it looks “off” when you’ve done similar things yourself. :)
@@k80_ oh yeah, I totally agree XD I wonder what sort of pipeline they have for all of this, professional editing is expensive and time consuming, I don’t know how these price points are lining up with a big company involved, either o.O
I think there’s a possibility that people who are online more consume so many edited images it just doesn’t occur to them to question things as much anymore-There’s a possibility they know that everything is retouched to some level or another, so they just assumed that it was a bad retouch job as opposed to an actual fake outfit. I think there’s also a culture of it being almost rude or mean to point out when someone you like is retouching their photos, which might keep people from saying something.
I was pretty disturbed by some of the photoshop jobs though-it worries me that this company is contracting out the editing to some kind of digital sweatshop where an artist gets paid 2 cents an image or something. That’s the only reason I can think some of these would have been done in such a mediocre fashion.
That would also match generally with how we know the tech industry treats creatives-They love to middleman between us and our customers so that they can make most of the money and deliver a suboptimal experience to people on both ends. (Edited for spelling error).
i dont know whats more frightening the idea that safiya spent actual money for these god awful photoshops or that the majority of her instagram audience didnt realize the god awful photoshop
As an artist, it kills me that they didn't shade the clothing or Saf's legs/body to match the newly-draped clothes. It's definitely contributing to the fake appearance for most of these.
EDIT: Stop replying to this. It's old. I don't need criticism. If you don't like my comment, just ignore it.
hopefully that will be fixed as they work on it more-
This is EXACTLY what i was thinking of.. I saw it instantly and I am just kind of mediocre in skill. It is pretty bad photoshopping imo. Looks like a rushed job to me. Or maybe done by people not very familiar with the surrounding tones, lighting and shadow.
They should shade it to match the surroundings. Shadows aren’t just black
I think as an artist everything kills you
FRRR THIS IS WHAT I THINK ABOUT. Like, why don't they give at least som shading to safiya's skin, or whatever 😩
$1000 for a virtual dress... it better come with friends or something
I’d be friends with anyone who wore that outfit tbh
Yeah I need those
Virtual friends 🥰
@@astrokitten9323 perfect :D
@@catlvr-kg9ol Maybe you can buy a digital character. How shallow and dumb.
This is scaring me.
Sometimes I think people forget that Instagram is an accessory to our lives not the basis.
This hit it right on the head. This is a symptom of how there's more effort into looking happy than actually being happy.
Can we please talk about how harmful NFTs are for the environment and how the fashion is preying on consumer’s lack of knowledge to sell these products??
I don't think these are NFTs (or at least were sold to Safiya as NFTs).
@@isabellamorris7902 What Safiya bought was not an nft, they are talking about when she mentioned it
can you explain it better? I don't understand why NFTs would be bad for environments, since it's virtual
@@MariaPaula-uw3ds they way they are bought uses the same amount of electricity a house would use in a day.
@@MariaPaula-uw3ds ua-cam.com/video/YQ_xWvX1n9g/v-deo.html
It’d be nice if normal brand websites had this VR feature to “try on” clothes before buying to see if a style would actually look good on you before buying. It could probably reduce shipping waste and the returns conundrum where returned items just sit in a warehouse somewhere (think Amazon…)
I really like this idea. Of course you will still run into the issue of the item simply not being made the way you thought in some instances, but likely far less often. I would really love some new pants, for instance, but at 4'11" buying pants in the actual store is just as much of a struggle as online.
@@411blah411 Are you also 4'11" or does your name stand for the actual term 411? The former would be such a coincidence.
Amazon does have this SORT OF already, for like TV's and some furniture and such, so it's not too far fetched tbh
Yes!!!! 100% agree!!! ✨🖤✨ I love this idea!!!
fast fashion sites like shein and fashion nova would benefit greatly with this
Why don’t we just start a new era where we all learn how to sew, and upcycle clothes into bonkers new fashion we ourselves invent? 😏
sewing is harddd!!!
@@jester42069 but extremely worth it, I'd say
What a great idea! We'd be like the punks in the 70s/80s, but even weirder!!
lol that’d be hilarious 11/10 would participate
What if ur blind deaf paralyzed and have no Limbs? How will U SEW
"Cheaper digital versions of clothes!"
The clothes: $35 for a single dress.
Actual cheap dresses are 30 bucks nowadays.... they must buy some expensive rich people brands in the most luxurious places of new york to think 30 bucks is "cheaper"
@@LilyUnicorn If they're new, yes. But at least you get to wear them more than once.
that’s the price for a pretty cheap dress nowadays tho. Some of the clothes on this website is like 200 bucks tho. maybe that’s a better example?
SMH. These people literally make it into a whole different thing on its own.
$35 for a single *PHOTO* of a dress
I can't believe we've actually arrived at "digital clothes for your Internet persona because what you seem like on social media is so much more important than real life" stage of dystopia already.
These are the exact words to describe the feeling of dread I had watching the video
Absolutely. Dread is the word.
Word.
It's not that social media is more important than real life sometimes it's just for the fun of it lol
@@Juanmaligno if it was just for fun it wouldn't cost 30-1000 dollars.
Once we they have the digital fashion line for pets we'll have to do part 2 with Crusty.
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I need this in my life
Pls put iced/cold coffee in the face mask maker (Eve) 🥰
ok but i still can’t get over how perfectly and effortlessly photogenic saf is
13:13 the music fitting with the way she's speaking is so satisfying
I'm a digital artist and I have to say; I hate this entire concept, lol.
What it entails is that these companies hire someone to make a 3D Model of a dress or outfit that they cause edit in a 3D software such as Blender/etc and "form it" to you. They come in all sizes because they can easily be deformed in these programs. Once the dress is shaped to your photo, someone takes that crop and brings it into photoshop and they edit it on to the model in the photo, and from the looks of it, they're not very good at it. They don't even account for lighting/atmosphere or even add shadowing to make the fabric appear is if it's actually on your body; it's just a very basic rush job in Photoshop that you get to pay for. This is why actual digital artists exist; because we have the ability and knowledge to make a "photoshop job" have some layer of believability. While I respect the creativity in this Hussle, it's still pretty much a scam in my honest opinion. While yes, someone is taking the time to design and render these outfits, in the end it's for the sake of giving you a very lazy product that you could probably ask your teenage kids to do for you and get something equally as believable.
Totally. They make you feel like you're buying the flashy fashion, but what you're actually purchasing is a digitally altered photo of yourself, and that product appears to be rather sub-par.
zayummmm shitting on teenagers smh i see how it is😔
I totally agree! none of the photos looked realistic at all, and it bugged me to no end that she kept saying they're so realistic even when i can see it from a tiny thumbnail and KNOW its photoshopped on badly. its so bad i really hope this isnt what fashion turns into
@@Rubarbleh Nah, you misread me; I was saying most teenagers are probably better at photoshop than the companies she paid. The average teen knows far more about photo editing/etc than older generations. I said that people would be better off paying their teenagers to do this because they'd do a better job 😂
As a digital artist shouldn’t you be in on this too? This can be profitable for your line of work. I don’t understand why you creat digital art and hate photo bashing simultaneously
this concept is absolutely horrifying in all contexts EXCEPT for those girls on tiktok that call themselves fAsHiOn InFlUeNcErS but just buy thousands of dollars of shein and throw it all away within a week. 100% support this for THEM.
VOUCH
Agreed, as a regular human, I would be smacked by my mom for buying something like this and for what? An instagram pic
Thing is, why do they even feel the need to show off? Even if digital clothing is more sustainable (we still waste electricity), it still supports their low self-esteem, shopping addiction or any worse mental illness.
@@Offensive_Username I suppose it’s their ‘job’ and they make money off of it, however this is far better than buying off bloody shein or Ali express
@@KF-tq2df one of them at least tries to help poor people that needs clothing. the other is just a playground for rich people
$40 for a non-existent dress, I can't
I see that this channel is incredibly popular, but I’m new here 😂 I love the friendship between her and her husband (he’s the videographer right?) When they have little side conversations, it’s just a really cool little window into their closeness.
Just to be clear if this company does end up doing NFT's, the electricity one dress would burn would be more harmful to the environment than if you bought a physical version, flew it to you, and just threw it out immediately.
@Julia - 𝙾𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝙼𝚢 PROFILE oh wow a supposedly bot account is commenting a serious post
Thank you, for real, thank you. I pretty much just a few days ago learned about NFT's... and why they're harmful, and it's just so crazy to me that even on that level, we can fuck the environment. Like, I learned from this acrylic pouring artist that did a few of those, just what those were, and I'm just here wondering... why?
And I wonder if this is going to be the next generation (if theres one by the time we reach our older years...) technology that will just confuse us immensely when we get older. I doubt it, I think that the impact they have is just too much, but at the same time, when have they ever cared about it?
I still havent been able to grasp the concept fully as of now, specially since many of the people that talk about them just absolutely dismiss the impact that they have, but, time will tell I guess.
There are much more efficient NFT minting options than ETH that relies on proof of work. Proof-of-stake tokens are like 100x more efficient
☝☝☝ NFTs can also die
Yeah its a dumb scam, they never cared about the environment if they are planning to use NFTs
It’s so odd to think you just spent all this money on clothes you can’t actually wear.
True and either ways it looks fake
I don’t think it’s worth it
And that you can only "photograph" once
You basically paying the artist who created the clothes and the photo editor.
i guess it makes sense for influencers tho :/
seriously, I was confused. you pay for the clothes to be photoshopped on you but you can't have the item? 😭
Something about Safiya is comforting to me and idk why, I just feel like she is a genuinely friendly person.
When I was little my aunt made magnetic paper dolls of me and my cousin that we put on the fridge and we had different dresses that would go on top and stick with the magnets. This is giving me that energy.
This seems ideal for clothing companies to "send" products to influencers to wear once
YES
That's actually genius
Idk. The way it's photoshopped on is not necessarily the way it would fit in real life. It would definitely need to be disclosed at the very least that it's digital. So people aren't mislead.
Or influencers get a “green screen” outfit that can be used for several different outfits several times. The opportunities are endless!
@@karleighelizabethlust4994 they never wear the same thing twice though
I can see this being realistic as a cheap sustainable source of cute looks for Instagram, memories, etc. but the price would need to be waaay lower for it to be accessible.
Unfortunately the process of making the files for virtual clothing uses up so much energy that it is actively harming our environment. NFTs are not sustainable.
@@toadfrend3490 these aren't NFTs though, just 3d models photoshopped onto pictures.
Absolutely
@Megan Ryan the fashion industry isn't sustainable either, that hasnt stopped anyone from wearing clothes.
I think it’s very, very sad…like….you’re paying to have a fake dress put on you so you can post a picture on Instagram…? How can someone be so obsessed with socials and self-image to reach such a level?
It’s honestly scary…
the fact that i saw AND liked all these photos and did NOT BAT AN EYE LOLL i just saw this video now and im DYINGGG
I mean, if you think about it, I’m sure in the olden days people had the painter paint them in a marvelous gown and jewels they didn’t have 😂
I think my issue is that it’s paying for a picture when in the reality you don’t have that outfit or clothing piece, you don’t own it, which feels like we’re playing even more into what can you show off online to give the illusion you have more. Personally I like altering my clothes and learning how to adjust for weather or the occasion, it’s helped me cut down on buying new clothes, specifically fast fashion outlets. And I slowly learn a new fashion skill
I'll just screen shot a pick of the item and do it myself. Free and would turn out better than what they did. This is ludicrous. I know Saf is super polite, but all of this was garbage for the price it demanded. A few bucks? Sure, pay 5 dollars to photoshop on for one picture (and badly for that matter) to wear an outfit that would likely not actually work on a human body or be wearable. But 35 dollars? I can go have a nice meal, or get a new jacket for that price.
I'd get it if we lived mainly in VR wherein your avatar actually wears the outfit and you pay for the 3-D model and it's permenantly on your account or something, but this? This feels like the world went mad. I don't understand why people aren't calling it out for what it is, a scam. You get nothing you couldn't of done/gotten yourself.
@Phoenix 𝙾𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝙼𝚢 PROFILE It's commissioned art, price depends on the expected creativity and beauty of the result. This level of service used to be for really rich people only.
I agree with you, but to a certian extend. For fast fashion, modelling and high off brands like LV , this would be a great substitute for real clothes. Since these companies create millions of waste by only creating cheap clothing that is trending and then throwing it away once a new trend arrives. It's less wasteful and less exploitive. And let's be real here. Fashion is fueled by blood. Sweat shops, millions of underpaid, "workers" slaving away in a factory for fast fashion, only for their product which they made 0.20 cent from to be worn 2 times and then added to the waste and pollution the world is already facing.
In the future VR and real life will be one
This is equivalent to just paying for someone to photoshop something for you. I mean it is. I don't really see the parallel of not owning it as you are mostly just doing it to post on social media which is the only use case for it
The concept of digital clothing is so interesting and I get why it's a thing - but at the same time I expected that by purchasing "an item" you'd get the digital file and might even be able to photoshop it into photos yourself. While I applaud the mentality to be environmentally conscious, it does seem nonsensical to pay +1000$ for a single photo with a mediocre photoshop edit. But this is propably just the beginning and I am excited to see where this might go in the future.
Yeah I think with some advancements it could be as simple as like using a program to do it for you. Similar to how people create vtubers and such. You sort of buy a 3D render of just clothing items and you can change it. Which this could actually come in handy for things other than just pictures.. as I said, you could use it for vtubers, VR avatars, etc. Like literally buying a digital wardrobe you could use in many ways.
100%
Do you really think someone that spends money just to have a picture with a different outfit is going to have a small sustainable wardrobe in real life? Someone shallow enough to do this is going to continue to buy multiples of everything
People like talking about being sustainable while always using the latest technology. Is switching your phone every few months or even a year sustainable? Traveling all the time? Eating avocado toast that has to travel a long way to you, etc?
Would be awesome to be able to use these outfits on VR platforms that you can make your avatar wear.
Very true! My thought is that once it catches on, cheaper alternatives will be around and likely more advanced technology too, sort of like face filters. Maybe even free! Which would be great for the environment.
I love the idea of digital clothing for influencers or other social media users who just take a picture in an outfit for a post and then never or hardly ever wear it again.
Honestly this is just like when Snapchat was starting filters and it was big cartoon silly dog ears... Now just like 6 years later we've got realistic makeup looks and everything under the sun.
I look at this kind stuff as the most useless "what is the point" kind of companies. It blows my mind that people would spend money on virtual clothes... especially so much money... So I give you props for doing this so those of us who would never get to see the experience and judge if we're missing out on something. In this instance, I did not think the photos were worth the cost.
Tbh, this is one of the dumbest things i’ve ever heard
Why is it so mind blowing to you? It can make sense for a lot of stuff. People who make a living out of fashion pictures could use this instead of overconsuming, and since it doesn't exist there's no limit to the creativity. One comment mentioned that in the movie industry it's pretty common to dress up actors in virtual clothes. I just think it's a super cool thing
@@giuliad223 But wouldn't it be cheaper to pay professional photoshop artists to draw clothes for you? Not to mention that they could photoshop it properly with all the shading etc. Paying thousand of dollar (Some of them) seems a bit much to me.
I couldn't agree more. I don't see the point in it either. People are letting technology run their lives way too much. We need to get back to the simpler life we had like in the 80s and 90s. Those were much happier times, and not so complicated. (Jan Griffiths).
@@Scrizal you're forgetting the design. That's what you're actually paying. Yes you can ask a photoshop expert to do it and it would be cheaper but it would be a graphic tee and that's not the point. I will agree that the photoshop on the cheap ones looks botched, what can you expect though? You can't have an original design and a good photoshop job for only 30$
I understand the concept of paying per image as you're paying a digital artist to work on the photo for you (plus some amount towards the 3D model of the clothing), but I also don't think those prices are justified currently based on the quality of the photoshopped images. Honestly every single one is very clearly photoshopped, there are areas lacking shadows, harshly cut lines around the clothing, etc.
exactly! All of those outfits would've looked better if they added some shadowing. Honestly, for 40-60$ per pic, they could've at least done that...
it's way too much money for someone in their basement. It's a scam.
I feel the exact same way, too expensive for such average photoshop skills-
Yeah i thought the shadows were off for all the photos
I understand how it seems expensive from the outside POV, when you only get one photo for that money. But you also have to consider the cost of 3d software that was used to model, texture, pose and render that 3d garment PLUS photoshop. The amount of labour that goes into making one photo is sadly something that people who are outside 3d industry do not consider. YES its not best edit, and YES it is on a pricier side, but honestly paying 40$ for 2 - 4 hours of work is not that much.
One thing I find really interesting about this concept is that one of the value propositions (at least according to the marketing) of this service is that the clothing can fit any size, yet any photos I've seen of this service are on straight sized people. I don’t think I've seen any examples of these being "sizeless" because any examples I've seen have been of people that are roughly the same size.
Can we just appreciate how absolutely beautiful Safiya is? Like she could be a model!
Bro I get the whole not wanting to create clothing waste thing, but I feel like it’s such a waste of money to spend $50 on an outfit I can’t even wear in real life. I might as well just play a life simulator game😭😭😭
Exactly! Why the heck would anyone do this over just wearing normal clothes
Yeah I'll be honest I don't understand digital clothing because you can't wear it out anywhere for its price TwT like we still gotta wear clothes
@@elizatoponce9375 for me it seems that it's just a thing for rich people who don't have space in their closets for new clothes, but want cute photos to post 😁
It costs less to actually make many of these clothes in real life, this feels honestly like some money laundering scheme
Using the argument of "Not wanting to create clothing waste" is complete garbage to me, for sure a "we are a 100% waste-free company" kind of thing.
Total bullshit marketing thing. lol
Digitals clothes just existing
Safiya: Tyler hold my candle
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More like hold my merkin *WHEEZE*
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13:08 "I see how it is" literally my life😂😭💀🥵
They really need to make these one time purchases and it’s in your “closet” forever
Agree
The concept is pretty cool, and I especially love the idea of having the fun of fast fashion without the environmental impact, but the photoshop needs a lot of work. The unrealistic light and shadows are the biggest issue to me. But to be fair, looking at these pictures on a small phone screen in Instagram hides a multitude of photoshop sins, especially if all I do is casually scroll through.
NTF’s just as bad for the environment as plastics. I was the one who “Berated” Saf on YT. One evil is not worse than the other. There is still a huge Carbon footprint when making e fashion.
@@jennifercriss1897 these arent NFTs its 3d models photoshopped onto people
@@jennifercriss1897 The energy issues with NFTs only happen with the blockchain/cryptocurrency aspect that makes them "exclusive". This digital fashion is not exclusive, it's just photoshop - no more energy than digitally drawing something or editing a video. Actual crypto/NFTs suck ass, but this isn't them.
@@jennifercriss1897 but e fashion isn't being sold through crypto is it?
@@jennifercriss1897 girl calm down
They should definitely charge a lot less for re-using an outfit - especially for the expensive ones. Maybe a subscription model would make sense, or just charging for the editing skills as you already bought the digital asset license.
i was thinking like a subscription would make sense!! i think they are pretty new so we shall see how they end up addressing that lol
Yeah, because I get that you pay for both the design and the photoshop-job, but logically you should only have to pay for the design once.
subscription makes sense to me, maybe with a "per month" cap so the photoshoppers dont get overworked
I'm thinking they should sell by sets of pictures, like, pay for 3, 5, 7 or 10 pictures, with basically no expiration limit. If the piece is really basic, in the sense that the model wont change that much, like sunglasses, earrings, or shoes, maybe sell by the dozen, but if the garment is harder to model and adjust, then sell by smalled bulks. It would be more like renting an outfit but instead of hours, it's pictures.
Until the end of the video, I expected the outfits to be added to a virtual closet to be reworn
I recognize the posing animation and the way the fabric moves...
the definitely made this in marvelous designer
I think it helps that you are ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL Saf! Seeing the clothes on you also makes me feel like I myself could pull some of this off. It definitely needs to be so that you can build a digital clothing closet. If one is paying for digital clothing surely you should be able to own it for multiple photos.
I love this concept for enabling designers to fully go wild with their creativity and make garments that needn't conform to the constraining laws of physics, and I can totally see this as something that would be amazing for influencers and photographers to use instead of wasting clothing. I also imagine for new designers who maybe don't have the money to bring their clothing to life irl, this could allow them to profit off their work anyway, which is rad.
However, I don't really see how it's useful for the average person, since most people want to actually wear they things they buy multiple times, but there's nothing wrong with this being more a tool for artists/aspiring artists I guess.
idk about the new designers thing, digital arts programs can be pretty expensive specially 3d ones. I agree with everything else though, it's a tool for artists as well as a good way for fashion influencers to get to show and try a lot of clothes without contributing to the giant mountains of clothing trash we've been having a problem with in the last decade or so
I guess its more for influencers who take lots of photos and cant repeat outfits
I could envision a near future where they finally nail AR glasses and businesses pop up where you buy clothing that shows up in AR. Like you sell clothing with qr codes on it that link up to a digital clothing brand and you can digitally wear the clothes irl. It's hard to explain lol
This concept is cool for a digital spin on high fashion, all the guests watch the models with VRs and such. But even that can be considered problematic because haute couture is quiet prominently about breaking through the challenges and limitations imposed by the materials, that's why it's a form of Art.
Oh my god. Okay so i work in quinceañera, and currently because of the pandemic there's been an uptick of people wanting those huge poofy ball gowns solely for photos. I can imagine using that for. The girls that only want to do a photoshoot and don't want/can't do the huge party. It would be so useful.
It's a super fun concept until I realised that one still has to pay a decent amount of money for basically nothing, lol
its a modern twist on the emperors new clothes! lol
This summarizes everything I feel about this lol
@@safiya The one biggest thought i had running through my head watching it was our future descendants living in VR thinking "aww, look how cute they are with their shitty tech" 😂
Yeah I'm not totally opposed to this, I just feel like we're still in our infancy stage with technology and we're all trying new and wacky things to see what works lol
You're basically paying for the photoshopping. If you add in the cost for the design itself, the 30 to 40 Dollar tier isn't even that expensive. I mean, you probably don't whip that up in an hour.
That being said: yeah, for us 'normal' people it is indeed a lot of money for nothing.
i get the criticism for normal, basic clothes as it gets pretty weird and dystopian, but for more avant garde and physically unrealistic clothes, it seems like a cool art project with high expressive potential
You know what? This reminds me of my cardboard dolls, for which I was making paper clothes, when I was 7 years old. A lot more creative, satisfying and free hobby 🤩😊😉🎇
To be quite honest the only possible scenario where I could think this could be useful or have a market is with influencers 🥴 and maybe when improving their video one, possibly with red carpet events like met gala perhaps
YES great point!
I think it's the start of everyone wearing Distopian eye visors and actually wearing all grey but we exist as avatars to eachother
Digital fashion has many applications. We are creating digital samples to approve look before production and creating look books as digital campaigns and I believe that we all will be able to use more digital clothing in our day to day as we are expending so much time in digital worlds !!
Hey are u an army? Coz ur pfp is chimmy!!! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
Yeah, and in those cases their pool of clients would be very limited.
I feel like this is disturbingly dystopian. Are we this disconnected from reality?
RIGHT???!?! no one is talking about it💀💀💀 I'm acually scared. Fahrenheit 451 anyone????👀👀👀👀
I just read about FB groups that are recommending people not go to Emergency Rooms & to take their loved ones out of ICUs in favor of home treatment. Not to mention that some people believe in the "crisis actor" thing - to the point of harassing families.
Yes, people are that disconnected from reality.
Yup. Reminds me more of stuff like SAO and digital reality is just going to be used as another escape people focus on instead of improving their habits in reality
This is literally the emperor having no clothes. Very disturbing. Fun, but disturbing.
@@aina3387 exactly what I was thinking
This video is so entertaining. Thank you for making these. I'm watching them during difficult times and laughing so hard. Before this, I was watching the platform crocs video and laughing and reliving my own moments of wearing high heels to a beach and falling down just like you
So thank you Saf. Much love. ❤️
Someone NEEDS to actually attempt to make some of these crazy outfits 😂
This is such an incredible waste of money, but I appreciate the idea, since you're paying for a service. However, their photoshop abilities are ROUGH, and I don't understand why they'd be offering a service that isn't very good? Maybe I'm overthinking things, because we pay for digital services all the time, but other than reducing clothing waste (which there are other, more fiscally responsible and easier to access options for), what's the point?
This idea is great for special effects in movies!
@@chrisbailey7384 also they could make fashion shows/runaways with this kinda of stuff
@@chrisbailey7384 Cgi already exists though? Most movies have a separate team for it. A movie would literally never use this kind of app for its special effects and neither would a runway.
The AR-thing could be used as a virtual changing room to let you try before buying online, in fact that's been a thing for ages.
The actual service seems more like a service for influensers and they already upload obviously doctored photos so I don't think quality is much of a concern there.
This feels like an elaborate prank in the vein of "The Emperor's New Clothes" fable. Either that or I've finally just gone insane. I give it a 50/50 probability.
I feel the same about this whole digital art thing, when I first learned about it I felt pranked and still kinda think I'm in crazy town anytime I see someone selling NFTs for hundreds of dollars.
No no you’re right
@@sonjapersch6074 digital clothes vs digital art is completely different.. the clothes make actually no sense-like you still need clothes whether we’re a digital age or not. digital art, however, is something so needed in our also digital society. believe it or not, the computer doesn’t do shit for you when it comes to drawing (unless you use stamps and stuff which i very much hate). art (i’m referring to painting and digital painting and such medias) will always require creativity, talent, and effort, all of which digital art still requires. i don’t understand how people can criticize digital when other art like abstract exist (which i know you didn’t say that, i’m just putting that out there). nfts are a great way for artists work to not go unappreciated in this digital age, since people harness the idea that digital =/= art, which just isn’t true. i can definitely see how it looks that way though, considering things like digital clothes exist, but once you become more accustomed to digital art, you can understand the effort behind it.
@@sophie6744 there's no way you're trying to justify digital art while saying that digital clothing - which is a form of digital art - is ridiculous? At least with the digital clothes no one else can use it, so I'd argue NFTs are even stupider. I'm not saying digital artists shouldn't be paid, I mean: good for them! But it's just unbelievable anyone WOULD spend money on a jpg.
so im not the only one who immediately thought of that story??? at the risk of sounding like a boomer its 2021 and i can still barely stomach the concept of paying for reusable cosmetics in a video game...... and now we're paying for single use cosmetics for our actual selves ???? for what??? insta likes???
Long long-sleeved reminds me of the back to the future jacket!! I literally cried laughing at the hat and boots pic, so good!!
I think an interesting idea would be for actual photoshopped to be given the same budget and clothing concept and photoshop it to the same original pictures that Safiya took to see the difference
There are digital dresses worth way more than my actual wedding dress. That's enough of society for today
money does not measure worth. it measures how much someone, somewhere is willing to pay for it
we live in a society
For $1000 it better come with an actual dress
The concept is interesting, but even if the finished product was unbelievably amazing, paying over $1000 for what is essentially a snapchat filter you can only use once is just ridiculous. Any half decent photoshop artist would have been able to deliver much higher quality picture for a fraction of the price, with far more creative input from yourself.
If this could be done with a more convincing algorithm, this would actually be a super amazing way to check out online clothing and preview looks and colors on yourself.
the closest ive come across this is with taking a 2x2 picture where they digitally added a collared shirt w/ blazer because it was for my resume. i can definitely say i wore digital clothing in 2015
Its like sims CC creators have finally found a way to break into high fashion and make money off their virtual creations.
ive seen better cc than some of the clothes tho. like what was the texture of the first one how did people think its real
Nah, a CC creator could probably do better
How dare you, sims fashion was MUCH better 😂😂😂
Sims CC creators have been slaying though, even their announcements of new creations are better than the advertisement of these digital clothes
So accurate!
What hurts about the editing is that they could’ve fixed some lighting aspects and toned down the clothes colors (or amplified the first photo I guess) and it would’ve looked so much more natural
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Photoshop level 1.0 😂🙈 my designer soul is dying right now 😆
Love your videos! Your channel is so comforting.
The Photoshop is so funny, it’s obvious that they took the 3D model, screenshotted from a vaguely relevant angle and slapped it on there with no regard for lighting, reflections or even feathering.
I love how possitive her instagram comments are, it doesn't matter how crazy, ugly or outrageous the outfit is, everyone expects it from Safiya and they just support her weird fashion choices 😂❤
I know, I'm sitting here thinking being able to show the awesomeness of her commenters is the only reason this has any real benefit
This video has been live for a couple of months and I just realised digital fashion is the reason why Gucci was looking to hire digital artists at the beginning of last year (I know that because a friend of mine who works as a texture artist got that position)
As a photosphop artist myself, my eyes are hurting by the lack of skill and effort the "editors" put into making the clothing look realistic.
Respect to Safiya for developing seven distinct yet almost completely black outfits here. Very consistent.
Absolutely, it's one of the thing si love about her 😂
This concept makes me so irrationally angry. Like it's nothing against Saf or the designers or anything, it's just so pointless. The only way I could see it working is if we all wore some google-glass type thing and you could see people walking around in real-time with it on. Otherwise, you're just paying $40 for someone to photoshop a dress on you which you could learn to do for free with probably better results. The whole point of cool clothes is that they're cool because they defy your expectations for what fabric is supposed to do and how it's supposed to function. I already know a computer can put me in a dress that defies gravity. I want to see what kinds of crazy amazing things people can create with an actually limiting medium like fabric.
Yes omg I almost just made the same comment verbatim lol
if i’m spending $40 on clothes, they better be real lol
You’re paying 40 dollars for a photoshopped picture that YOU took. Ridiculous !!
i dont think this is the real intention tho. this looks to be targeted mainly at influences (and art fans) and if we can do anything to stop them from buying and throwing away so many clothes im a supporter. Also technically yes anyone can learn anything if they put the time and effort in but the reason we hire services and artisans is BECAUSE not everyone has the time or effort or desire to learn these skills. Also this isnt just photoshop, its 3d modelling, rigging, lighting, texturing, editing etc.
another point is, a lot of these look more like art projects than meant to be anything practical. And sometimes art can just exist for the sake of being art.
I get very frustatred when people shit on modern tech based art "not practical or sooo fake" because that's not the point of it? the point of it is to look cool and to push technology. (this is not including nfts tho lol those are dumb)
@@Heliocanix sure. But the photos are just poorly done. The shadows are way off in every pic. If I was an influencer I would not be pleased with the outcome
If you wanna do this for instagram or tiktok, I’d recommend just directly commissioning a 3D artist instead. You can get it much more customized, and you’ll probably get more direct communication with the artist.
I loved all of the photos taken, with and without the digital clothes ❤️
Yes! I think it's great that saf was willing to evidently step so far out of her comfort zone and have more skin exposed. She's gorgeous and I can't love her enough
Kind of interesting that they're trying to sell this as an eco-friendly disruption of the fashion industry, but through terribly damaging and unsustainable NFTs
What’s nft?
@@FionaMarie1234 NFTs are the non-fungible tokens - essentially those unique digital Blockchain tokens that can be used to sell unique digital art. However, they are incredibly detrimental to the environment because they are very resource intensive
@@alyssapfluger4236 oh like bit coins
@@FionaMarie1234 somewhat, but bitcoins and some other crypto have a set limit NFTs do not
meaning potentially we could fuggin die because someone wanted to sell a JPEG of a poorly drawn monkey on the internet
why is NTF harmful to the environment? I don't get it
Their problem with legs is shadows. They don't put any. Same with the back of your neck. Honestly most of their issues would be solved with more natural shadows.
Like, if it's so expensive why is the photoshop not the best?
@@jsmith1576 because it's most likely done in India or other third world country for a couple of cents. And a couple of dollars go to the designer as a royalty and all the rest is pure profit for the company.
@@youshimimi lol i get what you mean and it's probably true but it came off a bit wrong with what you were responding to, people from india can do good photoshop too they're not lesser humans. People in india and other third world countries like argentina do a lot of the behind the scenes work for big IT companies like google and apple (both as digital apps designers as well as economical project reviewers and many othe things, this kind of companies are honestly mostly run by people who live in this kind of countries) and you don't know because they are perfectly capable
@@pamelaguerra3768 that's why I specified "for a couple of cents". There are professionals in India, but they don't charge in cents.
However thanks to their labor laws, you can also buy very cheap work with low quality from India and other third world countries. That's what most likely happening here. Don't get on a high horse with "lesser humans" lmao. This is about the country's laws about minimal wage, nothing else.
And yes, I know what I'm talking about, I'm from the industry and have worked with both professionals from India and people who were charging cents per hour.
The rewatchable value of Saf’s video is 🤩
Omg , stop! You are literally so perfect!! Get it queen!!
I think the main market is influencers. They can easily access perfectly fitted high end outfits in a single photoshoot. I've heard of some of them buying and then returning clothes just for a shoot.
That's what I was thinking, it just doesn't make sense for the general public. Why pay $40 for a single photoshopped picture?
@@weatherboyderogatory5054 To be honest a lot of influencers have some photoshop experience, so they'd probably do a better job. Buying the assets normally would probably be cheaper.
Yeah!! I wouldn’t even say some, I’ve heard from a lot haha I have a photographer friend and she told me about one who just returns hundreds of outfits per month just to take photos
@@Stettafire Honestly, yeah, I think I agree.
The photo editing on these looks is so baffling. Like, how is this professional? It was such simple mistakes that could easily be fixed with a bit more effort.
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YOU LOOK SOOOOOOO GOOD WHILE TAKING PICS! ty for this video safiya
This feels like when games start pumping out in app purchases with new skins, that you never see unless you go to your profile and check it. It seems so weird
This is such a good comparison
😂😂 I feel like I’m seeing a glimpse into the future…
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For the price the photoshop jobs were for the most part decent, I can’t imagine they’re paying the artist all that much especially for the pieces worth $30-$50. Most of that money probably goes to the website and the designers :/
When you talked about the first one and said "I think it looks pretty good" I was like "👁️👄👁️ummm...?". (Like others here have said) the photoshop is bad and that's what makes it a big no for me, concidering this is not a free service. If the quality was good, I would view this as like paying for an art piece, ie. a digital painting or something. If I can get a good looking picture (that can be published on social media or printed as a poster) it would be cool. But the execution is bad so no
this is my childhood irl
i always loved the thought of digital fashion ever since i seen stella and bloom at the mall. i think it was earlier episodes of winx club and she was showing bloom around.
i remember wishing it was that easy to try on clothes
I think my biggest issue is the quality of the photoshop done. The quality of it gives me major middle school quality vibes. Some were done pretty well but others were oh so bad
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@Phoenix 𝙾𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝙼𝚢 PROFILE I truly don’t know enough about nfts besides the fact I find them confusing to understand so I can’t comment on that part
I want these clothes for real. No way I'm paying even $35 for fake clothes lol. Fashion designers saw how game companies were getting away with people paying money for digital clothes for their characters and were like "hey...".
Them in a board meeting “okay guys. We need to cut costs. Any ideas?”
High guy in the back “OH OH OH! I know! Let’s sell the clothes, without actually giving them the clothes”
@@Tornmacaroon well, but you're not an influencer. There's people who buy tens of outfits every month that they never use again, i think for someone like that this would make sence (if the pivtures were more believable though, they all kind of looked photoshoped)
Not every service has to be for everyone
@@pamelaguerra3768 Dude, you do realise how much NFTs and stuff pollute the environment, right? it's way worse then buying ten fashion items in a month.
Plus the photoshop jobs on these is terrible and a lot of influences have a decent set of photoshop skills.
i am just appalled with how extremely expensive each seperate item was, like that is absolutely insane
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As other digital illustrators have chimed in on this, I think to me every single one of these was painfully obvious in it's photoshopping. A few of them are worse than Snapchat filters. I don't say this as a way to put down the overall concept, but it seems to me that most people won't be fooled by these. And at their pricing level, the only people who could possible afford this anyhow are people with so much excess that they don't know what to do with it. Maybe one day this is a concept that can be revisited at a much more affordable price (one that most people could afford) - because this is the sort of thing that would mostly see success from the average person having access to it and wanting to use it on their Instagram etc.
I know of a rising project that is doing just that.
Seems like an idea that exceeds the capabilities of mass technology at this time. I’ve seen this pulled off really well in the fashion industry for quite a number of years, but it’s generally accomplished by extremely proficient photoshop artists, 3D modelers and skilled photographers that know how to photograph specifically for an edit. There’s definitely a workflow that starts before the camera even gets turned to the model for this to become the sublime imagery that this product wants to be.
Edit: my conclusion is that we’re not in a place to be offering products like this except as an expensive boutique process, not the weird factory vibes that this is presenting.
Yes, it definitely feels done by a machine with very mild tweaks rather than even a half way adequate graphic designer. The neck and arms were often particularly bad. With some work and extra customisation, the avant garde pieces could look really good
Yeah. It's very obvious that the sample pictures of them photoshopped onto models had a lot of care put into them. They probably employ a decent amount of photoshop artists to do this stuff, and $35 dollars to edit a picture is honestly crap pay(that's like friends and family price), so you're not gonna get even close to the kind of quality they have on the sale page. That definitely shows in the price of the items, as well. the $1000 dress was obviously done by someone much more skilled, while the long longsleeve edit was something I could have pulled off in like 20 minutes. Because of that, I feel it's a bit of false advertising in the state it's currently in, since most of the people looking to buy this stuff are obviously not going to know what's really required(work load/price/posing/etc) to pull this off at such a high level.
@@J_Lynn yeah, it’s a very bad rate, and that doesn’t even include the commission to the designer, who I presume gets a percentage, probably in the 20-30% range, I’m guessing, then the company takes their cut, THEN the retoucher gets paid. It’s possible they’re not even paying based on commission and could be outsourcing to a retouching house, which could be essentially an unregulated sweatshop depending on where it’s located.
I make little edits like this for my job, where I make mockups. I know how long this would take, and where corners were cut. This makes me think they have a full time design staff - no way else they would be able to charge this low. They likely have a 3d "person" template which they pose over the photo and then do some minor retouching. I bet the expensive one went to the lead designer.
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3:23 Idk why but I was crying laughing at these two examples especially the paste blue dress LMAO
"Imagine a business where people hand you money, and you hand them back... absolutely nothing. Now that's a real American dream."
TV, digital books, any in person entertainment.... all things where you don't get a physical product. This isn't really different.
Well there is definitely someone out there who is taking the time to (questionably) Photoshop these garments in, so they need to get paid for their work haha
@@savannahleslie3515 Yes but you can watch a TV and you can read a book...seriously are you really trying to defend this con ?
@@drewukdrew I don't really see it as a con if it's delivering exactly what it says it is.
Rush Hour!!
It reminds me of a story I read as a child. A merchant sold gorgeous invisible cloths to the a king to make amazing robes lol
When he went to show his people, he was just completely naked.
man... on the one hand some of these outfits are honestly gorgeous and so cool, and i love the creative space that digital fashion affords designers because you can get REALLY wild with art in the digital space. on the other hand, it really is just online fashion - it's not real clothes you can wear to feel fun or sexy or pretty on a night out, or even put on just to wander around the house because it's your favorite dress and you like it. it's exclusively to show *other people* that you're wearing something, which gives me big second life/IMVU/gaia online/other virtual avatar vibes. a thousand dollars for pixels that someone photoshops on your body sounds crazy.
still, i can see the appeal of having a photo of yourself in a REALLY avant-garde or reality-defying outfit. it's almost like being in an art exhibition, and i almost wonder if there's an idea there - sharing digital fashion to be worn by a bunch of people and turning the results into a collection of some sort. but the idea of "wearing" this as more than just a novelty just sounds completely unrealistic and pointless for non-influencers.
You said it exactly how I was thinking. It’s cool as a concept, but it’s also not worth it for people who aren’t rich and famous.
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Thank you! all I could think of with that $1000 dress was Ready Player One
As a designer myself, I felt personally insulted by this company. Unbelievable that people are really spending money with these shitty photoshopped photos. Also, the videos and catalogs photos are pretty different from the "real product", is even more false advertising than the Made in China e-commerce photos. (but awesome video Safiya)
100% agreed! Since I began sewing and making/upcycling clothes I've learned to appreciate the craftsmanship of garments, and this feels... somehow insulting? Especially since the Photoshop is sooo bad sometimes.
Sounds like a great business opportunity for you and others. Imagine what people would pay for high-quality photoshopped designer wear.
Honest to God if I'm not actually able to wear something I spend money on, designer or dollar store, I would blow a gasket, all 12 cylinders and my brains blood vessels because if I'm gonna not be able to fit something and argue with people on return shipping. I would still rather that than missing looking that way in real life because I want the REAL asset. Digital try on, ok kool, digital assessing/ Photoshop remixing for 30$ pluss? 🤷🏾♂️ As much as y'all paying for this and poopy shadows/ no actual blending in photo for INSTA?!?!?! Huhhhhhh.....
Idk I'm lost, I'ma just join the Boomer club now lmao.
I’m becoming obsessed with your videos
wait i actually genuinely love this idea
I feel like this would only be worth it if you wanted something super over-the-top and rare, like the animated clothing and the weird accessories, else why would I want a plain outfit for 35$ that I only get to "wear" once and could potentially be photoshopped horribly on me?
Yeah, i guess most people wont see the value in this. But i guess we're just not in the target audience for this. Influencers may benefit from this more
I think having digital clothes is a cool concept but it's kind of lazy to plaster on digital clothes for a photo rather than actually putting in effort to save money for a physical outfit.
This sounds oddly like an Emperor’s New Clothes situation… 😂
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I was thinking the exact same thing.
Omg yes!
Deep cut.
Yes! Although I guess you're basically paying for a Photoshop job so, from that perspective, if it's well done, I'd say it's worth it if you're into fashion.
the sweater one in the end.
I WANT IT SO BADDDD