


“Bringing Murakami, our favorite artist, to work with us on these avatars and share our vision is the biggest thing we could have dreamed of,” they said, in a collective statement. “I have been very interested in NFTs and their potential,” he says. “We started chatting, and came to love each other’s work. I’m very excited to create with such an innovative team.”įor their part, RTFKT describe Murakami as a long-standing “idol” of theirs. However, he came upon RTFKT's work while surfing through Instagram.
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He debuted his first NFT piece in March, a series of 108 digital flowers inspired by Nintendo, which sparked his interest in cryptocurrency-art. Murakami is no stranger to cross-cultural collaboration: in addition to his well-publicized collaborations with Kanye West and Louis Vuitton, he has recently given his designs to anything from t-shirts to tennis rackets. When HYPEBEAST initially reported on their foray into virtual fashion in January, they billed themselves as a "new era Supreme, for a digital audience," and outlined their ambitious ambitions for a succession of high-profile partners throughout the year. RTFKT Studios which is a virtual fashion collective made no secret of its desire to infuse the realm of NFTs with a 'hype' sensibility. CLONE X - X Takashi Murakami is a collection of 20,000 avatars with a unique random mix of features devised by Murakami.īuyers will be able to utilize the assets they get in future Non-Fungible Token (NFT) -based games, Augmented reality filters, Zoom meetings, and Metaverse platforms.
