Ohzone X Fashion Community Week Virtual Fashion WalkOff (trailer)
AS ZOOLANDER ONCE SAID…
These days, the only fashion shows you are likely to see are going to be virtual. But, to paraphrase Derek Zoolander, have you ever wondered if there is more to virtual fashion shows, other than watching really, really ridiculously good looking people in pre-recorded videos?
AS IMRAN AMED ONCE SAID…
As Business of Fashion CEO Imran Amed recently observed, the upcoming “big four” fashion weeks in New York, Paris, London, and Milan “will be ..., largely composed of private appointments, online videos, and live digital broadcasts.”
A NEW ERA OF VIRTUAL FASHION -- WITH INTERACTION, NOT A VIDEO
Judge for yourself with our video montage World First Interactive Virtual Fashion “walk-off,” electronic models versus live models, in collaboration with Fashion Community Week, San Francisco.
Fashion Community Week, San Francisco made its virtual debut on Sept 24-27, 2020, in collaboration with The OHZONE, Inc., a fashion tech startup based in the Bay Area.
This was the world’s first genuinely interactive virtual event, in which viewers experienced the movement of the garments on real-life models as well as on e-models. The viewers were be able to virtually hop on and stop the runway model, rotate him or her around, inspect any angle of the garment, and zoom in to examine design details such as colors, patterns, fabric, and textures.
Oh Tepmongkol-Wheaton
Oh Tepmongkol-Wheaton is the CEO/Co-founder of OHZONE, a 3D fashion tech startup that was recently awarded Top Fashion Tech 2021 by Retail Tech Insights, covered in the Vogue Startup Spotlight, and one of the Top 200 for Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Frontier Sustainability Challenge 2021. Oh and her team spent 24 women years developing the patented 3D photorealistic called 3DREALTM technology to create true-to-life digital assets from real garments. Oh is a seasoned veteran with 30 years of experience as a computer graphics architect and principal engineer at top companies in the valley. She has a master's degree from Stanford University and is a holder of 7 patents where she is the principal inventor. She is the "Oh" in the OHZONE.