Must Read: Fashion Is Focused on the Metaverse, How to Practice Transparency in the Beauty Industry

These are the stories making headlines in fashion on Wednesday.

‘The New York Times’ explores fashion and the metaverse
Vanessa Friedman explores fashion and the metaverse for The New York Times, unpacking Meta’s recent launch of a new avatar fashion store featuring looks from Balenciaga, Thom Browne and Prada. Friedman, though, is not impressed: “While it is good that the tech world, which has shied away from fashion since the attempt to make wearables chic fell pretty much flat on its face, realizes that if it wants to play in the world of dress, best to invite the experts in, these particular offerings seem predicated on the lowest common expectations of our selves in the virtual world,” notes the writer. “The whole point of the kind of fashion Mssrs. Gvasalia et al. create is that it is more than commercial: It shows us who we are, or who we want to be, at a specific moment in time in ways we didn’t even understand until we see it.” {The New York Times}