Fashion has demonstrably changed over the 60 years since the Council of Fashion Designers of America began representing the trade. Fittingly, the organization is celebrating its historic birthday by embracing a new kind of fad that could be the biggest disruptor the industry has ever seen.

Featured since last Monday on the Metaverse platform The Sandbox, “Shaping the Shades of American Design,” puts a punctuation mark on a year-long birthday celebration for the CFDA. The collection is organized into five themes: Illuminating a Fantasy, Illuminating Romance, Illuminating the Cutting Edge, Illuminating the Understanding, and Illuminating the Soul.

“The metaverse exhibit is the end of a one-year anniversary celebration. Throughout the year we celebrate the…