One of the biggest challenges facing the burgeoning digital fashion space, loosely defined as designers and programmers working to dress the virtual avatars that will come to populate the still nascent metaverse—has been balancing the priorities of both the old fashioned and the Web3 pioneers.

Some of the most popular metaverse platforms, such as Decentraland Y the sandboxhave gained substantial traction in Web3 circles due to the fact that they operate on a “without permission” structure: digital assets, like a virtual dress, for example, can freely flow in and out of them.

These same platforms, however, also tend to be built in extremely simple 3D styles, something that limits their usefulness as fashion showcases. “The reality is that a lot of brands don’t really look at The…