My m­­ajor is in jewellery and I’m interested in a way of allowing consumers to experience the pieces beyond their physical wearability, using a digital format to take the pieces and their wearers to an alternate reality. 

Video 1.

http://vimeo.com/61520899

Delfina Delettrez : Digital animation of pieces for her last collection. The digital format changes the surface and look of the metal and the pieces themselves. They become objects and sculptures in a landscape as well as wearable pieces.

Video 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw0jsjYivZQ&feature=player_embedded

YOUTUBE  :  Dior’s Belledone Island Collection in Second Life.  Signature pieces of the collection were 3D modeled and the collection was launched in the Second Life. Here the pieces become large-scale objects to be explored and inhabited. 

- Casey

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