GEN C: Dressing the Digital World With Derek Edwards, Nick Gonzalez and Megan Kaspar
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🗓️ 11 September 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This week, we celebrate the beginning of Fashion Month taking place in New York before moving on to London, Milan and Paris. This conversation was previously recorded at Consensus this past year in Austin, TX.
Derek Edwards of Collab+Currency, Nick Gonzalez of UNXD and Megan Kaspar of Red DAO join Toby Bochan on the Consensus stage to discuss the rise of digital fashion, luxury brands entering Web3, the importance of provenance and community building and predictions for the evolution of digital fashion.
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| 0:00.0 | Gen C is the generation of the new internet. |
| 0:06.0 | In Gen C, the C stands for crypto, but it also stands for creators, the connected consumer, and collectibles, both digital and physical with on-chain provenance. |
| 0:15.0 | It stands for culture and characters, the ones we play in games, and the companion ones that AI is building alongside us. |
| 0:22.6 | It stands for community and digital citizenship, and the new set of transparent and trustless tools being built to govern them. |
| 0:29.6 | These are the people who were raised on a different philosophy, on how they look at money, how they look at identity, how they look at privacy, |
| 0:36.6 | and how they look at the hybrid, |
| 0:38.0 | digital, and physical spaces being built all around us. And finally, how they reimagine their |
| 0:43.2 | relationships with the communities and companies they interact with. We focus on how brands, large and |
| 0:49.0 | small, are building for these audiences. Welcome to Gen C. |
| 1:00.4 | Welcome everyone to the special episode of Gen C. |
| 1:03.9 | We're about halfway through Fashion Week here in New York City. |
| 1:09.4 | So we thought for this week, we would feature a special conversation that was had a consensus this year called Dressing the Digital World, |
| 1:13.2 | cutting edge or out of fashion, and features a group of people who are really some of the |
| 1:18.2 | smartest minds in the idea of digital fashion. It has Derek Edwards from Collab and Currency, |
| 1:25.7 | one of the sort of big brains who talks about the idea of ownership of digital assets and where we're going with trust minimized databases and on-chain recording of transactions. |
| 1:35.3 | We have Megan Casper, who's one of the leading voices in digital fashion, also a founding member of Red Dow. |
| 1:41.3 | And we also have Nick Gonzalez, the co-founder of UNXD. UnXD and their team help bring |
| 1:49.0 | large brands into the digital space, folks like Dolcey Gabana, Valentino, and a bunch of others, |
| 1:55.9 | really an amazing group of technologists. A couple of notes. This was recorded live at Consensus this year. |
| 2:02.6 | It is in front of a audience, |
| 2:05.6 | so you might hear a little bit of room noise from the conversation. |
| 2:10.6 | In addition, there is a video component that is playing behind them, |
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