Vivienne Tam’s First NFT Dress Struts Around Metaverse Fashion Week

**Vivienne Tam’s First NFT Dress Struts Around Metaverse Fashion Week \n \n **Vivienne Tam, the revered Chinese American fashion designer whose first-ever piece of virtual couture is currently making waves on the virtual runway in Decentraland. The piece, a virtual qipao dress digitally embroidered with the likenesses of three avatars from the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection in a mandala pattern, is a one-of-one NFT, meticulously designed by Tam with the technical assistance of digital fashion platform Brand New Vision (BNV). The dress marks Tam’s Web3 debut. For over 30 years, she has designed provocative, exclusively physical fashion pieces known for their distinctive East-meets-West style. A number of them feature in the permanent collections of such institutions as the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. She's also displayed physical Bored Ape-imprinted apparel on real world runways.