Prada is releasing its first NFT in partnership with Adidas: a crowd-sourced digital artwork in a Beeple-style collage, in luxury’s newest iteration in the metaverse.
From 24 January, anyone can register to submit a photograph using a specially-designed filter, that will be manipulated, scrambled up, and 40 per cent of the image removed, so as to be anonymised. Three thousand of the individual photographs will be selected by raffle, and minted by Adidas as unique NFTs for free. The individual who submitted the artwork will remain the owner, able to sell their NFT on the secondary market. The selected images will then be combined as tiles into one mass patchwork NFT, designed by digital artist and creative coder Zach Lieberman. That one-of-one NFT will be auctioned online on digital art marketplace SuperRare, and displayed as a large-scale installation in Prada and Adidas flagship stores. The patchwork style is similar to Beeple’s $69 million “Everydays: The First 5000 Days,” which set a record for a digital artwork at Christie’s auction.
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