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RTFKT x Takashi Murakami - Chris Le - Clonex
Episode interview with Chris Le, find his Twitter @clegfx and check out his new avatar project dropping soon CloneX
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[0:33 – 1:11] Chris is the co-founder of Studio RTFKT and soon dropping CloneX, a collaboration with Takashi Murakami.
[1:16 – 8:40] Chris has worked in all forms of entertainment some of the artists e has worked with include; Anderson Paak, NAS, and Rick Ross. From music industry to film he has done it all but always with an emphasis in visual effects (CGI or VFX background) then moved into game skins. Chris developed a lot of skins for the Steam Workshop Platform. In his view skins are the same concept as NFTs.
He then had the idea to put these skins on sneakers and was introduced to Benito through his friend Brock Hofer (Hyperbeast). From there they teamed up with Zaptio to create a digital sneaker brand that could be forged for physicals.
They got funded in 2019 by Galaxy Digital then later by GFR Fund and RTFKT launched in 2020. They returned to NFTs in late 2020 with their release of Cyber Sneaker on Superman.
[8:40 – 11:35] For Kizu he sees a lot of overlap between Chris and Murakami’s background. Starting in fashion, then later moving into the hip-hop industry (Murakami’s colaborations: LVMH, Supreme, Off-White, Kanye West, Ben Baller & Drake)
Chris responds that he only works with people he is a fan of and that their backgrounds (Chris, Zapatio, Ben & Murakami) all aligned, almost as if it were meant to happen.
[11:57 – 13:04] The collaboration came about after the guys at RTFKT did an interview with Forbes Japan after which Murakami reached out with a DM of emojis. The rest is...
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Episode interview with Chris Le, find his Twitter @clegfx and check out his new avatar project dropping soon CloneX
Time Stamps
[0:33 – 1:11] Chris is the co-founder of Studio RTFKT and soon dropping CloneX, a collaboration with Takashi Murakami.
[1:16 – 8:40] Chris has worked in all forms of entertainment some of the artists e has worked with include; Anderson Paak, NAS, and Rick Ross. From music industry to film he has done it all but always with an emphasis in visual effects (CGI or VFX background) then moved into game skins. Chris developed a lot of skins for the Steam Workshop Platform. In his view skins are the same concept as NFTs.
He then had the idea to put these skins on sneakers and was introduced to Benito through his friend Brock Hofer (Hyperbeast). From there they teamed up with Zaptio to create a digital sneaker brand that could be forged for physicals.
They got funded in 2019 by Galaxy Digital then later by GFR Fund and RTFKT launched in 2020. They returned to NFTs in late 2020 with their release of Cyber Sneaker on Superman.
[8:40 – 11:35] For Kizu he sees a lot of overlap between Chris and Murakami’s background. Starting in fashion, then later moving into the hip-hop industry (Murakami’s colaborations: LVMH, Supreme, Off-White, Kanye West, Ben Baller & Drake)
Chris responds that he only works with people he is a fan of and that their backgrounds (Chris, Zapatio, Ben & Murakami) all aligned, almost as if it were meant to happen.
[11:57 – 13:04] The collaboration came about after the guys at RTFKT did an interview with Forbes Japan after which Murakami reached out with a DM of emojis. The rest is...