Our Journey & Tribute to the Community

We still believe in that future. 

For now, we are winding down operations. And before we close this chapter, we want to honor everything we built, with our designers, our collectors, our partners, and our community. Nothing that happened here was inevitable. It happened because a global network of creatives, technologists, fashion students, cultural workers, and digital visionaries believed in the same future we did. This archive is a place to revisit the moments that shaped SYKY’s world.

Keystone Launch (January 2023)

SYKY was launched to bridge the gap between the digital world and luxury fashion. It was founded by Alice Delahunt, who previously served as Chief Digital & Content Officer at Ralph Lauren. Delahunt created SYKY to foster innovation and empower a new generation of designers working at the intersection of technology, craft, and culture.

SYKY launched in January 2023 with the Keystone Pass, a sold-out onchain membership that became the foundation of a new creative ecosystem. Keystone members have enjoyed curated access to prestigious events and experiences, including a private tour of Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, led by SYKY Founder & CEO Alice Delahunt, invitations to the Business of Luxury Summit in Monaco, and insider access to Digital Fashion Week New York. 

SYKY’s own events have included an intimate evening with award-winning designer Kate Barton, a fashion week party in collaboration with Calvin Klein, and a night celebrating breakout musician Audrey Nuna's digital fashion collab with designer Sunw.

The SYKY Collective (June 2023)

In June 2023, SYKY launched its incubator The SYKY Collective, a year-long program supporting visionary designers from around the world. The cohort included: Fanrui Sun, Stephy Fung, Nextberries, Jacqueline Jade, Pet Liger, Taskin Goec, Calvyn Justus, GLITCHOFMIND, and Felipe Fialo. 

To guide them, we brought together a group of mentors bridging luxury, digital innovation, and global culture: The British Fashion Council, Sabine le Marchand, Jonathan Bottomley, Mark Guiducci, Megan Kaspar, and Matthew Ball. Their support helped Collective designers navigate the realities of building a fashion business, from brand identity to cultural positioning to the future of digital-physical workflows.

Each designer had their own moment:

Worlds Collide, our SYKY x British Fashion Council event, launched the Collective with Fanrui Sui’s Mettals, a phygital chrome handbag that sold out.

At Art Basel Miami, we celebrated GLITCHOFMIND with an intimate lunch in the gardens of Casa Tua.

At the opening night of London Fashion Week 2024, SYKY and the BFC spotlighted KWK by Kay Kwok, Taskin Goec, and the SYKY Collective.

At NFT Paris, alongside Polygon Labs, the Collective’s debut capsule collections by Stephy Fung and NEXTBERRIES transformed L’Espace Réaumur into a multi-dimensional fashion space.

And in collaboration with FVCKRENDER, Collective designer Calvyn Justus released shark-fin–inspired pants merging digital sculpture and high-performance athletic wear. A moment that epitomized SYKY’s ethos: digital creativity reshaping material fashion.

Each chapter marked a step closer to our central belief: digital designers are the next generation of fashion’s leading voices.

The Platform (2023–2025)

September 2023. SYKY opened its beta, a platform where designers could publish, sell, and share their work, and where collectors could discover the most forward-thinking creators in digital fashion. Over time we launched more features, refined our tools, and built SYKY Studio, our bespoke creator portal for uploading, publishing, and managing digital fashion pieces. It became the operational heart of the platform. Since launch, more than 800 designers joined SYKY — working across 3D, AI, mixed reality, animation, and experimental digital couture. Each was expanding the vocabulary of what fashion could be.

SYKY TOP 20 (October 2025). A celebration of the most visionary voices shaping this new landscape. Twenty designers redefining form, silhouette, and identity in the digital age. SYKY TOP 20 was a tribute to courage, experimentation, and long-term creative devotion.

We remain deeply grateful for the work, trust, and imagination they shared with us.

SYKY x Apple Vision Pro (2024)

In July 2024, SYKY began its journey into spatial fashion with Anrealage. The exclusive centerpiece, The Pyramid Dress, reimagined a gown originally created for Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour transformed into a structural, color-changing digital sculpture. It was Anrealage’s first piece designed fully for an immersive digital environment. The SYKY app invited users into the front row of luxury fashion, offering rare proximity to avant-garde ateliers and experimental silhouettes.

With the launch of the SYKY Showroom on Apple Vision Pro, we expanded fashion beyond screens into a spatial world. Users could explore, interact, and shop pieces in real time, experiencing work from Collective designers Pet Liger, Jacqueline Jade, and Taskin Goec in a new dimension of fashion storytelling.

The SYKY app transports consumers to the front row of the fashion industry and behind the doors of avant garde ateliers, offering them access to impeccable design and inspirational creativity with an immersive luxury experience.

SYKY Design Hour (2025)

SYKY’s community has always been the core of our mission. Together, we built a global space where designers could grow not only their skills, but their confidence, their networks, and their understanding of the industry’s future.

In January 2025, we launched SYKY Design Hour, a free, open program for creatives at every level. The first sessions were led by Taskin Goec, Harriet Davey, and Vanille Verloes, and over time Design Hour expanded to more than 10 workshops, becoming one of the most accessible education initiatives in digital fashion. This community — supportive, experimental, generous — became SYKY’s greatest achievement.

SYKY Magazine (2025)

SYKY Magazine was born from a need to give digital fashion the editorial depth it deserved. Designed to merge digital, physical, and augmented fashion, the short-form magazine puts cutting-edge creativity in the spotlight. Each issue featured next-gen artists who are redefining luxury, with stories told through a lens that’s as innovative as the work it showcases. 

Each cover was available exclusively on SYKY.com for a limited time, positioning digital fashion as more than just a medium. It’s redefining what luxury means in the digital age.

SYKY Magazine became our cultural backbone, a living record of creative ambition at a time when the world had no blueprint for what digital fashion could become.

Thank you!

SYKY was a platform to publish, test, sell, learn, and be seen at a moment when digital fashion had no clear market, language, or playbook.

Designers launched their first pieces. New workflows were tried in public. Careers moved forward. Relationships formed across disciplines, geographies, and generations.

As we wind down operations, this archive remains as documentation of that process: the designers who showed up early, the ideas that demanded new formats, and the community that treated digital fashion as practice.

SYKY helped making space for the people who will  define the future of fashion.

Thank you for being part of the work.