Second Life’s fashion industry is one of the biggest
on-grid industries, following suit of the Real-World fashion industry. The
industry has developed into a mass market, generating buzz offline in glitterati
circles brimmed with big Real-World fashion names. Within this ever-growing
mega industry, few individuals that sashays to the forefront of the fashion
industry, takes off with it.
Second life fashion industry has catapulted the careers
of designers, fashion bloggers, and most importantly, its models. One name in
particular that takes the cake for me is the fabulous and humble Ava Jhamin.
Miss Ava has graced over 200 fashion show runways within the Second Life
platform. She started her career as most SL models tend to-fashion and
model-specific academic training; as second life is filled with a cornucopia of
fashion-specific academies to accommodate the further blossoming of the Second
Life fashion industry. She attended a number of schools to hone her craft, but
as she paints her past with the number of academies she attended she only found
one in the lot that was satisfactory, after having spent 60,000L as part of her
adventure to find an academy with a substantial curriculum. As I expressed my complete
shock and disgust, she soothes my pain with the mention of her own venture with
fashion academia-L’amour brand.