'Ready-to-wear' Diablo 4 clothes at Milan Fashion Week seem unwearable, have nothing to do with Diablo 4

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When I think 'Diablo,' I think 'fashion'. Between the unmatched zaddy energy of Deckard Cain and the effortless drip of the necromancer(opens in new tab), it's both a crime and a mystery that the fashion world has so far turned a blind eye to the sartorial perfection of Blizzard's beloved ARPG series. Well, no longer. A recent tour de force at Milan Fashion Week, which concludes today, has finally made the obvious match with a show «inspired by the dark side and complimentary conflict» of Diablo 4(opens in new tab).

The clothes were designed by Danish fashion house Han Kjøbenhavn, and centred around a theme of «hell as a beautiful place». The brand's creative director, Jannik Wikkelsø Davidsen, said the match-up between the fashion company and Blizzard was a natural one, and it was their shared «emotional DNA» that compelled him to swaddle an innocent supermodel in a chrome(?) recreation of the Olympic flame.

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The featured clothing makes use of all sorts of materials—vegan leather, faux fur, chrome, and pearls—to tell a fashion story that tries to «mirror the journey within Diablo as well as my own journey,» Davidsen told NME(opens in new tab). In other interviews, he's mentioned that he deliberately set out to avoid creating a «one-to-one» imitation of in-game skins, instead trying to «translate emotion into something that can exist within our world». That's a pretty generous definition of «can exist within our world,» if you ask me. The neighbourhood children would run me out of my home if I started caping about town in some of this stuff.

I have to admit the whole thing seems a bit baffling to me, but I still buy my socks at