So, developer Epic Games and luxury fashion house Balenciaga have come together for a $725 hoodie Fortnite hoodie. Yup, a hoodie. Well, there are $395 baseball caps and $495 t-shirts, too, if you’re on a tight budget. Plus a denim jacket for the ultra-low price of $1290!
This collaboration between Balenciaga and Fortnite features real-world clothing items and digital fits. The former is available via Balenciaga’s store, while the latter is on Fortnite’s in-game item shop. So if you desperately want a white hoodie with the game’s logo on it for your characters, a few V-Bucks won’t dig into your life savings quite as bad as the physical counterpart.
Check out the Balenciaga x Fortnite collaboration event trailer for yourself below.
The Balenciaga x Fortnite character skins include:
- Game Knight Outfit
- Unchained Ramirez Outfit
- Fashion Banshee Outfit
- Shady Doggo Outfit
There’s also a pickaxe, back bling, gliders, wraps, pickaxes, sprays, and emotes from Balenciaga for the in-game event, which runs from now until Sept. 28.
Epic Games also encourage players to strut their stuff in the Strange Times Square, a virtual Balenciaga store created for the event.
Ready to express yourself? To celebrate @balenciaga coming to Fortnite, we want to see how YOU express yourself in unexpected ways with a live lookbook campaign.
Share your images using #Fortography and #StrangeTimeshttps://t.co/hE5cAIzozZ pic.twitter.com/cnHil0EXx9
— Fortnite Creative (@FNCreate) September 20, 2021
“The Strange Times Featured Hub constructs a virtual Balenciaga store in line with real ones — but set in an unexpectedly strange city,” Epic Games said on Fortnite’s official website. “You can hang out with other fashionable friends, change your look with Changing Booths, and even pick up Balenciaga Fit Outfits straight from the Hub itself!”
Apparently, the best-dressed characters might get featured on billboards around Strange Times Square. It’s all a bit weird, but Fortnite is always bizarre these days.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
