Shayli Harrison is a fashion-tech designer and researcher at the Antwerp Royal Academy, where she explores how identity is constructed and expressed in gaming and virtual worlds. With over 17+ years of experience in the fashion industry, she has worked with such names as Swarovski, Björk, Manish Arora, The Smurfs, ABBA Voyage and more, merging pop culture with experimental design. She is also the founder of Mutani, a pioneering virtual-to-reality fashion brand that reimagines game characters and digital aesthetics as wearable collections. Through partnerships with game publishers, her work bridges subcultures, fandoms, and fashion tech – offering new ways to dress, play, and perform identity in hybrid spaces.