Lipstick hairpins on the Givenchy runway, and three AI video models split by the same prompt

The same prompt, the same four images, the same 10-second bullet-time video. Tony Assi of FASHN gave these conditions to three AI video models, Seedance 2.5, Kling O3 and Wan 3.0, and placed the results side by side. Bullet time is a technique in which the camera moves through a scene where time has stopped. It began with a 1998 Gap khakis ad, became widely known through The Matrix, and was revived as an internet meme this year.

The test scene is a New York subway platform. As a woman on the phone brushes past a commuter, time freezes, and the camera moves between floating sunglasses, a smoothie and a flip phone. The character and prop images were made in FASHN, and each prop carries a logo. For Kling and Wan, the same content was rewritten as prompts in the format each model accepts. Because the setup ties characters, props and camera path together in a single shot, it is designed to expose how differently each model interprets the same request.

Assi proposes treating the models as a medium rather than a tool to rank, and judging them by what the output does. In his analogy, Seedance is closer to sculpture, Kling to casting and Wan to painting. The article also publishes the prices, speeds and full prompts, so the test can be rerun under the same conditions.

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Sarah Burton's Givenchy SS27 collection featured a belt buckle resembling a powder compact and a hairpin shaped like a lipstick. It signals that the trend of turning beauty products into accessories worn on the body, rather than kept on the vanity, has spread to fashion houses. The starting point is considered to be Rhode's 2024 lip gloss phone case, which opened up an accessory category of its own, to the point that knockoffs appeared on Temu and AliExpress.

The cases that followed span a wide price range. ColourPop released a phone grip that holds a lip gloss, while Cocokind and Touchland launched bag charms holding lip gloss and hand sanitizer. Most are priced in the $10 to $40 range, but Dior included a lip gloss and phone grip in its holiday collection, and the $95 (about 130,000 won) Dior Medallion lip balm sold out and is listed on Poshmark for $280 (about 390,000 won). Balenciaga released a $490 (about 690,000 won) mini perfume bottle bag charm alongside its 2025 fragrance line, but it contains no actual perfume.

Mathilde Riba of trend analytics firm Spate explains that social media has pushed private routines into public feeds, and that branded beauty merchandise is an extension of that. In Spate's August data, the 'whimsical aesthetic' recorded about 200,000 Google searches per month on average and 55.2 million TikTok views per week on average. Fenty Beauty will launch a collection with Casetify, priced at $15 to $74, on October 28.

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RealDrop's Clip (image-to-video generation) applies a prompt or effect to a single image to create a short AI video, and lets you compare multiple versions side by side in a 4-cell grid. Even with the same shot, you can change the generation model and direction to gauge which movement fits best, which makes it useful for fashion visual creators who want to extend lookbook or product shots into videos for Reels and TikTok.

Once you set the input images, model, and prompt in a single panel, you can change the same conditions slot by slot to test variations.

You can play versions with different people, backgrounds, and lengths together on one screen, which makes it easier to pick a usable cut.

In RealDrop's Clip, you can run a single accessory shot, such as a lipstick hairpin or a perfume bottle charm, through multiple cells with the same prompt and compare how the camera movement between props differs in each version.