The hero piece
Star one piece on the cast and the lookbook gains a close-up of that piece on the model. You pick the piece, the house picks the crop from its kind, the frame's instructions name it as the subject, and the grading holds that frame to the piece's own photograph instead of a full-body reference.
Every lookbook has a piece it exists to sell. The star is how you tell the house which one. The starred piece gets a close-up frame of its own, a sentence naming it as the subject of that frame, and a grading that reads the frame against its own photograph.
The hero piece →What you do
Cast your pieces as you always have. Under the cast, the strip headed "How we filed your pieces." now carries a star on each row, labelled "Highlight". Tap it and the label reads "Highlighted".
- One star per look. Starring a second piece moves the star; the look is never refused.
- Tap the star again to clear it. A look can always return to no hero.
- A set piece has no star. Furniture is not merchandise, so that row shows no control at all.
The moment the star lands, one line appears under the strip:
The lookbook gets a close-up of that piece on the model — one frame more.
The frame list and the total have already moved by the time you read it.
The crop is chosen for you
You are never asked which framing you want. The house derives it from the piece's kind — the tightest crop that can still show that kind of piece:
| The starred piece is | The frame it gets | Where it crops |
|---|---|---|
| a coat, dress, top, skirt, or the whole outfit | Fabric detail | collarbone to hip |
| shoes | Shoes and hem | knee down |
| a bag, jewellery, an accessory | Carried, brought forward | a medium frame, the piece to the front |
The third row exists because both tight crops withdraw bags, jewellery and accessories entirely — neither could show them. A medium frame with the piece brought forward is the closest register that can.
At the frame stage
The frame the star bought is already pressed in the set you confirm. It is an ordinary frame in the proposal: you can un-press it, and the total moves in front of you — 52 tokens, drop it, 39, put it back, 52.
Nothing is ever appended to a develop request behind you. The hero frame joins the proposal you confirm or it does not exist.
What the image model receives
One added sentence on the hero frame, naming the piece:
The subject of this photograph is the quilted shoulder bag shown in reference image 3. The frame is composed for that piece: it is the reason for the photograph, it is what must read, and every other piece in the frame is context around it.
The name is the one your library filed the piece under when it landed. You never typed it. A piece whose name never resolved falls back to its kind — a filename never reaches the model.
What the grading does differently
The house's read carries four references into every reading, ranked. Before this, on the tightest frame in the lookbook, the hero garment was the reference that got dropped — so the close-up was graded against a full-body frame of the same look rather than against the piece it sells.
On a hero frame, the piece now outranks everything except the model. A close-up that comes back with the wrong bag gets a verdict about that bag, read against the photograph you filed.
What it costs
One frame. A hero look is 6 frames instead of 5 — 13 tokens more at the standard size. It appears in the proposal with its price, and you can drop it before anything is spent. Nothing new is priced, and the house's read stays free.
Behaviour worth knowing
- A second star moves the star. It is normalised, not refused; your look never bounces.
- An unnamed piece falls back to its kind. The hero sentence still lands; only the noun is more general.
- A look with no star compiles exactly what it compiled before, frame for frame and token for token.
What this is not
- Not two heroes. One per look. Starring a second piece moves the star rather than adding one.
- Not a mid-thigh crop. A handbag reads best at mid-thigh, and that framing does not exist yet. A starred bag gets the medium frame instead.
- Not a hero for the whole collection. The star is per look; it does not follow a piece into the next lookbook.
- Not something you can say in the chat. No chat tool can create a look today, so the star lives on the screen.
The house's set
Your own furniture is castable. File the velvet sofa as a set piece, cast it into a look like a bag, and the house counts what you shoot on. Open a new lookbook and it may offer the piece your last three were shot on. One tap casts it, and nothing about it is billed.
How it's worn
A flatlay never says whether the shirt is meant to hang off the shoulder or sit on it, and it never says who it is cut for. The house reads both off the photograph as the piece lands, writes them on the piece rather than the job, and spends its magenta only where it had to guess.