The house's set

A house shoots on its own furniture. The velvet sofa, the ash stool, the one bench every campaign sits on: objects nobody wears, that belong to the house rather than to a look. A set piece is how you tell the house about one. You file it like any other piece, cast it like a bag, and the house counts what you shoot on.

The house's set →

Filing a set piece

Upload a photograph of the object and file it in your library as a set piece. It is its own kind, beside clothes, accessory, jewelry, model, background and mark; the chip on the tile reads set.

It is filed by kind rather than by its name, and here the distinction carries real weight. "Chair" and "stool" appear inside garment names, so the name proves nothing. The kind is what decides the sentence a frame is built from: a set piece is described as an object standing in the room, a garment as something she is wearing. A dress wrongly filed as a set piece would be put on the floor as furniture.

Casting it

Cast it into a look exactly as you cast a bag. It costs one of the look's six pieces, and it rides every frame as a reference of its own, carrying an instruction that it is an object standing in the room, not something worn. It is held to its own photograph: same form, same proportions, same materials, same finish. Not a plausible sofa. That sofa.

One label on the look is deliberately fixed: the role chip on a set piece cannot be corrected there. It is the one label that decides whether the object is worn at all, and a mis-tap would put your dress on the floor as furniture. Change it where you file the piece, in the library.

How a piece rides each frame, the mention built from its own name and what the judge is shown are covered in how props travel.

The offer

Open a new lookbook and, before you choose anything, the house may say:

Your last three lookbooks were shot on the velvet sofa. Bring it into this one?

[ Cast the sofa ] · Not now

This costs nothing.

One tap adds the piece to this look's cast, the same as picking it by hand would. Nothing develops and nothing is charged; the look still develops only when you say so.

The rule behind the offer is one line: a piece is offered while it appears in at least two of your last three lookbooks. There is no settings screen and no stored preference. Declining does not add a cast, so two declines push the piece below its own threshold and the offer stops on its own. The window is counted in lookbooks rather than days, because a house that shoots twice a year would never clear a day window.

When the offer stays silent

Every refusal has a named reason. Three belong to this feature:

• Nothing recurs. No piece was cast in two of your last three lookbooks.
• Already cast. The piece is in this look's cast, and the house does not point at what you can already see.
• No readable name. An upload that never earned a name, an IMG_4471, is never offered. The house does not offer a thing it cannot name.

The rest are the chat's standing manners, not this feature's own: the house waits through your first hour, stops after it has spoken twice in a session, waits while you are typing, and holds the line while the chat is closed, speaking when you return. See the house speaks first.

Seated poses

A pose that presupposes a seat and a set piece are a pair. With a seat cast, the frame's own header names your piece instead of the studio floor: seated on the velvet sofa shown in the reference images. With none cast, the pose falls back to a seated-on-the-floor variation, and the frame records that the fallback happened.

What yields is the pose, never the piece: she sits on the floor sooner than on furniture nobody owns, and a piece you cast is never silently dropped.

With nothing cast

A look with no set piece carries an explicit instruction against inventing furniture: nothing stands in the frame that is not already in one of the reference images. The instruction is anchored to the references rather than to a flat "no furniture", because a director who uploads a photograph of her own furnished showroom as the ground has already cast that furniture, and a flat ban would argue with her own image.

What it costs

Nothing new. Uploading a sofa is an ordinary upload, casting it is a decision, and the piece rides a frame you are already paying for. No new price appears anywhere.

What this is not

• A catalogue. The house offers your own pieces only, counted from your own lookbooks. There is no furniture to shop from.
• Placement. "The sofa is camera-left, she sits on the right arm" cannot be said yet. You decide whether the piece is in the cast; the frame decides where it stands.
• A per-collection count. The count covers the whole house. If two collections shoot on different furniture, the busier piece wins the offer, and the wrong sofa is one tap to uncast.
• Something the chat can act on. The offer speaks in the chat; the casting happens on the screen. The chat cannot create a lookbook today.