Quoting myself here, because I found a summary with more information on Discord:About Members-only outfits:
I read on /vt/ (this is a disclaimer), that Okayu paid for this new outfit herself
and that changes my perspective
Kiara previously said that Talents cant just buy new outfits for themselves, Company policy because that could lead to massive imbalances within the Company with Talents having many more outfits than others
But if buying a new outfit and having it restricted for Members-only is the compromise for that situation
Yeah, bit weird, but I will take it, give me more variety
Kiara would totally go for a members-only sleep gown thing like Calli or so, if it meant that it doesn't sacrifice another outfit chance
In the longer run, maybe that even means Cover is weakening their stance on Talents buying new Outfits, maybe they will let Kiara buy a new 3D outfit as well
-Management decided to let holos have full creative control and allow them to create their own model/outfits
-Multiple Holos are doing it, and Okayu happened to be the first one with a new model ready, so she's revealing it first
-She paid for it herself and directly worked with her mama and rigger
-Also decided to only use this model in members-only streams because she wanted to reward onigiriyaa, since it's thanks to them that she's able to do this
-Only the reveal stream will be public for now-Of course, this members only thing is exclusive to Okayu, it doesn't mean that the other girls will do the same
But I imagine some restrictions will still be in place, like not changing Hair colors of no cat ears for non-canon Cats and so on
If, what is said above is true, anyways, but I will remain optimistic