Anrealage Fall Winter 2025-2026 “Screen” of American Cathedral. Story by RUNWAY MAGAZINE. Photo Courtesy: Anrealage.
Kunihiko Morinaga has done it again. Anrealage, the Japanese label synonymous with boundary-pushing fashion and technology, delivered a collection that felt like an optical revolution. Presented in the hauntingly beautiful American Cathedral in Paris, the Fall/Winter 2025-2026 show was a collision of tradition and futurism, where kimonos met digital screens, and garments transformed into living mosaics of light.
A Black Canvas for the Future
This season, Morinaga introduced a radical concept: clothing as SCREEN—not just fabric, but an interface, a medium, a canvas of infinite change. The idea? Black garments serve as a digital blank slate, able to display any color, pattern, or message, shifting instantaneously like a dynamic billboard. The concept feels ripped from the pages of a cyberpunk novel, yet here it was, in full sartorial splendor.
For Anrealage, this wasn’t just an aesthetic exercise—it was a philosophical one. In a world where identities and digital avatars shift with the swipe of a finger, why should clothing remain static? With the help of LED textiles, RGB yarns, and cutting-edge collaborations, Morinaga’s garments became mutable, evolving in real time, never settling on a single form.
Light and Fabric: A New Kind of Couture
The show was structured in two acts. The first introduced silhouettes reminiscent of blocky, pixelated avatars, adorned with light patterns projected onto fabric—meticulously recreated by hand through traditional weaving, patchwork, and FOREARTH, a sustainable textile printer developed by Kyocera. Shoes? Not just shoes—3D-printed, robot-like, square-toed structures made of bio-based PU materials that looked like they stepped straight out of the metaverse.
But it was the stained-glass motif that stole the show. A painstakingly crafted patchwork look composed of 10,000 tiny fabric scraps stood side by side with its black velvet twin, which suddenly illuminated with digital stained-glass patterns, mirroring the luminous rose windows of the American Cathedral. A fashion moment, frozen in time—only to morph again in the next instant.
The collection built towards a crescendo of knitted LED tops sparkling like jewel-encrusted circuits. Two models walked in unison, their garments linked by migrating light patterns. One second: a crisp, checkered motif. The next: a pulsating optical frenzy of movement. Sixty different checkered combinations in just 30 seconds, creating a visual language that existed only in fleeting moments.
The Future of Fashion: A Living Screen
At its core, Anrealage’s “SCREEN” collection is a vision of wearable technology that doesn’t just follow trends—it reinvents the very definition of fashion. Working with MPLUSPLUS, the brand embedded approximately 10,000 full-color LEDs into textiles, developing fabric-based LCD panels that seamlessly integrated into knitwear, jackets, and outerwear. This is not the future—it’s already here.
The grand finale saw garments fully synchronized with TV static, color bars, and cascading digital mosaics, evoking a world where fashion is not just an industry but a communication tool. Patterns blinked, scattered, reformed, then faded back to black—a poetic reminder that in this era of digital fashion, nothing is ever truly final.
Fashion, technology, and conceptual art
Kunihiko Morinaga has long been a visionary, bridging the gap between fashion, technology, and conceptual art. But with the “SCREEN” collection, he takes the discourse further. In a time when digital and physical identities blur, where AI-generated fashion threatens craftsmanship, and where sustainability is no longer optional, Anrealage proposes an alternative reality—where clothing is alive, adaptable, and endlessly expressive.
Whether this technology will become mainstream remains to be seen. But one thing is certain: Anrealage has once again proven that fashion is more than fabric—it’s an idea, a vision, and, in this case, a screen of infinite possibilities.
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