Kunihiko Morinaga envisions a future where clothing becomes an interactive medium, evolving in real time. ANREALAGE Fall Winter 2025.26 collection, “SCREEN” debuts at Paris Fashion Week, introduces garments that act as dynamic displays, shifting colors, patterns, and messages at the wearer’s command. This season turns fashion into an immersive experience, breaking traditional boundaries between fabric and digital expression.
Morinaga presents black clothing as a foundation for endless transformation. These garments serve as digital canvases, reflecting an ever-changing stream of visuals and information. Inspired by historical examples like sandwich-board men and slogan T-shirts, this concept reimagines fashion as a moving, reactive display. Wearers control their look in real time, accessing a vast library of downloadable RGB designs that shift and fade in an instant. Nothing remains static, each outfit adapts, ensuring no final version exists.
The show unfolds in the American Cathedral in Paris, accompanied by a custom soundtrack from Thomas Bangalter, formerly of Daft Punk. The collection progresses in two acts, revealing a shift from traditional craftsmanship to digital innovation.
The first act introduces silhouettes inspired by Roblox avatars, featuring blocky shapes that echo digital aesthetics. Light projections create temporary patterns on garments, later transformed into tangible textures through woven, patchwork, and quilted techniques. The designs also incorporate prints made using FOREARTH, a sustainable textile printer developed by KYOCERA. Footwear completes the look with 3D-printed square-block shoes constructed from bio-based PU material, reinforcing the futuristic approach.
A key moment in the collection bridges analog and digital techniques. A patchwork stained-glass ensemble, meticulously assembled from 10,000 tiny fabric scraps, stands beside its counterpart: a black velvet version embedded with technology. When activated, this second look lights up with a vivid stained-glass pattern, mirroring the rose windows of the cathedral, shifting from static to dynamic expression.
Knitted tops crafted from LED yarns in RGB colors emit jewel-like glows, enhancing the interactive nature of the garments. A striking visual moment unfolds as two models walk in unison, wearing identical black looks that pulse with shifting borders and stripes. These patterns migrate from one garment to the other, transforming into checkered motifs before separating back into their original designs. Over 60 pattern variations emerge within 30 seconds, demonstrating the limitless potential of reactive clothing.
Fabric behaves like a living surface, constantly shifting and dispersing patterns. Similar to a kaleidoscope, visuals bloom and dissolve, generating thousands of fleeting impressions. The garment seen moments ago no longer exists in the same form.
ANREALAGE pushes beyond traditional craftsmanship by integrating LED-LCD technology in collaboration with MPLUSPLUS. These garments act as second skins, adapting to personal expression in real time. The soft textiles can be folded, knitted, sewn, and draped, proving that interactive fashion does not sacrifice form or function. Rather than relying on static prints or fabric treatments, this technology allows wearers to exchange and share digital designs, shifting the concept of ownership in fashion. Each piece functions like a living billboard, turning the body into an active display.
The final looks return with their patterns in continuous motion. Synchronizing across multiple outfits, they transition through TV static, color bars, and graphic distortions. Textures cycle between bright pixels, monochrome patterns, and stained-glass visuals before fading back into black. The spectacle creates the impression of an expanding universe, where garments exist in a perpetual state of reinvention.
