Anrealage Spring/Summer 2025 / SS25 at Paris Fashion Week
What does WIND look like? Building on his legacy of exploring frontiers between fashion and technology, Kunihiko Morinaga for Anrealage Spring/Summer 2025 contemplates the art of dressing ̶ and undressing ̶ with help from the WIND, using the natural movement of air to breathe life into clothing, sculpt new silhouettes and render the invisible visible.
Offering a characteristically playful technological solution to increasingly scorching summers in Japan and beyond, the designer conjures a ‘cool-wear’ wardrobe that literally refreshes. Shaped by WIND and yet windproof, these pieces ̶ designed in collaboration with KUCHOFUKU for Anrealage Spring/Summer 2025, a Japanese pioneer in fan-equipped, air-conditioned utilitarian garments ̶ are cut from a specially developed airtight material made from the thinnest of nylon fabrics, weighing no more than 23 grams per square meter, and woven from threads so fine they measure about one-third the thickness of a hair.
With the click of a button, WIND generated by tiny, embedded fans inflate dresses to Un-Real proportions, evoking creatures from another world. Like windsocks, looks sprout unexpected forms, such as wings or bubble volumes. Windbreaker jackets in graphic color-block combinations both contain the WIND and protect against it, transforming garments into thermo-protective shields, while startling ‘couture’ looks in windproof organza and bonded tweed offer a quirky spin on formal dress, the clothes blowing up into extraordinary full forms or hanging softly in a cascade of delicate draping guided by gravity.
In Anrealage SS25, A selection of looks produced using Kyocera’s FOREARTH sustainable inkjet printing technology with water-free concept feature vibrant abstract motifs that form shifting patterns. Like magical colored clouds, their WIND-filled shapes constantly evolve from their initial natural state, flowing like petals as the models cross the runway, their whimsical ventilated volumes dancing in the air. Blending fun with technological solutions to adapt to the new challenges of life on Earth, Kunihiko Morinaga’s poetically bizarre and deeply positive vision of the future once again tickles the imagination, opening the door to a surreal yet viable universe. The Real World meets the Un-Real World, propelled by the invisible, unpredictable force that is the WIND.
Features of the inkjet textile printer “FOREARTH”. As “FOREARTH” dramatically reduces water usage in textile printing next to zero, it does not require separate facilities such as for steaming and washing needed in pre- and post-treatment processes of conventional textile printing. This will also contribute to a significant reduction in energy consumption and CO2 emissions. Furthermore, it achieves a soft texture maintaining softness of the fabric that are important in the textile and apparel industries, and enables high-definition printing on a wide range of fabrics such as cotton, silk, polyester, nylon, and blended fabrics.
KUCHOFUKU, invented by SFT LABORATORY CO.,LTD,, is fan-equipped, air-conditioned utilitarian garments. Our bodies are equipped with a natural cooling system to maintain a healthy temperature. This mechanism is sweating when our body temperature rises, the brain sends signals to trigger sweat production. This system becomes even more effective when combined with the heat absorbed during evaporation, known as the latent heat of vaporization, which helps cool the body.
All images Anrealage Spring/Summer 2025 / SS25 by Anrealage. Designer Kunihiko morinaga (anrealage), Show direction Shige kaneko, Stylist Teppei, Music producer Jakops (simon junho park) Music “aventure” Prod by jakops Composed & arranged by Jakops (simon junho park), Hair Kiyoko odo, Make up Aurore gibrien, Head accessories Tomoya nakagawa (vanity projects), Shoes Tomoya nakagawa × magarimono, Casting director Sylvie gueguen, Global press PR Consulting, Show productionEyesight, Lighting design Pascal maucuit, Show call Takahiro komatsu (watowa inc.), Show assistants Moe rachel hoshima (shige kaneko co., ltd.) Rero garcia (shige kaneko co., ltd.), Stylist assistant Momoka nakajima, Photo Koji Hirano.