ANREALAGE Blended Science Fiction With Fashion for FW26
Creating digital garments that transformed to mimic their backgrounds.
ANREALAGE’s Fall/Winter 2026 show confronted the contemporary question surrounding living in an internet age. Does it expand your consciousness or contain it? Yesterday, designer Kunihiko Morinaga took the concept of thermoptic camouflage (from author Masamune Shirow’s anime Ghost In The Shell) and transformed it into real life.
Morinaga, along with his team, spent six months perfecting the programming of these LED garments so that they could transform to mirror their background runway projections. This made them seem to disappear into the surroundings, just like a chameleon. This blend of science fiction and fashion felt incredibly fresh and something we may be seeing much more of in the coming seasons.
The avatar-like silhouettes moved down the runway, clad in body armor and robotics, with a palette representing the Fortnite colors of blurred neons. Code, circuits and prosthetics were used in an almost elegant manner, while references were made to pre-digital eras with prairie shirts and fringed denim adding a human essence. Face jewelry and metallic nails mimicked interface hardware and the cyberpunk aesthetic from Ghost In The Shell that started it all.
The technologically advanced collection brought both digital and analogue aspects to the forefront in a creatively relevant mirroring of today’s landscape. Check out some of the looks above.
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