In Paris this week, Anrealage designer Kunihiko Morinaga lived up to his reputation for combining technical wizardry with craftsmanship.
His Paris Fashion Week show Tuesday, in a subterranean space beneath the city’s Palais de Tokyo venue, took his signature photochromic fabric technology—materials that dramatically change color under ultraviolet light—to even more extreme levels of innovation.
This season, his fabric of choice for the photochromic treatment was transparent, environmentally friendly “phthalate-free” PVC, in all manner of iterations. The collection was aptly titled “Invisible.”
First to take to the venue’s central podium were a series of puffer silhouettes, which were quilted with air instead of down or feathers. They were described by the show notes as resembling “couture bubble wrap.”
Models walked out individually or in pairs, first doing a circuit in regular lighting so the original state of the garments could be observed by showgoers. But then they positioned themselves on a central disc whereupon the lighti
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