ANREALAGE AUTUMN/WINTER 2026–27 COLLECTION “GHOST”
Within the subterranean architecture of Ircam, where sound is rendered almost visible, Kunihiko Morinaga considers disappearance not as absence, but as form. The reference is Ghost in the Shell by Mamoru Oshii—a world in which the body does not vanish, but dissolves, refracted into its surroundings until identity itself becomes unstable.
Morinaga translates this into clothing that no longer defines the body, but destabilises it.The runway operates as system rather than stage—a saturated field of code, light and fractured imagery. Silhouettes emerge bold and exoskeletal, only to dissolve as their reactive surfaces, developed with LED TOKYO, absorb and retransmit their environment. At the moment of synchronisation, the outline disappears. The body persists only in motion—never fixed, never fully seen.
Against this erasure, a counterpoint of excess unfolds. Voluminous, Seventies-inflected silhouettes—romantic, flamboyant, unapologetically present—collide with engineered precision. Antenna-like adornments suggest transmission, extending the body into interface. If invisibility is one future, amplification is its opposite. Materials resist stability. Florals blur into digital noise; fragments of Ghost in the Shell dissolve into code and circuitry. Textiles produced with KYOCERA’s FOREARTH technology achieve painterly softness without water—presence emerging through absence.
Everything shifts. Nothing resolves. By the finale, even the environment recedes. The screen merges with architecture until it disappears entirely. A final act of absorption. What remains is a question.
If the body can dissolve, if identity is no longer anchored but dispersed, what endures? Morinaga offers only this: To dress is no longer to express identity. It is to negotiate its visibility. And somewhere within that negotiation, a trace persists — A ghost, perhaps.
