The fabric printed by the sustainable inkjet textile printer “FOREARTH” was presented as a collaboration work by the fashion brand “ANREALAGE” at the Paris Fashion Week® Fall/Winter 2024-25.

Comment from Mr. Kunihiko Morinaga

The theme of this collection is “OBJECT”. I pursued the way of clothes for inanimate objects, not humans. The show has taken on the world 100 years from now, in the 22nd century, and I expressed what kind of clothes will be available and what kind of fashion shows will be held there. In this show, I tried to express the concept of FOREARTH to reduce water usage in the form of clothes, and I showed a dress like a drop of water. Clothes are usually made to fit the human body, but I thought of the perfect sphere as the human body and made a frilly dress to wrap around the sphere. The dress itself looks like a drop of water when the sphere is wearing the dress, but when you peel it off the sphere, it turns into a dress that people wear. In all my years of making clothes, I thought it was natural to use a lot of water for prints, and I thought that using water would keep the colors, vibrant expression, and texture of the fabric. However, I was very impressed that the fabric printed with FOREARTH achieves the vibrant and high-definition expression even though it uses very little water, and that the texture of the textile itself is not spoiled at all and the softness of the fabric was maintained. I think new technology is necessary for evolution of not only fashion but also creation. FOREARTH enables us to express what we have not been able to achieve before, and it is very important for our own creation that this will lead to the future, the 22nd century.