KYOCERA Document Solutions
FOREARTH Selected for ANREALAGE’s Spring/Summer 2027 Collection Presented at Paris Fashion Week ～Supporting the Expression of the “SKIN” Theme Through Sustainable Textile Printing～
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. (President: Takashi Nagai) is pleased to announce that fabrics printed using its sustainable inkjet textile printer, FOREARTH, were featured in garments presented by fashion brand ANREALAGE at its Spring/Summer 2027 collection showcased during Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France, on September 29, 2026.
This marks the sixth collaboration between ANREALAGE and Kyocera. Through their ongoing partnership, the two companies continue to explore new possibilities at the intersection of fashion and sustainability. This collection was also ANREALAGE's 25th presentation at Paris Fashion Week.
First look featuring FOREARTH prints
The theme of this collection is “SKIN.” By viewing clothing as a “second skin” that envelops the human body, the collection reexamines the relationship between the body and garments while proposing a new form of expression that merges fashion and technology.
Presented at Maison de la Radio, one of Paris’s most iconic cultural venues and a gathering place for music, art, and media, the show attracted significant attention through its innovative fusion of fashion, technology, and music. Highlights included the use of electronic paper technology and an original musical score by Thomas Bangalter, former member of Daft Punk, creating a unique and immersive experience that brought the collection’s “SKIN” concept to life.
Of the 35 looks presented in the collection, 27 featured various stretch fabrics printed using FOREARTH. Since 2024, ANREALAGE and FOREARTH have collaborated in pursuit of creative expression unconstrained by material or design limitations. For this collection, FOREARTH precisely reproduced graphic patterns characterized by vivid colors and bold contrasts. Highly saturated shades of blue, green, and pink were rendered with striking intensity, while the outlines of intricate motifs remained sharp. By accurately translating the designer's distinctive vision onto fabric, FOREARTH contributed to the creation of garments that embodied the “SKIN” theme.
FOREARTH utilizes proprietary technology that significantly simplifies conventional textile printing processes, including pre- and post-treatment, enabling high-definition printing through printing and drying alone. Its “Water Free Concept” minimizes water consumption during textile printing, helping reduce the environmental impact of wastewater. At the same time, its high-definition printing technology enables subtle tonal gradations and a broad range of color expression.
The collection made extensive use of blended materials containing polyester, rayon, and polyurethane. These fabrics combine supple stretch and recovery with cool-touch and wrinkle-resistant properties, making them comfortable to wear across three seasons: spring, summer, and autumn. Thanks to its versatility across a wide range of fabrics, FOREARTH can deliver high-quality printing even on such functional materials.
The project also explored printing on seersucker fabric,* which has a textured, puckered surface, opening up new possibilities for textile expression unconstrained by material or design limitations.
At the venue, original scarves printed with FOREARTH were distributed to guests so they could experience its expressive capabilities firsthand. By handling the scarves, guests were able to appreciate FOREARTH's vivid color reproduction while retaining the fabric's natural texture and feel.
| * | Seersucker fabric: A woven fabric characterized by a distinctive puckered surface. Because it reduces the area of contact with the skin, it offers a light, comfortable feel and is commonly used for spring and summer apparel. |
Scarf distributed at the exhibition venue
■Comment from Kunihiko Morinaga, Designer of ANREALAGE
The theme of this collection is “SKIN.” It explores the intersection between the physical meaning of skin and scales found in living organisms and the concept of digital game skins that can be endlessly transformed in virtual spaces. Through this fusion, the collection expresses a surface that can be continuously rewritten and reshaped.
For this collection, we aimed to create garments that function like a second skin, closely conforming to the body. To achieve this, we printed graphics onto highly stretchable fabrics. Traditionally, pigment printing on elastic materials has been challenging, as prints can crack or become stiff, restricting the natural flexibility of the fabric. With FOREARTH, however, the printed surface stretches together with the material, enabling textile expressions that move seamlessly with the body and feel like a true second skin.
The collection also draws inspiration from the way fish scales reflect light. We sought to capture the vivid RGB color palette unique to digital environments, and FOREARTH faithfully reproduced these brilliant colors, allowing us to realize our vision with remarkable accuracy.
ANREALAGE and Kyocera’s FOREARTH have collaborated for six consecutive seasons. While each season has explored a different creative theme, a common question has always connected our work: How should we create? Our collaboration has never been solely about producing compelling designs. It has also been about continually questioning the responsibility behind the methods of making them. Looking back on these three years and six seasons, we feel that this partnership has been an effort not only to reduce environmental impact, but also to uphold a broader sense of social responsibility in manufacturing and creative production. By pursuing both sustainability and creative freedom, FOREARTH has opened up new possibilities for our work.
The inspiration for this season’s theme, SKIN, began with a single fish scale. As we explored this motif, our thoughts naturally expanded to the ocean, water, and the global environment. For a collection born from these reflections, it carries special significance that we were able to realize our ideas through FOREARTH’s printing technology, which dramatically reduces water consumption compared with conventional textile printing methods.
In addition, the scarves distributed at the venue featured a design that brought together textile patterns from all 25 ANREALAGE collections presented in Paris, arranged like a patchwork. FOREARTH faithfully reproduced the highly intricate artwork containing countless colors and visual details. Furthermore, what would traditionally be expressed as a thick and heavy patchwork was instead printed onto a sheer chiffon fabric made from ultra-fine cupro yarn. This allowed us to express the concept as a light, soft, and translucent textile while preserving the richness and complexity of the original design.
■About FOREARTH
Traditionally, textile and apparel production has relied on large amounts of water during processes such as steaming and washing fabrics. The resulting wastewater has become a global environmental concern due to its impact on water pollution. In addition, the industry faces growing challenges related to overproduction and the disposal of excess inventory. To help address these issues, Kyocera developed FOREARTH, an inkjet textile printing system built around three key concepts:
1）Water Free Concept
FOREARTH reduces water consumption during textile printing to virtually zero*, eliminating the need for large-scale pre- and post-treatment equipment and steamers required in conventional textile printing processes. As a result, it also contributes to significant reductions in both energy consumption and CO₂ emissions.
2）Creative Free
FOREARTH preserves the soft texture and feel that are highly valued in the textile and apparel industry while enabling high-definition printing on a wide variety of fabrics, including cotton, silk, polyester, nylon, and blended materials.
3）Location Free
Because FOREARTH does not rely on water-intensive textile printing processes, it can be installed in a wider range of locations. By enabling production in the right place and at the right scale, it helps reduce logistics costs and excess inventory.
Kyocera's water-based pigment ink, Picfy, and the associated pre- and post-treatment agents used with FOREARTH have obtained ECO PASSPORT certification, an international certification demonstrating compliance with stringent standards for harmful substances. They have also received approval from IDFL, a certification body, as materials permitted for use in the manufacturing process of certified products under Scope 4 of the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS), an international standard for organic textile products. In addition to supporting safety and environmental responsibility, these certifications contribute to sustainable manufacturing, including the production of organic textile products.
| * | FOREARTH completes the entire textile printing process with only printing and drying. No water is used during the printing process itself, achieving a water-free printing workflow. The system also minimizes water consumption for equipment maintenance through a circulating belt-cleaning system, which filters and reuses cleaning water. As a result, water usage has been reduced to 0.02 liters per kilogram of fabric (Kyocera research, 2022). |
■ About the FOREARTH Inkjet Textile Printer
For more information about FOREARTH, please visit: FOREARTH Product Page
＜List of collections presented at Paris Fashion Week＞
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*Fabrics printed with FOREARTH were used in looks 1-7, 9, 12-18, 20-31.
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