Paris Fashion Week 2025: The LED Dress Stole the Show
Paris Fashion Week 2025 brought the fashion world’s most anticipated event, featuring bold and innovative designs for Fall-Winter 2025. While there were many highlights, Japanese label Anrealage truly pushed the envelope of fashion with their technological pieces.
They showcased a series of futuristic digital dresses, their designs interwoven with tiny LED “balls.” The integration of LED elements marked a bold leap forward, establishing a new benchmark for wearable tech.
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Technological Fashion: LED in Clothes
Designer Kunihiko Morinaga was the main mastermind behind the vibrant, shifting digital dresses. Though futuristic digital dresses have been in development for years, this is the first time they’ve been showcased at such a large scale utilizing this type of LED technology.
“Before, the design was always fixed, but now we can move the design,” Morinaga said in a New York Times article.
While other Paris Fashion Week designs used the same wool and cotton textiles that have circulated in the fashion industry for centuries, Morigana’s designs were a nod to the future.
How an LED Dress Works
Anrealage’s “SCREEN” collection works with MPLUSPLUS, a Japanese technology design studio, to embed approximately 10,000 full-color LEDs into textiles. The company developed fabric-based LCD panels that effortlessly integrate into jackets and outerwear.
Each LED dress was outfitted with a sensor and battery pack, allowing the display to be controlled from backstage. During the show, models walked side by side as colors swapped back and forth between their dresses.
For the grand finale, all the models stood together as their dresses morphed into the fuzz of a malfunctioning TV screen. The dresses’ patterns eventually transitioned into stained-glass imagery before exploding like stars into the vast universe and fading back to black.
“Fashion is something that never stops and is always moving and changing,” Morinaga stated in a Tomorrow’s World Today article.
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During Paris Fashion Week 2025, LED dresses captivated the audience. With their dynamic, glowing designs, these garments not only pushed creative boundaries but also set a new precedent for what’s possible in wearable art.
What do you think—will this be a passing fad or is LED clothing the next big thing? Let us know your thoughts below!
Photo Credit: Anrealage
A University of Central Florida double-alum with a Master’s in Digital Media, I'm a content creator who loves bringing people together over shared interests. As AVIXA's Coordinator of Digital Content, I produce articles on a myriad of technology topics. I've also worked on virtual reality projects, transforming Romanian folk tales into VR narratives.
