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 been working on virtual reality projects lately, transforming folk tales into VR narratives.
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Pro tip skip ahead to 4:30 in the video for the LED dresses (though the earlier ones still cool) .
To answer your question, Iulia, I can DEFINITELY see these being a hit at EDM music festivals or concerts. Glowing clothing has been slowly coming onto the scene since the raves of the 80s and 90s. What started with glowsticks and laser cat toys turned into LED hats and capes, shoes, glasses, lassos and other flashing toys. The outfits in the video take it to another level! But outside of Burning Man type events, or Dead shows, I am not sure these would be super popular.
Yep, in the video, the dresses start off a bit normal/dimmed, and then get brighter for effect! There definitely seems to be more of a market for LED clothes in live events and concerts, but it's exciting to see them shown on a huge stage, with such care for detail and design. I would love to see some LED clothes at InfoComm! @Paul Konikowski, CTS-D, CISSP
ok, I thought the early dresses were just made to look like screens, with pixelated color patterns, not actually LEDs, but its hard to tell viewing them on a monitor. I bet they look different in person. I look forward to your LED fashion show at Infocomm! ;P
Absolutely brilliant! (pun kind of intended)
Being the massive AV geek that I am, I already own LED light shoes (yes for adults!) and a purse and a few other items of clothing/accessories, but really they just light, change colors and blink/fade as I set them... Nothing to this level of interactivity or detail. My first question is, when can I get one? Even if they do look like Minecraft dresses in the light, they are still wicked cool.
That said, I agree with Paul that the EDM/festival/concert scene and massive events like Met Gala or other red carpet/runway type events will comprise the bulk of this market. That said, if they aren't wildly difficult to clean/care for, and they have a decent battery life or non-obtrusive power source (removable charging brick in the pocket, hello!) then I can see a wider class of nerdy types and folks who aren't afraid to stand out or be unique grasping the concept and running with it. Again.... when and where can I get one?!
#InfocommShowDuds #LightItUp!
@Dawn Meade I'm not sure if these are on sale at the moment, but I think it's a big step for LED clothes. Maybe we'll see more popping up in mainstream fashion over the years? I thought we'd have way more futuristic-looking clothes by now hahah but it would be fun to show up to InfoComm fitted in some LEDs! Where do you get your LED accessories? Are there any you would recommend?
You can buy one from the designer’s atelier, https://www.anrealage.com
@Kristi Ross-Clausen Thanks for including the website's link here!
@Dawn Meade The dresses should be in the "SCREEN" collection. I really like the plaid-patterned ones in that first image I attached in the article. And the ones with the starry skirts