Japanese fashion brand Anrealage presented clothes that will ensure social distancing in its latest collection on Tuesday, created in collaboration with architect Kengo Kuma.
Anrealage unveiled its 2021 spring/summer collection during Paris Fashion Week, which began Monday and will run through Oct. 6. Like many of the about 80 brands participating in this year's event, Anrealage showed its works digitally due to the pandemic. About 20% of the brands at Paris Fashion Week will actually hold shows in the city.
Anrealage showed 18 designs through video, including a roomy dress that can be changed into a two-meter-wide sphere or a pyramid-shaped tent by inserting rods. Designer Kunihiko Morinaga, 40, used fabric made of highly antiviral copper fiber, and Osaka-based textile manufacturer Shikibo Ltd. conducted additional processing that may help inactivate viruses.
"I designed fashions that can protect people by securing a space around them at this time when people are refraining from going out," Morinaga said.
Kuma, 66, said: "In the future, we'll need to create materials for constructoin that can be folded and carried like fabric. This collection symbolizes that move."
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