A pulsing “♥”: at once a symbol of love and vitality, each beat marks out a unique being – life force crystalized into form.
For Spring/Summer 2026, Kunihiko Morinaga honors the power of art to transcend boundaries through a collaboration with HERALBONY[1], a creative company based in Tokyo, Paris, and Morioka, empowering artists with disabilities to thrive and reframe perception.
Drawing on the passion and sincerity these creatives bring to their practice, the collection celebrates openness to new perspectives as eighteen artists contribute heartfelt works. Garments transform into canvases alive with boundless land-scapes, intimate impressions of deeply personal inner worlds. Patterned with prints produced by KYOCERA’s sustainable textile printer FOREARTH[2], each piece emerges as a spontaneous act of creation and a singular visualization of being.
Anrealage
Clothes burst with emotion as their motifs and shapes stir into life, an extraordinary, whimsical eruption of wired flounces that recall baroque and psychedelic primitive organisms. A dress swells like a heart, while hems of voluminous skirts, jackets and capes undulate as if alive, each a distinct entity. Accessories extend the vision: feline-shaped handbags with metronomic tails, developed with robotics startup Yukai Engineering Inc., inspired by the robotics product Qoobo, recall the soothing embrace of a purring cat.
Continuing last season’s collaboration with Thomas Bangalter, the soundtrack ̶ created with HERALBONY ̶ layers the rhythm of a heartbeat against quotidian ‘noises’ made by people with disabilities. The organic, evocative soundtrack underscores what it means to be human in an age increasingly shaped by AI and technology.
Building on the ethos of his Anrealage label, Morinaga uses clothing to probe the frontiers of perception: how each being experiences its environment in unique ways. Two parallel worlds, two different visions; how we see, and how others see. The viewer is invited to ask why we perceive different landscapes from the same place. Where does the boundary lie, and what is revealed when it is crossed? Fashion thus becomes a vessel for the heartbeat, honoring the beauty of difference as the purest celebration of life and resilience.
[1] HERALBONY is a creative company redefining culture through art by challenging preconceptions of disability. Managing the art licenses of over 250 artists with intellectual disabilities worldwide, it ensures fair royalties while empowering creators and helping brands communicate on diversity and inclusion.
Founded in Japan, the company expanded globally in 2024 with HERALBONY EUROPE, based at Station F in Paris. Its pioneering work has earned international recognition, including a 2024 LVMH Innovation Award (Employee Experience, Diversity & Inclusion) and a Gold Lion (Glass: The Lion for Change) at the 2025 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Through co-creation with leading organizations, HERALBONY continues to build a global platform that connects artists with disabilities and society, harnessing art’s power to reframe perceptions and open new cultural possibilities.
[2] As FOREARTH reduces water usage in textile printing to near zero, it eliminates the need for separate facilities for conventional preand post-treatment processes such as steaming and washing, thereby cutting energy consumption and CO₂ emissions significantly. At the same time, it preserves the natural softness of key fabrics widely used in the textile and apparel industries, while enabling high-definition printing on a broad range of materials including cotton, silk, polyester, nylon, and blended fabrics.
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