By Alessandra Codinha of vogue.com
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Give or take the odd well-crafted cocoon coat or appealing chubby cropped knit, the silhouette was strong-shouldered and boxy, with fabric made of 1,000 pieces of patchwork, digitally printed Ultrasuede, or jacquards “coded” using a technique called visual cryptography, which Morinaga created in collaboration with computer programmer and artist Toru Urakawa.
The looks in the finale came with their own viewing screens, buckled-together semi-transparent panels to be strapped on like armor, or aprons, or accents, depending on the angle. The underlying fabric was made of an unassuming grayscale of discreet little black boxes, in turn made by, one assumes, all of those little 0s and 1s—as are, if you think about it, most of our lives and the visuals we create and consume every day. Here they were turned into skirtsuits and trousers, jackets and sheaths. And this is the thing with Anrealage: It can go as deep as you want to take it, or it can stay right on the surface, surfing its very own wave of white noise.
