HERALBONY makes its debut at Paris Fashion Week in collaboration with ANREALAGE.

On September 30, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. local time, the brand HERALBONY, operated by HERALBONY Co., Ltd., presented collaborative looks during ANREALAGE’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection runway show at Paris Fashion Week. The show featured 22 artworks created by 18 contracted HERALBONY artists, bringing vibrant, life-filled expressions to the runway.

The venue, Palais de Tokyo, a globally renowned hub for contemporary art located along the Seine in Paris, set the stage for this remarkable collaboration. Music for the show was composed by Thomas Bangalter, formerly of Daft Punk. An original soundtrack was crafted by layering the everyday sounds and heartbeats of artists with disabilities, resonating with the theme of art infused with vitality.

“Visualization of Life”

When I encountered the artists, I felt I had touched an unseen, sacred presence. What they created was not mere art, but the crystallization of life itself.

As naturally as breathing, with overwhelming force and beauty, their works came into being. Within the ordinary everyday, an unimaginable non-everyday was hidden.

The world they see.

The inner landscape that unfolds within them̶how vast, how unknown, how boundless it is. I stood only at its entrance.

How does the world appear to them?

How does it appear to us?

Why, while standing in the same place, are the landscapes different? What is the boundary that divides this world?

When that boundary is crossed, what emerges is the pure form of life.

The ♡ expresses heartbeat, heart, the very center of life.

Each heartbeat is unique, proof of being alive, the essence of individual existence.

Through fashion, I want to make this existence visible.

To let clothing hold life.

To wear the formless heartbeat.

The dresses swelled as if echoing a heartbeat, while the hems of jackets and capes rippled as though infused with life. Each garment rose as a vessel of vitality, moving in rhythm with the pulse of existence.

“The scenery we see” and “the scenery others see.” Why do different landscapes appear when looking from the same place? Where do the boundaries lie, and what emerges when we cross them?

ANREALAGE designer Kunihiko Morinaga focused on the idea that even within the same world, we perceive different views—an exploration that gave rise to a vision of the beauty found in difference.

Following the previous season, Thomas Bangalter, co-founder of Daft Punk who performed with the group for over 30 years, once again composed the show’s soundtrack.

Inspired by this collection and moved by HERALBONY’s “ROUTINE RECORDS” initiative, Bangalter created an original soundtrack incorporating the everyday sounds of HERALBONY’s contracted artists. The composition enveloped the show venue with a deeply immersive atmosphere.

Blending the daily “sounds” produced by people with intellectual disabilities with the rhythms of the human heartbeat, the music emerged as an organic and emotionally resonant piece. At a time when AI and technology are gaining increasing presence, it powerfully illuminated the very essence of “what it means to be human.”

*The soundtrack features the sounds of 17 participating artists from this collection, excluding contributions from Kiyoshi Yaegashi, who passed away in 2023.

Among the 18 HERALBONY contracted artists featured in the show, Shu Toriyama and Momoko Nakagawa of Yamanami Kobo attended the runway presentation from the front row. At the finale, introduced by ANREALAGE designer Kunihiko Morinaga, the two artists stood to receive a rousing ovation and cheers from the audience filling the venue.

Look1《One’s Mental State No. 3》Kojo Takahiro

Look2《(Mudai) (Untitled) 》Sanae Sasaki

Look3《Idol Train Expo 2016》Takuma Hayakawa

Look5《Expand》Shu Toriyama

Look12《Untitled》Ryo Nakao

Look13《Untitled》Takafumi Yamane

Look14《Origami》Michiyo Yaegashi

Look15《Untitled》Shigaku Mizukami

Look17《(Mudai) (Untitled) 》Sanae Sasaki

Look18《Hanyu-no-yado(My Sweet Home)》Satoru Kobayashi

Look19《Joms Nakashima’s Jazz Dream Tour with Merkel and Johnson》Ikkei Okukameya

Look20《(Untitled) (House)》Kiyoshi Yaegashi

Look21《Untitled》Shigaku Mizukami

Look22《The Map of Numbersaurus》Uchiyama.K

Look23《A Ballad of Youth》Keisuke Mori

Look24 《Untitled》Momoko Nakagawa

Look25 《Castle》 Misaki Oya

Look26 《Momoko》Momoko Nakagawa

Look27 《Untitled》Atsuhito Fujiki

Look28 《One’s Mental State No. 3》Kojo Takahiro

Look29 《Attention》Daisuke Shibuta

Look30 《(Mudai) (Untitled) 》Midori Kudo

All collection looks, featured artworks, and participating artists are introduced on the dedicated ANREALAGE × HERALBONY collaboration page.

https://pfwss26.heralbony.com/en/

The fabrics for this collection’s looks were produced using “FOREARTH,” the sustainable textile inkjet printer developed by Kyocera Document Solutions, in the garment printing process. The intricate details of artworks created by HERALBONY’s contracted artists were faithfully reproduced.

Each artwork carries its own unique expression—variations in brush pressure, strokes, and color tones. Thanks to FOREARTH’s distinctive capability for precise ink control, these subtle nuances were captured, enabling production that honors the original essence of the artworks.

＜About FOREARTH＞

Kyocera Document Solutions’ FOREARTH is an environmentally friendly textile inkjet printer that reduces the water usage required for conventional dye-based analog textile printing by 99.98%. With a concept and technology focused on protecting water—an essential resource for life—FOREARTH contributes to reducing the environmental impact of the textile industry.

■ Learn more about the textile inkjet printer FOREARTH here.

https://www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.com/en/our-business/industrial/textile-printing/index.html

“Takaya,Fumito, do you have a hamburger?!”

“Nooope!”

When we were children, our brother Shota often asked questions that made no sense. Our answer was always the same

—“Nooope!”— and it never failed to send him into laughter.

We never knew what it meant to him, but we were simply happy to see him laugh.

Shota, our elder brother, who lives with autism and a severe intellectual disability, and we, the twins, grew up always by his side.

Even now, we cannot let go of the feelings from those days.

And yet one thing is certain: he laughed with the purest joy.

That moment was crystalline—it felt as if time itself had become beauty.

The world’s most prestigious stage of beauty: 

Paris Fashion Week.

Through the clothes of Kunihiko Morinaga, the works of artists with disabilities were set free upon the runway.

What will humanity now call “beautiful”?

We believe the truth of beauty, sought endlessly by humankind, resides in “♡.”

To commemorate the collection, we will be releasing collaboration items with ANREALAGE. Among them are T-shirts featuring the collection title written by Shota, the elder brother and co-representative of HERALBONY, as well as ANREALAGE’s signature ball shirts, newly reimagined with the artworks of 18 artists whose creations were featured in the collection’s looks.

About the Collaboration Items

Items: ANREALAGE × HERALBONY Ball Shirt, ANREALAGE × HERALBONY T-Shirt

Sales Method: Made-to-order

Estimated Delivery: Late March 2026

Available at: https://heralbony.com/collections/anrealage-heralbony-item

Designer: Kunihiko Morinaga. Born in 1980 in Kunitachi, Tokyo. Graduated from the School of Social Sciences at Waseda University. In 2003, he launched his brand “ANREALAGE.” The name ANREALAGE is derived from A REAL (everyday), UN REAL (extraordinary), and AGE (era).

After presenting in Tokyo for 10 years, he advanced to Paris Fashion Week in 2014. In 2019, he was selected as a finalist for the prestigious LVMH Prize in France and won the 37th Mainichi Fashion Grand Prix in the same year. In 2020, he unveiled a collaboration with FENDI at Milan Fashion Week.

He also designed costumes for Beyoncé’s world tours in both 2023 and 2025.

Official Web Site：https://www.anrealage.com/

Instagram：https://www.instagram.com/anrealage_official/