E-Paper Chic: E Ink Brings Color-Changing Dresses to Paris Fashion Week
Japanese fashion house Anrealage and E Ink unveiled six color-changing dresses built on E Ink Prism 3 technology at Paris Fashion Week on September 29 as part of the Skin Spring/Summer 2027 collection. Each dress carries approximately 1,000 to 2,000 reflective electronic paper elements in overlapping, scale-like patterns; the paper emits no light, reflects ambient light, and draws power mainly when colors or patterns change. Anrealage, founded by Kunihiko Morinaga, previously showed LED-covered garments reported by invidis in March 2025; the new collaboration uses reflective electronic paper instead of illuminated pixels so one garment can take several visual appearances. Naoki Sumita, president of E Ink Japan, is quoted.
Japanese fashion label Anrealage and display maker E Ink took electronic paper down the runway, unveiling six color-changing dresses at Paris Fashion Week on September 29 as part of Anrealage's Skin collection for Spring/Summer 2027. The idea, they say, is an outfit that changes by itself rather than the wearer changing outfits.
The dresses are built on E Ink's Prism 3 technology, with each garment carrying approximately 1,000 to 2,000 individual electronic paper elements arranged in overlapping, scale-like patterns. E Ink describes its electronic paper as a display that emits no light of its own, reflecting ambient light instead and drawing power mainly when the color or pattern changes.
Anrealage, founded by Japanese designer Kunihiko Morinaga, has experimented with display technology in fashion before. In March 2025, invidis reported on the label's LED-covered garments, which transformed clothing into wearable digital displays. The new collaboration flips that approach, replacing illuminated pixels with reflective electronic paper so the clothing shifts its appearance without producing its own light. E Ink says the technology lets designers give a single garment several visual appearances.
"Anrealage has a long history of combining craftsmanship, technology, and imagination in ways that challenge how we see everyday materials," said Naoki Sumita, president of E Ink Japan.