Anrealage spring/summer 2027: check tights with pumps in the same print, look by look
In Anrealage's collection about skin that changes like an outfit, Kunihiko Morinaga puts three pairs of check tights with pumps in the same print: hosiery that continues into the shoe.
Kunihiko Morinaga showed Anrealage's spring/summer 2027 collection in Paris, his 25th show in the city, as Alex Wynne notes in WWD. In the gallery WWD published with images courtesy of the brand, we count 33 looks, plus the final image, and in 3 of them the legs are in tights: all check, all with pumps in the same print. Few looks, but the clearest example of the season of hosiery that continues into the shoe. We went through them one by one.
The collection: skin as an outfit
According to WWD, Morinaga considered the body's outer surface and its capacity for mutation, skin as something that can be shed "again and again, like an outfit". The references were animal fur and feathers, the scales of fish and serpents, checks and polka dots, and digital avatars. The show opened with second-skin bodysuits printed with psychedelic scales; then wardrobe archetypes redone in patchworks of fabric petals, washi paper dresses with sequin details and, as always at Anrealage, technology: 3D-printed bustiers that change colour with the viewing angle, and dresses made of up to 2,000 E Ink paper scales that change colour without emitting light. The show coincided with the opening of the Just An Real Age pop-up on Rue de Turenne, with pieces from all 25 Paris collections.
Nothing in WWD mentions hosiery, but the logic is clear: where the skin is printed, so are the legs.
Two checks, two colourways: looks 28 and 29
In look 28 the tights are a black and white checkerboard, opaque, and the pumps carry the same print: from the photo it is hard to say where the tights end and the shoe begins. On top is a blue and white paillette bell mini dress. In look 29 the checks are orange and blue, the tights slightly sheerer, and again the pumps repeat the print, under a mustard paillette bell mini dress.
Looks 28 and 29: the tights run into the shoe. Photo: courtesy of Anrealage, via WWD.
The turquoise check: look 31
In look 31, the photo at the top, the tights are turquoise and green check, with turquoise pumps, under a pale blue and orange scale paillette dress worn over a white shirt. Next to it in the photo below, look 1 opens the show with a printed suit as tight as a second skin: the same scales, here covering the body from neck to ankle.
Looks 31 and 1: the check on the leg and the print on the body. Photo: courtesy of Anrealage, via WWD.
The other looks are bare-legged, or in printed bodysuits and skinny trousers (looks 1 to 6, 26 and 27): we did not count those as hosiery.
How to read these legs now
No source gives the yarn or the denier. Three practical points:
- Tights and shoe in the same print. The simplest way to wear patterned tights without cutting the leg: the print runs to the toe. The same principle, with leopard, was at Telfar.
- A small check under a big volume. All three pairs sit under bell or straight mini dresses: with a short, voluminous dress, a slim printed leg balances the silhouette.
- The colour of the tights picked up by the dress. The turquoise of look 31's tights is the same as the dress's scales: if the tights are coloured, the colour should come back on top. For more prints on the legs, see Antonio Marras's polka dots and Maxhosa Africa's diamonds.
For more of the season, read our Paris Fashion Week report.
The photos
The numbering follows the WWD gallery of Anrealage spring/summer 2027, 34 images credited as courtesy of the brand (33 looks plus the final image). The photos in this article are from that gallery, with credit, and the look numbers are the gallery's. The count of 3 is ours, from the photos.
