Anrealage

World Fashion Channel http://www.anrealage.com/ PROFILE Designer Kunihiko Morinaga, is a Waseda University and Vantan Design Academy graduate born in Tokyo in 1980. In 2003, he launched ANREALAGE, its name a combination of ''A REAL, UNREAL and AGE.” His designs originate in discoveries of easily-overlooked, subtle twists in the fabric of our everyday life that create touches of unreality. Working with the mantra, "God is in the details," his designs are known for their brightly-colored, finely-detailed patchwork, garments with creative shapes unbeholden to the human body, and garments that actively incorporate technology and innovative techniques. Anrealage won the Design Vision Award For Avant Garde at Gen Art in New York in 2005, and made its first appearance in the Tokyo Collection the same year (2006 S/S). In 2011, Morinaga was awarded the 29th Mainichi Fashion Grand Prix for best new designer and the Shiseido Incentive Award. In 2014, he made his Paris debut with his 2015 S/S collection. He was selected as an ANDAM Fashion Awards finalist in 2015. In 2016, he opened the ANREALAGE AOYAMA store in Minami Aoyama, Tokyo. ANREALAGE Designer Kunihiko Morinaga established ANREALAGE in 2003, branding it with a name that combined “A REAL, UNREAL, and AGE.” Based on the garments produced over the subsequent 15 years, Anrealage’s activities can be broadly categorized into three periods.