Innovative vegan and more sustainable materials, luminous dresses and headpieces, laser cutting and 3D printing, video game inspiration and LAN party vibes—plus a bonus trip to the moon… let’s dive into the Fall-Winter 25–26 season through the lens of fashion tech
By Ludmilla Intravaia
WOMENSWEAR (March 3 - 11, 2025)
* Anrealage (March 4, 2025)
On the catwalk, stunning luminous silhouettes with colorful LEDs followed one another, in powerful contrast with the angular character of garments inspired by the gaming universe of Roblox and robotic-style 3D-printed shoes. More info in this Boudoir Numérique article.
* Undercover (March 4, 2025)
For the finale of his show, Japanese designer Jun Takahashi chose to adorn his silhouettes with glowing headpieces that stood out in the dark, creating a poetic and mesmerizing ballet.
Watch the full show below :
* Maitrepierre (March 4, 2025)
In his FW 25-26 collection Future Memory, French designer Alphonse Maitrepierre explores the connections between past and future, notably using laser-cutting techniques to create garments with a worn, damaged look — as if you had just found them in your grandmother’s attic (more info in this Boudoir Numérique article).
* Stella McCartney (March 5, 2025)
With her Laptop to Lapdance collection, Stella McCartney invites us into the offices of Stella Corp, a fictional company—but one with a very real and crucial mission, as it embodies the designer’s own: to end the reign of leather and exotic skins by replacing them with innovative, vegan, and more sustainable alternatives. While references to traditional animal leather remain visible in this Fall-Winter 25–26 season, they appear only through mycelium-based bags (such as Coronet’s Yatai M) or pixelated python prints—totally cruelty-free and animal-free.
Elsewhere, mini dresses revealed, for the first time, Sequinova sequins made from plant-based materials. “Sequinova is a world-first innovation,” the brand proudly shared on its Instagram two day after the show, celebrating the use of “non-toxic, bio-based sequins derived from wood and renewable feedstock—pioneering a sustainable alternative to petroleum-based plastics”.
Notably, American singer Beyoncé—who clearly has a soft spot for fashion tech (see here)—wore a bodysuit inspired by Stella McCartney’s Laptop to Lapdance collection for her robotic-arm dance during the Cowboy Carter tour, which just wrapped up on July 26.
Watch the full show below :
* Noir Kei Ninomiya (March 8, 2025)
The FW 25–26 show opened with uncanny silhouettes adorned with resin sculptures whose fluorescence was revealed under black light. For Kei Ninomiya, resin offers a way “to achieve expressions impossible with just fabrics”. A bold gamble that pays off for the Japanese designer, who, following his mesmerizing sea creatures, draws the viewer into a one-of-a-kind aquatic world.
Also worth noting is the remarkable work on volume, for instance with massive wig-shaped headpieces created using 3D printing.
Watch the full show below :
* Coperni (March 9, 2025)
From the spray-on dress applied directly to a model’s body to the Boston Dynamics robots invited onto the catwalk (see here), the French brand Coperni has mastered the art of fashion tech buzz. The Fall-Winter 25–26 collection by Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant is no exception, drawing inspiration from video games and their iconic heroines, from Lara Croft in Tomb Raider to Alice in Resident Evil.
The legendary thigh holsters of these badass fighters are reimagined as studded legwear and popper-closure cases on hosiery, while sailor collars pay tribute to Sailor Moon, the most exquisite of Japan’s magical girls.
As a kawaii accessory, Coperni introduces a Tamagotchi version of its iconic Swipe bag, miniaturized for the occasion in Bandai’s digital pet born in 1996 (and since deceased countless times from lack of care by its owners).
A pair of limited-edition Ray-Ban Meta x Coperni smart glasses competing for the prize of the ultimate wearable and a show setting as a LAN (local area network) party, with 200 players immersed in gameplay alongside the audience—complete this fashion homage to gaming culture.
On Instagram, Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant teased the show in February, describing it as an “immersive experience”, “in a celebration of the defining social event of 90s internet subculture and the community it brought together (…) to transport people back to a time long-forgotten in today’s hyper-connected digital world: the hey-day of multiplayer computer gaming and the LAN parties at which they were played.”
As the press release concludes: “Impromptu and unruly, in sweaty basements and cramped halls, these iconic gatherings embodied a golden era when computers were synonymous with freedom and optimism, and when the internet was a realm built by humans.”
Watch the full show below :
* Pierre Cardin (March 10, 2025)
At the helm of Pierre Cardin's style studio, Rodrigo Basilicati-Cardin, who designed the training outfits for European Space Agency (ESA) astronauts in 2024, designed to simulate lunar exploration in 2028, returns to his signature theme, with the FW25 collection inspired by "an imagined life on the moon," according to the brand's Instagram post on March 12.
"In twenty years, stations will be installed on the Moon," Rodrigo Basilicati-Cardin explained to Agence France Presse after the show, adding: "We're offering a wardrobe for the scientists who will be there."
Watch the full show below :
In 2020, Boudoir Numérique focused on Space Age fashion in the Harper's Bazaar exhibition, at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Find here, in our report, the highlights of this event which gave pride of place to the precursors of fashion tech, Pierre Cardin but also André and Coqueline Courrèges (the founders of the Courrèges house) or Paco Rabanne, all these couturiers who made technological fashion, before their time.
The Harper's Bazaar exhibition, at Musée des Arts Décoratifs, in Paris, until January 3, 2021 (© Le Boudoir Numérique)
* Continue reading with these following Boudoir Numérique articles :
-Anrealage’s second-skin screens: a fashion-tech dream magnified by Beyoncé
-Paris Fashion Week FW 25-26 – Maitrepierre’s Retro-Tech Fascination
-Drag queen Perla pays tribute to a graceful fashion tech moment
-Stella McCartney: "It’s About Fucking Time that fashion stopped harming animals"
-Paris 24 Olympics - Clara Daguin designs the luminous embroidery on Juliette Armanet's costume
-Balenciaga's Triple S sneaker is adorned with next-gen material Bananatex
-Billie Eilish presents the new innovative vegan bag in Demetra by Gucci
-Boss, the robot Sophia and Tommy Cash pay homage to fashion tech
-Glam tech recap of Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall-Winter 23/24
-Paris Fashion Week FW 23/24 –Stella McCartney’s innovative vegan materials