Morinaga is behind the Anrealage brand, “which recognises fashion as a tool to change everyday life”. He designed the stage costume for Beyoncé’s 2023 world tour.

Kyocera's eco-friendly and water-saving ForEarth printer was announced last year.

It is Kyocera’s first device for direct-to-fabric printing.

Explaining the concept behind his design, Morinaga said: “In this show, I tried to express the concept of ForEarth to reduce water usage in the form of clothes, and I showed a dress like a drop of water.

“Clothes are usually made to fit the human body, but I thought of the perfect sphere as the human body and made a frilly dress to wrap around the sphere. The dress itself looks like a drop of water when the sphere is wearing the dress, but when you peel it off the sphere, it turns into a dress that people wear.”

He said he was impressed at the results from the device.

“In all my years of making clothes, I thought it was natural to use a lot of water for prints, and I thought that using water would keep the colours, vibrant expression, and texture of the fabric. However, I was very impressed that the fabric printed with ForEarth achieves the vibrant and high-definition expression even though it uses very little water, and that the texture of the textile itself is not spoiled at all and the softness of the fabric was maintained.”