How Beyoncé’s Anrealage LED Dress for ‘Cowboy Carter Tour’ Was Created: 35,000 Lights, Japanese Architecture Inspiration and Extensive Rehearsals

Beyoncé debuted her “Cowboy Carter Tour” on Monday in Los Angeles, lighting up the stage with an LED dress created by Kunihiko Morinaga, the designer behind the Japanese brand Anrealage. The dress, worn during her performance of “Daughter,” features approximately 35,000 full-color LEDs that transform continuously to match the song’s progression. Morinaga, who had previously collaborated with Beyoncé during the singer’s “Renaissance” era, was invited to create the one-of-a-kind dress after presenting Anrealage’s fall 2025 collection during Paris Fashion Week in March. The collection featured a similar high-tech dress that inspired Beyoncé’s styling team, led by Shiona Turini. “After accepting the offer, I, along with my team, traveled back and forth between Japan and Los Angeles to design and produce an original outfit. The result was a crinoline dress made with our signature ‘Led Textile,’ a flexible fabric capable of displaying shifting colors, patterns and graphics like a liquid crystal screen,” Morinaga told WWD via email. Anrealage Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection The designer collaborated with Mplusplus, a Japanese design firm led by Minoru Fujimoto that integrates LEDs into textiles. Mplusplus was responsible for developing a wireless control system to program the lights’ choreography. “To ensure visibility in a stadium setting, we enlarged

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