Kyocera’s FOREARTH Inkjet Prints Florania FW26 Collection at Milan Fashion Week

Kyocera’s FOREARTH inkjet printer was the production backbone for Florania’s Fall/Winter 2026/2027 runway, which Florania presented in Milan on February 26, 2026. Kyocera says the system “reduces water consumption by up to 99% compared to traditional methods,” a figure the company frames as a direct response to textile industry water pollution and a key reason the prints reached the catwalk without conventional wet processing.

Florania’s founder and designer Flora Rabitti built the FW26 story around a civic intimacy: the collection “was born from the idea that ‘unity is protection,’” Kyocera copy notes, and its core message—“If we are all one, you can’t hurt me”—ran through the silhouettes. The garments that hit Milan were described as lightweight and easy to move in, finished in high-quality satin, stretch tulle, and pleated viscose; the prints served to fuse Florania’s traditions with what the brand calls innovative textile technologies.

Technically, FOREARTH is presented as an all-in-one inkjet platform that fires a proprietary pigment ink, a pretreatment liquid, and a finishing agent in sequence from the same print head. Members Asicentral summarized the architecture: the three components are “constantly discharged in the same sequence from the inkjet head,” which Kyocera says eliminates the pre- and post-process stages required of conventional dye printing. Kyocera’s materials add that the method works across cotton, silk, polyester, nylon and blended fabrics and allows printing on recycled fibres, promising highly detailed reproduction across a wide tonal range.

Kyocera Document Solutions Europe framed the Milan outing as an extension of an existing partnership with Florania; the company’s Schiphol-Rijk dateline on February 9, 2026 announced the extended collaboration and described FOREARTH technology as “redefining the paradigms of ethical fashion through a production process with an extremely low environmental impact.” Business Wire distribution for Kyocera Italia noted that this FW26 presentation was Florania’s first runway listing on the official Milan Fashion Week calendar and that the show drew a large number of media and attendees. Kyocera Italia’s managing director Noriyuki Nakatani appears on the company masthead for these communications.

FOREARTH’s runway credentials were preceded by infrastructure: the FOREARTH Experience Studio opened in Milan in April 2025 as a showroom for live demonstrations, and Kyocera’s global pages reference other fashion partners, including ANREALAGE and HATRA, signaling multiple label trials. Members Asicentral also reported that the printer was expected to be available for presale in fall 2023, a timeline that sits beside the machine’s visible use at Milan Fashion Week in 2025 and 2026.

If nothing else, the combination of Flora Rabitti’s emotionally driven collection language and Kyocera’s technical claims—“It is a ‘water-free’ process that allows Florania’s creative vision to be expressed without compromising the ecosystem”—marks a concrete moment where digital textile printing moves from experiment to runway tool, and where a named designer and a named technology publicly stake a claim to lowering fashion’s water footprint.