The Flesh Dress, After the Dead Wife's Skin Became a Dress

The Flesh Dress is a 2026 French stop-motion animated short directed by Joachim Hérissé. It follows an aging tailor whose use of a mysterious dress made from his late wife turns renewed success and yo

《The Flesh Dress》 is a 2026 French stop-motion animated short film directed by Joachim Hérissé. Running approximately 15 minutes, the film centers on Jean, an aging tailor clinging to the fashions of the past. He continues making old-fashioned dresses for his wife, Jeanne, and after her death, he cannot let go of her memory.

One night, Jean puts Jeanne in a wedding dress he made early in his career. The next day, he encounters his wife returned in the form of a young bride, but she is already dead. After discovering that his wife's skin has fused with the dress fabric, Jean cuts up the dress and uses it as material for new costume designs.

The new dresses win the approval of customers, and success returns to Jean's once-stagnant workshop. Jeanne's appearance as a young bride dying night after night repeats, while Jean himself undergoes a transformation that makes him younger. But the film drives its eerie puppet animation toward the process by which the choice to turn loss into a commodity leads not to a recovery of success, but to an irreversible price.

The original title is 《La Robe Peau》, and it was produced with French dialogue. Komawé handled production, Miyu Distribution handled distribution, and the cast includes Frank Trillot, Laurence Huby, and Aliénor Schreder.