The current season's New York & Barcelona Bridal Week featured over 30 domestic and international designers showcasing their 2024 new collections at the fashion shows, attracting exhibitors and buyers from up to 90 countries. As a major trend, many brands have started adopting separates bridal gowns, choosing sparkling and iridescent fabrics, paired with embroidery, beading, and three-dimensional decorative elements, to create more handmade and personalized bridal collections. Many collections draw inspiration from nature, with floral patterns being predominant.

Bright and vibrant colors such as pink, orange, light blue, and lavender were key trends in the 2023 Spring/Summer haute couture fashion week for women's clothing, emphasizing a sense of fashion and confidence. Modern elements such as cut-out designs, artful tailoring, and intricate details conveyed a feeling of innovation and style. Drawing on years of experience, designers transformed the base skirts into various layered or non-layered shapes, ranging from loose to fitted, perfectly showcasing the curves of modern women.

All the fashion houses display their featured wedding dresses at Bridal Fashion Week 2023, from the minimalist tailoring of satin to the Art Deco style of floral embroidery and jacquard texture. Romance and nature will always be the theme for wedding dress design. To meet the requirements of modern independent women, designers are trying to make wedding dresses into ready-to-wear wardrobes.

Christian Dior’s A/W 22/23 ready-to-wear collection was released in a gallery with walls of historical portraits. A wired woman with her bodysuit outlined in fluorescent green started the show and brought out the theme – ‘The Next Era’. The creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri tried to express the complexity of fashion, review the tradition, and interpret the signature architectural silhouettes from an innovative perspective, nodding to the feminine power. Besides, Dior cooperated with D-AIR Lab to combine practical crafts with high technologies to create futuristic pieces and redefine creativity and functionalism. Classic Bar Jacket was joined by temperature-controlling system to launch a conversation between classics and technologies.

S/S 2022 runway has become a noteworthy direction for designers. This report centers craft details and accessories to extract the gown dresses from runways and inspire the design in the next season. Voluminous sleeves, details and silhouettes of dress, and feather decorations create an airy touch; jacquard, embroidery, and textured fabrics improve the quality of minimalist styles; cutouts and proper bare-skin design provide sexy elements; besides, handmade accessories like gemstones and beads are also eye-catching.

As a noteworthy event for designers, S/S 2022 runway started a color boom. These flamboyant and bold colors interpreted liveliness and tension. Colorless colors revealed a distinct downtrend comparing with S/S 2021. This report mainly focuses on the analysis of chromatic colors. According to the data, warm tones have increased clearly year-on-year, while cool ones trend downward; reds and greens take precedence, when blues and purples step back.

Valentino merges its S/S 2021 menswear and womenswear show in a strongly industrial space which is surrounded by plants and flowers, quite romantic. This season Pierpaolo Piccioli wants to convey that the distinct values are the essence of supporting and shaping the brand image, just like industrial architectures, while the aesthetic is only the medium that penetrates everything, just like the flowers and plants that decorate the interior. This time VALENTINO applies intense colors to display its symbolic roses on the invitation. With a core of romanticism, the streamlined or the simple style, chiffon shirts, jeans with five pockets, loose blazers, and the ethereal evening dress all reflect advanced and exquisite cutting in details. Retro prints inject vitality and romance. This series feel warm and cold, romantic and realistic.

2020 is hard for the fashion industry. This COVID-19 pandemic disrupts the original plan of many brands. The A/W 2020 Haute Couture fashion week is held via videos. Without stars and fashion bloggers to heat the fashion week, many brands conceptualize a new presentation mode and display their eye-catching works with their creativity. Luckily, with the help of digital technology, they can present their designs online. Lets' see what the online fashion week is like.

In A/W 20/21, as the party season comes, gowns will stand out. Voluminous or minimalist or tight straight gowns and neat suits create a sophisticated and sexy vibe. Dark tones are dominant. Black returns back and becomes the key color of a wide range of gowns. Gemstone colors and warm metallic tones become emphasized decorative colors. Nostalgic keynote and luxurious romanticism is an important theme. Soft ruffles and draping lines highlight a fantasy style. Textural details emphasize prevalent femininity. New Victorian style gains more attention, and works with lace, stacked gauze and velvet to create more gowns.