Elie Saab 23/24 F/W Couture Collection is inspired by the image of medieval queens, taking inspiration from queen characters in the film industry such as Kate Blanchett in "Elizabeth" and Sophie Marceau in "Braveheart". It is a way to bring women's imagination into the realm of fantasy. Gothic architecture appears on structured gowns, using jewel tones as a tribute to nobility. The capes, trains, and exposed shoulders and necklines of medieval monasteries are recreated through pastel-colored styles and embroidered patterns, reflecting the allure of the court. Accompanied by the launch of men's haute couture, the creative and luxurious experience is maintained.

During the new season Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week, 32 brands released their latest haute couture collections. Schiaparelli remained the opening brand, presenting the audience with a visually stunning feast of ultra-sensory aesthetics, while the finale show was by French fashion designer Adeline André. Additionally, Thom Browne made his debut in Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week, showcasing an extravagant and bizarre haute couture premiere. Of course, there were also the whimsically deconstructed Viktor&Rolf and Giambattista Valli, who is loved by female celebrities on the red carpet.

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.

The concept of haute couture evolves with the times and does not truly belong to any specific era. The Giambattista Valli 2023 Autumn/Winter haute couture collection for this season takes place in a monochromatic room filled with rose petals, embarking on a romantic and sweet dreamy journey to celebrate "classic modernity." Layered sheers, ethereal feather fringes, exquisite beaded lace, and luxurious satin skirts infuse modernity into classicism. Returning to the essence of craftsmanship, mastering complex techniques to achieve new weightless volumes or surpassing the boundaries of structure allows each garment to express its own personality and uniqueness.

It’s Paris Couture Week, and as expected, the highly-lauded occasion commenced with Daniel Roseberry presenting his latest surreal statement for the House of Schiaparelli. Roseberry debuted 30 looks each centered around themes of true art. International Klein Blue, first mixed by the French artist Yves Klein, came within a collection featuring painted models and allusions to Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures, standing tall and ethereal. Black diamond embellishments formed trompe-l’œil sculptures of Venetian statues on a cream coat, with its darts, pleats, and collar all echoing the gravitas of a marble figure.

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.

The bride wear industry in China focuses on the romantic, sweet fashion styles in Japan and South Korean. This report will introduce the main silhouettes, crafts, details and styles. Innovative, practical design elements are combined with the current fashion trend to inspire the design development.

RollingKids also added the S/S 2023 Kids’ Shanghai Fashion Week. RollingKids is an experiential kids’ fashion collection that shares wonderful things with the world. Based on the principle of being safe, comfortable and fashionable, RollingKids selects the excellent kidswear designer brands from allover the world, and provides refined products to kids between 0 to 14-year-old. Stella McCartney, Tia Cibani, Raspberry Plum, Wolf&Rita and Tutu Du Monde are the exhibitors.

Paris Couture Fashion Week 2022 launched a battle between being conservative and radical. We can see Balenciaga’s hi-tech diving suits, Iris Van Herpen’s pioneering pieces, Chanel and Giorgio Armani Prive’s nod to the pas, and of course, the ethereal and gorgeous pieces of Elie Saab.

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.

Paris Haute Couture Week returned to the physical runway in a high profile. From Elie Saab’s Eden florals to Charles de Vilmorin’s colorfulness, designers focused on the tailoring to accent the body outlines and displayed multiple moods. Challenging creations elevated the beauty and realized the goal of haute couture.

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.

This report mainly puts emphasis on the patterns of womenswear runways, and compares the proportion of each mainstream element and style in S/S 2022 and S/S 2021. Plant pattern remains the dominating position on S/S 2022 womenswear runways; folk patterns, European-style patterns, and human figures trend upward, while animal stripes and linear patterns present a decreasing trend. Notably, the wallpaper-style floral pattern is also appeared frequently on the latest runways.

Founded in 2000, JUNONA focuses on the equality of gender and provides elegant daywear for all the women and kids. Being sporty, elegant and stylish, the diversified and rich collections of JUNONA create its modern and dynamic image. Let's accept the challenges of daily life with smile and accentuate the individuality with joy.

Dior A/W 21/22 Couture Collection was released on July 5 in Paris, which was presented by the creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri and French artist Eva Jospin. The work Chambre de Soie, created by French artist Eva Jospin, provides a backdrop for the show, with lifesize embroideries displayed on the walls recalling the Indian-inspired Salle aux Broderies in the Colonna Palace in Rome. Forest, vine, rock and waterfall create imaginative and twisted scenes. The combination of lively embroidery and haute couture gown is shown on this amazing runway. The materiality of fabric becomes form, while the subversive language of embroidery is expressed in a project that becomes a performance. An energy resembling poetic pleasure, at the intersection of style, movement and attitude. Through textile research, a series of pieces, featuring an assortment of checks, tweeds, textures and different dimensions in black and white. This creation serves as a precious décor for presenting dresses with magnificent pleats, trains, and hand-woven chains that compose patterns on the body, in colors dear to Monsieur Dior, such as powder blue or nude. The singular context reinterprets the meaning of embroidery, and salutes to the exquisite craftsmanship and couture spirit of Dior.

A/W 21/22 Christian Dior womenswear collection was released in the Hall of Mirrors at Versaille, Paris. The creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri chooses a territory where the time-space dimension is erased. Inspired by the The Bloody Chamber collection, published in 1979 by Gollancz, director explores the fairy tales and interprets the confident and fearless contemporary women image through her extraordinary perspective. Chiuri lined the hall with artworks by the Italian artist Silvia Giambrone, creating a fantastic fairy tale in the legendary Hall of Mirrors. The tale is hardly just a means of escape: it serves to challenge and revisit stereotypes and archetypes. It consists of a narrative projected into the future. The toy soldier's uniform, shimmering lamé and Lurex jacquards and evening gowns are fit for princesses. A new self-awareness, born of a feminine sensibility that knows how to blend memories of the past and maturity, as if by magic.

The Georgian designer David Koma was graduated from Central Saint Martins and established his homonymic brand in 2009. A/W 21/22 collection is inspired by the space era, and it reinterprets the deconstructed futuristic style. The iconic crystal, chain and cutout appear throughout this collection. The cool and sexy black&white A/W collection uses blue and green to present the powerful sexual appeal.

S/S 2021 kidswear catwalks attract many international kidswear brands (BOY LONDON JUNIOR, GAP and The Children's Place), Chinese kidswear brands (Balabala, gxg.kids, MQD and COCOTREE), Chinese independent designer brands MINGCHENGZI and Little Naive, Chinese high-end gown brands PureShare and FLOWER NINE.

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.