Founded by Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen in 2006, The Row features minimalist pieces with smart tailoring, and fuses timeless designs with high-quality fabrics. The bright shades of red and blue were added into neutrals and classic black and white in the Spring 2022 menswear collection. Adaptability is one of the themes of The Row. Minimalist unisex styles show fun details and vivid colors to build a casual and free image of wandering poets.

ROKH is a London-based fashion house founded by Rok Hwang in 2016. Workwear was made into evening gown in the S/S 2022 collection. Garments were torn apart and regrouped to create something new. ROKH's constant researches on structures and artisanship discovered the common points between timeless workwear and appealing evening wear. The reproduction of black cocktail gown, drama gloves, and workwear elements is the process to create evening wear. Slim-fit black slip dress and strapless black PVC ball gown continue asymmetric cutting, folding, and deconstructed tailoring to show great impact.

S/S 2022 runways of Fashion Week in Paris, Milan, New York, and London have been finished. Under the steady situation of epidemic, fashion weeks operated the runway in a mixed pattern: a part of brands returned to the offline fashion show, while others continued the digital show, displaying new products through live streaming and videos. And the end of fashion week will definitely lead topics among journalists, celebrities, and buyers. The eye-catching designs revealed the unique mindset of each fashion house, which inspired the trend of next season.

GUCCI announced that in May, 2020 they would only launch two fashion shows each year instead of the traditional fashion week schedule. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of GUCCI, the S/S 2022 runway in the early November, 2021 was held on the Hollywood Boulevard, inviting 12 celebrities as models and displaying over 100 looks. This runway, named Love Parade, was a signature fashion show to reveal the retro charm. Styles, fabrics, and colors were all mixed-and-matched with a free mindset.

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.

YUHAN WANG is a London-based womenswear brand established by Yuhan Wang in 2018, focusing on rebellious aesthetic, fluid spirits, poetic and romantic nostalgia, revealing feminine strength and understated beauty through pieces of uncompromising quality. Designer Yuhan Wang mastered the use of silky floral fabrics, playing with proportions and layering that are currently considered as a signature style. "Beauty with weirdness, softness, delicacy and sensibility" says Wang. S/S 2022 collection, titled Juliette Has a Gun, raised the problems about gender inequality and women's vulnerability. The vaguely Western strand of her theme explained this season's horse prints among Wang's roses and butterflies. The romantic styles of the brand was integrated with darker colors, and conveyed the feminine power through pistol holsters.

Founded in 1933, LACOSTE has been representing for relaxation and elegancy. Being obsessed by sporty symbols and cultural observation, Louise Trotter's active designs create a high-end sports fashion. Her S/S 2022 collection was born of the habit that Louise has been biking to her office throughout 2020 and 2021. These sporty, lively silhouettes from the looks of street bikers reflected complementary people's desire for going out. LACOSTE accentuated the warm tones. Bright Poppy Red, wine red, orange, and Rattan were rather active on the street. Classic rubber tennis skirts and breathable vests all used innovative fabrics, while printed stripes presented liveliness through different colorways. Functional details are paired with sharp color conflicts. Buckled bags and sneakers with elastic ropes inject functionality and practicality into our daily lives.

The designer Pierpaolo Piccioli decided to get Valentino into a new dimension: life. To mark the return of Valentino's ready-to-wear to Paris, he took over the old marketplace at the Carreau du Temple, and a row of neighboring cafés and restaurants opposite, to put on a joyful all-gendered show reunion symbolically blurring the distinctions between insiders and outsiders. The opening look, an organdy flower-embroidered blouse and tiny skirt, referred to Valentino Garavani's all-white collection of 1968—immortalized in a photograph of Marisa Berenson. There was a reproduction of a slim, tiger-striped maxi coat, famously worn by Veruschka the following year—and to end with, a pair of floaty, flower-printed dresses from the '70s. Designer pitched the production towards embracing Gen Zers with a proposition of a beautiful, casualized couture wardrobe designed to float between genders: lightweight taffeta tailoring in vivid colors, plethoras of dresses from minuscule and cutaway to sweeping, embroidered caftans. The mini-maxi proportion play—like billowy volumes teamed with micro-shorts—provided a translated house glamour that captured everything the TikTok generation might relate to.

The latest collection of LOEWE was staged at the equestrian training arena of La Garde Républicaine, a historic location in the centre of Paris. Inspired by The Deposition from the Cross, painted by the Italian Mannerist artist Jacopo Pontormo in Florence 1528, the designer Jonathan Anderson said,"Neurotic, psychedelic, and completely hysterical." of his S/S 2022 collection. He tried to break the rules of LOEWE and explored the concept of draping, sculpture and color by distortion to create a new LOEWE.

Balenciaga S/S 2022 ready-to-wear collection, titled Red Carpet, was released at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. The first part of the show was a photocall on a Hollywood-style red carpet. And guests wearing the new collection pause on the walkway before being ushered into a theater screening the short film The Simpsons I Balenciaga. The Simpsons for Balenciaga is the latest in a progression of activations that push certain boundaries set up between fashion and other forms of entertainment, culture and technology, shifting the brand away from an easily definable category.

CHANEL S/S 2022 Ready-to-Wear collection returned to the Grand Palais. The show without magnificent props put emphasis on the release of clothing. Inspired by the magic of fashion seen through the photographer's lens, the CHANEL Spring-Summer 2022 Ready-to-Wear show evokes the heightened emotions and memories of the raised runways of the 1980s surrounded by photographers and flashbulbs. Romantic with a touch of mystery, the collection balances the graphic purity of black and white, playful summer stripes, and the dark whimsy of a butterfly's wings on black chiffon. Behind the camera lens, model Vivienne Rohner plays the role of both photographer and fashion muse in cinematic black and white, for a first glimpse of the inspirations behind the collection by Virginie Viard.

Louis Vuitton held a grand ball of time in the Louvre. The artistic director Nicolas Ghesquière continued his unique understanding of architecture and couture. The design of architectural silhouettes brought the gorgeous romanticism of the 19th century to the present. Rococo bustle and gorgeous beaded embroidery were the elements in the retro court. The combination with modern elements as mask-like sunglasses, denim and cargo pants provided us with a time journey.

Founded by Miuccia Prada in 1992, MIU MIU released its S/S 2022 collection in Palais d'Iéna. Twisted white runway separated the space and exposed most part of the original architecture. Guests were sitting in ergonomic work chairs and the show treated us to a back-to-work wardrobe for the post-pandemic age. Blue shirt, sweater, khaki trousers and black belt completed the first look of this collection and brought the office atmosphere to the show. These signature office items, such as shirt, polo shirt, jacket, suit, suit dress and pencil skirt, were shown one after another. Based on the basic definition, Miuccia Prada was exploring the relationship between clothing and body. Familiar items lifted the waistline of upper body and lowered the waistline of bottoms to reveal a different body proportion and expose the midriff. Raw-edged cut hemline, white undershirt and faded sweater were casual and rebellious. Besides, the pointed head of loafers injected sharpness into the general looks.

Launched at the Quai de la Tournelle in Paris, S/S 2022 Chloé runway was cooperated with many charities to underline the social responsibility of the brand and the fusion of environmental protection and creativity. This show about love interpreted the free and unlimited Bohemian spirit. Chloé Craft was also officially introduced to launch more hand-made products in the future. This collection applied regenerated wool, hand-cut plant-dyed leather and soft linen. The usage ratio of lower impact material reached 58% this season. Various sewing, weaving and whipstitching techniques have been appeared. Petal-pattern crocheted dress, knotted slip dress made of strips of leftover fabric from seasons before, and whipstitched leather renew and inherit the classics.

Acne Studios S/S 2022 collection centered around sexy and conflicted handicraft with futurism to present subversive creation. The provocative and tough attitude of its controversial designs has been a topic in the fashion industry in S/S 2022. On the runway today, floral-print blouses that fastened with a single bow in the front were paired up with minis bearing straps and buckles that hinted at BDSM or old-fashioned girdles. Corsets got a rework, too, in tooled leather, plaid, or military-grade nylon. And fitted skirts did indeed take their details from girdles, with stretchy side panels and garter snaps. The extravagant tied-up chunky shoes revealed the alternative sexy. This collection also discussed self-identification and instinct, interpreting the experimental concept of Acne Studios.

Inspired by the love for the sea and sun, Giorgio Armani S/S 2022 womenswear presented a blue ocean on the backdrop. Maintaining the classic styles, Giorgio Armani integrated the fantastic colors of sunset with chiffon gown dress to exude tenderness and romance. Besides, many celebrities took photographs with the designer on the runway, which provided more topics for this collection.

Christian Dior S/S 2022 ready-to-wear fashion show was held in the Paris Tuileries Garden on September 28. Maria Grazia Chiuri approached Anna Pararatti to conceive the show's scenography in an absurdist spirit reflecting the universe of her various works. Pop and game have been the core of this 60's runway. The collection is structured around a network of associations as Maria Grazia Chiuri explores Marc Bohan's long tenure as Creative Director of Dior. More precisely, she highlights the Slim Look collection, presented in 1961. A-line doll dress, mini Dior suit, 60s optical white dress and tennis dress; color-blocking outerwear and dress; orange and green boxing suit; golden fringed mini dress all awaken and overpass the elegant classics of Dior.

Founded by Achille Maramotti in 1969, Sportmax is a brand which pursues fashion, freedom and avant-garde. Inspired by the musical works and theories of the post-war American avant-garde figure John Cage, S/S 2022 collection, themed 'the Anatomy of Silence', broke the limit of tradition and conveyed a creative dress attitude by corset, military decorative straps and neat silhouettes.

The creative director Riccardo Tisci integrated imagination into the design to bring the BURBERRY S/S 2022 womenswear collection titled Animal Instinct. The flowing modern dreamland and immersive sensory experiences fused music, clothing with femininity and interpreted new modern stories through diversified forms. Animal elements presented by curvy printing enlivened classic trench coat; voluminous fringes set off the freedom of BURBERRY; shawl-like wide sleeves increased the elegancy and vitality of classic styles.

Broadly speaking, neutral colors are the mixtures of red, yellow and blue in different proportions. However, in a narrow sense, neutrals colors are those colorless colors(black, white, gray) and low-saturation earthy tones. In the S/S 2022 menswear fashion weeks, Almond Buff(PANTONE 14-1116 TPG), Honey Mustard(PANTONE 17-1047 TPG), Clay(PANTONE 15-1231 TPG) and Arabian Spice(PANTONE 19-1245 TPG) were the main neutral colors. We can see the perfect presentation of men's elegant and understated temperament from practical and functional clothing. Clay with high inclusiveness pays attention to the casual and elegant scent; Arabian Spice is used more on leisurely outdoor items.

The famous Italian womenswear brand BLUMARINE was founded by Anna Molinari and Gianpaolo Tarabini in 1977. Inspired by the character Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, BLUMARINE S/S 2022 collection maintained the brand style and presented a retro fashion show once again. The young creative director Nicola Brognano has injected youthful vitality into the brand in just one year in office. The Y2K hottie style and denim ceremonial dress take us back to the millennium. Lively barbie pink and bright yellow are paired with butterflies to create a dreamland for girls.