Artists discover and refine the highlights in the daily life to create artworks through illustration, graffiti, sculpture and installation. This report will introduce those new-emerging artists and artworks which are suitable for kidswear patterns, and present how those elements and colors in the artworks be used on kidswear.

With the rising requirements of minimalist and protective styling, the protective innovative chemical fiber fabrics have become the mainstream. A/W 2022/23 chemical fiber fabrics pay attention to both comfort and versatility. The environmental elements take the design process to the less-is-more concept. Developing high-quality core fabrics of essential items is important for those value-oriented consumers. Versatile colors, practical functional fibers and materials are applied to strengthen the difference and newness and improve the durability and value. Therefore, synthetic protective fabric, environmental practical leather and metallic lustre fabric form the New Normality closet with practical silhouettes.

Skateboarding and street graffiti present the charm of street culture through the fearless extreme youth attitude, and become the self-manifesto of swanky teenagers in the new era. This report lays the focus on the skateboard lovers and also presents the random hand-drawn graffiti. The combination of the most popular dinosaur elements and skateboards becomes the favourite theme pattern among children and maintains the retro charm.

The craft design of patterns is always be the core element of menswear. And with the normality of young and individualized menswear consumption markets, pattern craft design has also been reformed and blended. Especially, the expression of character pattern is richer. The combined print and embroidery craft is applied in more ways. Delicate rhinestone still occupies its market share of menswear character pattern. The presentation of 3D font art is underlined and richer. Notably, the chenille embroidery comes back to our sight and becomes one of the popular crafts this season.

The down jacket has transferred from a slightly conservative thermal option into a stylish item for young consumers. Designers apply various craft details and popular elements to make the basic and simple down jacket distinctive and broaden the selection range. This report will analysis the application and operation of the detail craft through functional drawstring, knot decoration, floral quilting, embossed hot pressing, raving edge and hand made flowers.

This "hybrid age" connects people with mixed identities, different backgrounds, status and cultures. The young generation look at the world through their immature ethereal dream, and meet another unique themselves. Although they are strangers, they have connected spirits. Isolated from the public aesthetics, they are making selections between sub-culture and mainstream. Their anxiety of "mixed identity recognition" and expectation of being approved by the mainstream cause the experiences including anxiety and hope, pain and joy. The theme Strange Twinning applies handcrafted decorations and reuses wasted synthetic materials to underline the "sweet, beautiful and quirky" style through mix&match. Thus, this report takes sweet stretchy lace fabric, colorful handmade blend fabric, girly sheeny chemical fiber fabric and ethereal sheer fabric as the main point, inversely influencing the mainstream by their interpersonal cultures through content socialization and private domain customization.

In this complicated and severe social background, people are searching for otherworldly areas in their hearts. The Wilderness volume of magazine Another Escape perfectly satisfies people's contemporary mood. Longing natural colors, fantasy and urban lives form new worlds. These three distinct worlds reflect various kaleidoscope images and provide psychological comfort through natural baptism. The bright and lively colors in Fresh Flowers and Trees encourage people to pursue off-season dressing in a relaxing and joyful emotion. Pink Rock Mountain takes low-saturation natural pink and pale khaki as the key note to appease people's emotion. The Wizard of Oz provides a green world to let people enjoy the natural baptism.

Heart elements are used widely in the pattern designs of S/S 2022. Single heart-shape, psychedelic heart-shape, weird heart-shape, mixed heart-shape, dark heart-shape, artistic 3D heart-shape and some heart-shaped art paintings. The multiple techniques enrich the pattern design and make it more convenient for designers to apply on collection.

People are searching for a peaceful land, and island is a place isolated from the continent and is a peaceful normality in the journey. Influenced by the revive natural living, abstract seaside scenery and casual hand-draw bionic patterns create a gentle vacation style. Self-sufficient islanders perfectly fit the natural plant patterns and create the delicate and plain beach style, increasing the original tonality of the whole theme.

We will find ourselves in front of the new generation committed to environmental protection. Environmental protection is not only limited to the natural environment, but also the human social environment. Future belongs to the kids. And these kids will be particularly sensitive to society and nature. They publicly demand equality in terms of gender, race and human rights. The thought and expression of equality is their key to create a better world based on respect. This theme will present a harmonious and equal gender-free style through high-saturation Camellia, neutral Banana and vital Lichen.

Sheep is an indispensable domestic animal for human survival and development. It also exists in a variety of traditional cultures and religions. Sheep elements are also deeply loved by people in the use of kidswear patterns. All-over simple Scandi style sheep pattern is suitable the most on infants' loungewear. And sheep character is also popular among picture books and cartoons. Designers use soft and lightweight cloud-like sheep to provide warmth to the winter days.

With contemporary consumers' rising beauty-appreciation of individuality and fashion, the craft details are also developing and updating, and the requirement of design sense is also getting higher. The concave-convex texture craft design is often used on clothing fabrics, such as shearing, slitting, quilting, applique and relief. It enriches the visual effect and satisfies the detail requirements, also provides more collocations.

Texture, tactility, comfort and fashion are the key points of sportswear this new season. Based on the comfortable feeling, lightweight texture and fashionable style is the essential developing point of blazers. Preppy and functional style outerwear has great changes in this season, mainly on functional pockets, bold shirring and heterogeneous splicing. Enlarged hem silhouette is applied on classic sports cardigan. And the application of asymmetric placket presents chic. The selection, surface and position of new patterns are also the considerable points.

With the development of Feminism, shoulder lines have attracted more attention among female consumers. The broad shoulders are updating, and A/W 22/23 designers combine eye-catching visual effects with practical placement silhouette to build brand new shoulder lines. This report will analysis the evolution of over-shoulder lapel, double-cloak shoulder, arc shoulder and stiff shoulder from A/W 21/22 to A/W 22/23.

Pattern craft is always one of the most important elements for clothes design. Since fashionable leisure styles are pursuing more chic pattern crafts, the pattern crafts have been enriched and combined. Thus, the combined pattern crafts which improve the classic craft start getting in our vision. The overlapped pattern crafts make portrait patterns have more tension and layers. And different combinations can also enrich the color possibilities. The advanced beads and diamond and unconventional tassel design are the key points this season.

The key developing point of jackets this season is classic revolution and maintained practicality. There have been bigger changes on the collar of classic preppy style baseball jacket. Large volume and placement deconstructed details are applied on classic pilot jacket to show chic. Practical multi-pocket jacket, windproof hooded loose jacket and narrow-collar loose jacket which tightens hem and cuffs are still under development this season. The placement details pursue high quality and practicality, and the whole presents practical leisure style.

The fashionable and thermal polar fleece will keep influencing the whole fashion industry. It can present diversified styles through different items and provide stylish dressing collocations to the young male consumers. The following collocations are depending on different scenes, and each one has a high utilization rate.

Sustainable design is the new ecological concept of S/S 2022 denim industry. Eco-friendly and comfortable denim fabrics prefer environmental protection materials to satisfy consumers' expectation of sustainable fashion. Eco-friendly fiber denim, degradable synthetic fiber denim and anti-bacterial denim provide consumers with more more practical and functional denim styles with outstanding dressing experience, which have attracted the eyesight of those consumers who pay attention to environment protection and sustainable fashion.

Outerwear and trousers are the most popular items of denim, especially jeans. Therefore, the design craft of trousers is extremely important. The following craft elements are summarized depending on beauty and creativity. Distressed&chains, lacing&hollow-out, positioning hollow-out&handcraft, zipper&distressed and distressed napping&decorative stitch are deeply loved by the public and fashionista.

Since sustainable eco-friendly design is still attractive, many designers recreate and reuse the past in-stock fabrics. The splicing of contrastive color patches or textures in placement underlines the rhythm of clothes. Functional elements can be added into the splicing details, and the combination of feminine silhouettes and athletic feeling creates feminine sportswear through innovative details.

In the fashion trend of young lady style, the craft details on item design become more important. Especially those elegant people who are chasing for life quality pay more attention to the daily details. Details like stringy selvedge decoration, lace, petal edge and babydoll collar perfectly satisfy this requirement.