August, as the back-to-school season, is the peak season for school uniform customization. At the same time, major brands have launched the "Back To School" themed series, with classic college style, casual preppy style, and varsity elite sports becoming popular style directions this month. Maillard retro trend is a popular fashion direction for early autumn. Gorpcore, the outdoor mountain style, remains a popular trend this month and has become an important global industry trend. This month, the Playtime & Kid's Hub New York 24 spring/summer children's wear exhibition explores children's fashion trends. "Daddy Cool 2" concludes this month, focusing on contemporary parenting trends.

As the autumn season approaches, a fashion trend of Maillard-inspired outfits has emerged in the fashion industry. In the 2023 autumn/winter fashion trends, colors that reflect Maillard Reaction are being used, featuring different shades of brown layered together in the same color palette, with warm and bright accents such as orange. This combination resembles the transitional colors of sliced food like steak sandwiches, creating a warm and cozy feeling. POP Trends has also made theme planning, individual item colors, and trend forecasts for the popular styles and colors from 2021 to 2023.

In recent years, the design trend of outdoor sports clothing has shown diversified development. With the changing outdoor sports scenes, people's demand for outdoor sports is also constantly changing. In different scenes from wilderness to suburban areas, outdoor mountain sports patterns have become an important highlight in design. More and more brands are starting to incorporate various outdoor elements into clothing patterns, balancing urban fashion with casual lightweight outdoor clothing that has an outdoor style. This report mainly focuses on wilderness mountains, mountain climbing trips, and fast-paced wilderness outdoor sports themes and combines popular pattern design techniques for analysis and discussion.

Korean-style cartoon patterns have become a major advantage in children's clothing design due to their cute and charming images. Korean cartoons use simple and rounded lines and patterns to capture the cuteness of children, giving people a sense of innocence and vitality. In terms of color, they are skilled at using vibrant high-saturation colors and color block combinations to create a relaxed and minimalist feeling, reflecting the distinct fashion characteristics of Korean trends.

In the pattern design of 23/24 autumn-winter men's fashion, floral patterns have become an extremely important design highlight. They not only bring a romantic and elegant atmosphere to men's clothing but also showcase a gentlemanly and refined taste and style. Exquisite hand-drawn floral clusters, floral geometry, and floral reflection themes are the core content of this report, combining with popular pattern design techniques. This innovative design boldly breaks through the limitations of traditional men's clothing and demonstrates a brave, assertive personality, and a fashionable attitude.

In the 23/24 autumn/winter men's fashion pattern design, camouflage patterns play a key role and have become an important design direction. Camouflage patterns not only showcase the personality and sense of fashion of men, but also combine practicality and functionality in clothing. This report combines the themes of camouflage checkerboard patterns, letter mazes, and texture reconstruction with popular pattern design techniques, presenting floral designs in camouflage style for men's fashion. This innovative design combines camouflage elements with the brand's classic style, bringing a new visual impact to the fashion industry.

In men's pattern design, artistic elements are always present, using textured pattern changes and blurred brush strokes to create an unbounded visual effect and artistic sensation. Symbolic letter elements are also used to enhance the pattern's layering, allowing for more imagination and creating a compelling visual and rhythmic experience. The artistic tone elevates the style of men's pattern design, using blur, abstraction, and diffusion to enhance the artistic quality of the patterns, making them more valuable.

Old Money is an aesthetic based around a wealthy, classic style. Old Money refers to people who have inherited their wealth instead of working for it. Wearing and patterns in the style of Old Money are attracting consumers. Classic houndstooth, unisex tartan and Glen plaid explore the fashion design of Old Money Aesthetic.

Not too much or too less, Lagom sources colors from the ‘balanced variations’ in intelligent living. Minimalist lines and thick hues are fused to pursue the multi-dimensional experiences. We need to slow down in the fast-tempo lifestyle to enjoy the joy in our lives. The anxiety from life and work stimulates our desire for healing. The inspirations from art, culture and senses satisfy the appetite of ‘Equilibrant Enjoyer’. Living a balanced, moderately paced, low-fuss life is what Lagom is all about.

Little Chef brings story-telling illustrations to kidswear design and gives kids an interesting life. The combination with cozy loose fits creates a free and comfortable scene. This kind of patterns is not only suitable for Asian markets, but also give inspirations to western kidswear development.

In the post-pandemic era, people’s lifestyles have been greatly shifted. The perception to the future seeks for a balanced condition and the essence of life. Celebrating the minimalism, we don’t make too much plans about the future, but carry wonderful expectations. Driven by the theme of Lagom, colors and materials take us back to the nature.

Spring Festival is the most important festival in China. With the growing national confidence, designers try more retro chinoiserie graphics on traditional festive wear. Auspicious Chinese characters have become a design language for new year clothing.

Halloween is one of children’s favourite festivals. All the kidswear brands release festive collections to welcome the parties. Cosplay costumes and normal festivewear are the two directions. Designers try 3D hand seams to improve the playfulness.

The definition of outdoorwear has been changed. With the pursuit of technologies and functionality, outdoorwear is not only for extreme conditions but the sustainable living. Mountaineering culture follows the truth of ‘return to the nature’. People escape from the daily routine and go outdoors to rebuild the connection with the world. Inspired by camping, micro vacation and pastoral dream, designers renew the pattern elements such as landscape, ethnic motifs, camous and flowers.

The mindset of Blend Boundary provides a new mode of getting along with the natural laws: pursuing scientific creations as nurturing the nature at the same time. The theme explores the beauty of creation with an experimental spirit. The visual differences and impact of different media blur the boundaries between nature and city. The fabric development of Blend Boundary focuses on texture carving, ottoman stitch and Chanel inspire. Texture carving opts for yarns with different counts to show a relief effect; the 3D ottoman stitches bring visual impact and enriched textures; Chanel-inspired fabrics pair heavy-gauged and medium-gauged stitches with melange yarns to express urban women’s maturity and their extreme pursuit of life.

The key color in Fall/Winter 23/24, Golden Rod, is a dazzling yet not too flamboyant hue. The color of sunset and rusty antiques composes a song for the perishable youth. Golden Rod on lustrous and textured fabrics, such as satin, knit and jacquard, develops suits and sweaters.

Big names as Kenzo and MSGM repeat the brand logo in different colors to form colorful codes. The characters extending toward different directions present a brand-new visual effect. Such patterns are suitable for the all-over printing on knits and puffers. This report focuses on the recommended characters of sweatshirts, fashion suits and puffa jackets. Colorful codes, chic graffiti, twisted characters and 3D characters are the main directions.

Woolen fabrics are fabrics made of wool or wool blended with other fibers. The soft and warm touch plays a dominating role in winter fashion. A/W 23/24 woolen fabrics are tended to have soft tactility, delicate textures and vibrant colors. Based on the unique textures and tactility of woven woolen fabrics, this report focuses on the A/W 23/24 color trends and recommends thick colors and related applications.

In the constant changing of fashion styles, Chanel-inspired suit is always the most elegant and sleek choice. More diversified designs reduce the classic vibe of Chanel suit dress and develop younger and smarter looks. This report will inspire your design development in Fall/Winter 23/24 through the following six silhouettes.

The core of Lagom pursues the balance of life. Living just right in every aspect satisfies contemporary consumers’ requirement for an extraordinary taste. Slow down the living pace and return to the essence of life. Staying close to the nature soothes the restless mind. The pattern expressions and arts drawn from the balanced variation in life interpret the colorful modern aesthetics.

With the popularity of neo chinoiserie, traditional Chinese elements are now loved by fashion designers throughout the world. The fusion of innovation and tradition is the focus. Since the application of pattern can greatly determine the fashion aesthetic, this report sorts out the six most hottest categories for reference.