Classic Chanel style is time-tested, exquisite and noble. Chanel is the first to bring tweed into women's fashion. Its tweed set is simple yet elegant. Virginie Viard has been creative director at Chanel for nearly a year since the decease of Karl Lagerfeld. In the one year, Virginie Viard brings more changes to the classic tweed jacket. On catwalks of Chanel A/W 2021, Virginie Viard rejuvenates the symbolic jacket with her unique cutting. The wave-like neckline and plackets reveal female romance and softness and depict a new image of Chanel girls.

The challenge of health and economy changes the lifestyle and consumption way of consumers. A series of new values will influence designs. Accessories and details will be key to renew unsalable deadstock and renew salable core items. Antimicrobial metals, recycled materials, retro handicrafts and luxurious gemstones tap into consumers' demand for multifunctional products. Versatile durable property and additional value should be key design factors. Handicrafts, sustainability and multifunctional products will be more important, and versatile design will renew A/W 21/22 clothing details and accessories.

Based on latest data of overcoats, the mid-length silhouette in retro colors is the most popular. Combining with new shapes of A/W 21/22 overcoats, collar and details of shirts will be key points, with retro hues for a causal vibe. And overcoats display more detail changes in clothing collocation. The key to a popular shape is creating various looks.

According to the market recovery situation in 2020 and the status quo of textiles, we can see accessories and decoration characterize overcoats, and fringes will prevail. Casual minimalist decorations cater to the public's advocacy of a natural and minimalist lifestyle. Therefore, simple but flexible decorations will become the most important details for overcoats.

As consumer groups pursue the improvement of life quality, the delicate and elegant tweed has been further expanded. The most representative Chanel tweed is leisure-luxe and elegant. In the new season, tweed uses light fine yarns, and delivers a noble temperament through mixing colors or intertwining yarns. Soft multicolored yarns are integrated, or blended with metallic yarns to be more luxurious. In the new season light and thin tweed expands the age group.

Social unrest drives the change of consumers' habits and hobbies, while necessity consumption contributes to the continuous popularity of simple and durable products. Currently, the laissez-faire of liberalism is replaced by the refined restraint, which leads to the change of design direction under this theme. Influenced by this pandemic, "less is more" has been a must, and modular durable design will attract restrained consumers. The home will become a self-healing haven for existentialists, and bring a positive, optimistic, time-rich lifestyle. 60% of the world's population will stay at home from January and April 2020. Under stay-at-home economy, consumption and aesthetics will grow a lot, and artists balance the secure emotion with the beauty of simplicity and purity. The concept of trans-seasonal consumption of simple necessities has become a basic appeal, which is conducive to creating a lasting and considerate brand.

The overcoat is an necessary item for men, and the focus of menswear brands in early spring. In Resort 2021, the fashion leisure overcoat is the key point of big brands. Light retro elements stand out this season. Classic overcoat silhouette is kept, and loose silhouette is popular. Catering to the young market, this season fashion leisure overcoats will highlight young designs and become the featured item of early spring.

The design craze of the classic retro style activates the vitality of retro products. The atmosphere full of insecurity and fear makes people look forward to beautiful and hopeful things. Under this background, luxurious retro court style is awakened, so people can face the terrible circumstance with a positive and optimistic attitude. This trend is also combined with unsalable products, catering to sustainable design concept. The unique appearance contains the charm of vintage, and the nostalgic keynote enhances the value and significance of products.

Currently vintage is everywhere, fashionistas also add many antique clothing and accessories to their wardrobes. Thus many private libraries gain much attention. Leighton House Museum, a private noble old house in central London, houses Victorian antiques and Raphael paintings. The Islamic style hall and retro elements depict a striking picture and inspire designers.

Dunhuang is a unique art treasure in the world, with profound historical and cultural deposit. After the Palace Museum becomes an online celebrity, Dunhuang, the ancient city with more than a thousand years of history, has also become a new IP of traditional culture popular among young people.

The instability of our living environment makes utilitarianism particularly important in clothing, which also drives the popularity of multiple pockets. In A/W 21/22, this kind of design continues the 3D pockets and patch pockets, and also pays attention to detail and appearance change. There are decorative edges, processing lines, hidden pockets, exposed 3D pockets, flap pockets and 3D pockets in multiple shapes. A detachable pocket is also added to the belt, becoming a punchline. Pockets are both practical and good-looking.

The sudden outbreak affects the whole world, and people begin to look back on their comfortable life emotionally, hoping for a psychological cure and a memory of a happy time. At the same time, due to the stagnation of trade during the pandemic, many products and fabrics are overstocked. Thus surplus production materials are redesigned and new elements are injected into old goods. These become an effective way to solve the stock. COVID-19 has spread around the world, raising people's fear of terrorist attacks and natural disasters. And protective functional designs bring a safety sense for anxious people.

Orange Rust is a full earth tone, quite neutral. For girls' casual overcoats, the wool and fur can well show the inclusiveness of Orange Rust. It can be used as a core color or a fashionable color, bringing warmth and novelty for A/W 21/22.

The unusual 2020 leads to people's longing for an easy and comfortable life. In addition to comfortable loungewear, people also prefer comfortable overcoats. Overcoats in this report combine the comfortable silhouette with daily life, showing a comfortable and casual lifestyle.

Extraterrestrial Horizon is one of A/W 20/21 theme color trends released by POP in July 2019. It continues the journey to probe into the unknown world from a multi-dimensional perspective. In the vast universe, humans are not alone. In 2020, 51 years after the first moon landing, human exploration of the universe has never ceased, and digital technology inspires design concepts of the remote space. Space exploration becomes a hot topic again. This new season, futurism mixes with outdoor tech to explore extraterrestrial vision in a fresh angle. Futuristic design presents a mixed palette, featuring a sports and futuristic style. Digital technology inspires design concepts from distant time and space. Colors take reference of outer planets, meteorites and interstellar light beams. Apple Green, Canary Green, Hazelnut, Vista Blue become base tones, combining with dark colors such as Andorra, French Roast and Dress Blues to keep balance, interpreting an interstellar journey where futurism meets with technology.

The Exquisite Life -- The Color Trend for A/W 21/22 Women's Overcoats

Minimalism, also known as Minimal Art, emerged in the 1960s after the Second World War. Minimalism itself, leaves some space for the public to create and experience the concept of art, and allows the audience to participate in the construction of the work, and finally becomes a mental behavior without specific restrictions. The minimalist design adheres to the design concept that less is more, which is reflected by details of overcoats. In A/W 21/22, the minimalism uses the contrasting combination of buttons with plackets, changes of dart, and simple pocket changes to interpret the multifunctional details of overcoats.

In A/W 20/21, men's sports items feature the minimalism and functional details. The extreme simplicity displays the "less is more" wearing experience. Due to the rapid deterioration of the climate and environment, items in this season aim to save social resources and encourage consumers to support sustainable development. The item explores the improved design of outdoor styles, and focuses on durability and transseasonal wearing. The function of fabric needs improvement to adapt to flexible cutting and strengthen the recycle value. Besides, the layered match is also a key design point for outdoor styles.

Sustainable fashion drives the anti-waste concept and enduring details to become the mainstream. Exquisite traditional handicraft also becomes the important expression of clothing details. Delicacy and craftsmanship return back to the fashion stage. The loose structure and meticulous details will also become an important trend in A/W 21/22. As a kind of traditional handicraft, tassels also return back. They will be combined with exquisite femininity, normally regular.

Familiar styles often bring a comfortable feeling, and vintage style sweeps this season. Modern techniques recreate and reinterpret classic styles, and endow denim items with charming silhouettes. With the increasingly stricter requirements for clothing, the multifunctional style and neat details are combined, quite popular. Designers constantly use new forms which are totally different from conventional appearance to recreate classic denim jackets.

Recreated Classic Art is one of A/W 20/21 theme color trends released by POP in September 2019. Recreated Classic Art focuses on the classic art in the past, and explores how to reinterpret classic art in a contemporary way to make it more suitable for the future. It emphasizes awakening the classics, advocates respecting rather than copying the classics, and subverts the classical art with the modern expression form. Exquisite look, retro painting pattern, and classic color proportion take root in the fashion field more firmly, bringing strong retro genes for innovative designs.