With the popularity of vintage trend, the young lady style will rise in S/S 2021, and retro artistic decorations blend into current clothing. Spliced lace collar, changeable Peter Pan collar, bold bowknot and voluminous ruffles display girls' romance and charm. Exquisite designs and the dramatic silhouette give a strong design sense to the young lady style.

Time will leave its imperfect or rough traces, and the past will revive in the future. Futuristic gilding effect marks the time traces and reveals the imagination of the past and future through rough textures and heavy metal materials. Feminine silhouette and placement gilding allow gilding to show a warmer and softer metallic quality in A/W 21/22.

Womenswear continues the minimalist trend, and adds various design details to upgrade simple styles. Diagonal lace and twisted draping fabrics renew minimalist items and enhance their charm. The neckline with straps and cutout are applied to simple styles. Skin-exposing design decorates the simple look and creates a new sexy appearance. Beaded tassels, rhinestones and jewellery embellishments create glamorous boudoir styles and party looks. Chain and structured boning appeal to avant-garde consumers.

Combined crafts become the main trend of pattern craft for knitwear. Basic stitch and jacquard in knitwear are combined with embroidery, print, bead and applique to enrich pattern expression techniques and create a refined pattern effect, thus highlighting the space contrast between virtuality and reality, or thickness and thinness. With the popularity of minimalism, simple crafts dealing with same colors and same materials are also non-negligible.

As a manifestation of the mass psychology, clothing has been influenced by all aspects of society. Under the background of the pandemic, people will focus more on the consumption for the purpose of protecting their own health and safety, and their awareness of self-protection will be further enhanced. Thus in A/W 21/22 protective clothing becomes important. The combination of urban leisure and outdoor sports enhances functionality and brings more practical designs for knitwear. Details on the head, shoulder and back will help with the design of new items.

Victorian style refers to the dressing style from 1837 to 1901. Victorian style features the large-scale use of lace, thin gauze, ruffle, ribbon, bowknot, multi-layer cutting, crinkles, and shirring elements. And royal court styles such as stand collar, high-waist, princess sleeves and gigot sleeves are dominant. With the popularity of vintage trend, this luxurious and subdued soft style will bring a brand-new visual experience for us.

Pattern craft has always been an indispensable part for menswear. Currently when street fashion pursues statement-making patterns, original patterns are combined to add novelty. 3D foaming print becomes a key point of this season. Hot-press taping is combined with applique and offset print. Multiple combinations of patch and embroidery bring a superior hand-made feeling. It's worth mentioning that digital positioning print will definitely become popular with young consumers with its strong individuality.

Urban dwellers pursue a high-quality life, and knitwear is warm and comfortable in autumn and winter. In addition to its thickness, delicate stitch textures also add details. In the new season, stitches are combined with patterns, with geometrics, florals and twigs to create stylish textures and patterns on the knitwear.

With the rapid rise of Internet and digitization, people live in a quick-paced society, and love this digital age with rapid economic development and abundant materials, but they also long for a poetic and tranquil life. The combination of spiritual comfort with material need also brings inspiration. Contrasting mixed materials become hot and create the new visual aesthetics. Practicality is also key. And the mixed leather is a key splicing trend.

According to the latest online retailing information of mega brands, in A/W 21/22, the switch between leisure and office is a mainstream design direction. The OL style trousers and casual trousers are combined or mix & match, catering to consumers' pursuit of leisure and comfort. Especially the tailoring style combing long trousers with suit pants is a key recommendation.

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.

Free retro style sweeps the globe and denim pattern craft becomes the key point. Embroidery draws much attention and has a practical commercial value. As a decorative method with a long history, it has a high ornamental value. It brings a special texture effect for denim and adds a 3D feeling. Embroidery will draw more attention, including positioning colored embroidery, padded embroidery, embroidery printing & embroidery, badge embroidery and leather embroidery.

Novel and refined clothing gradually reveals a practical style. Durability is the key word, further highlighting the importance of sustainability. Fashionable items and practical clothing complement each other when consumers balance between work and life. These features can be added into designs to create multifunctional items. Practical details are key to creating multifunctional and salable items.

With the increasingly popular retro fashion, styles from various decades of the 20th century are also reproduced. In spite of the changing fashion, the wedding dress always keeps its romantic and elegant, intellectual and pure feeling. Vintage means not only the inheritance of the classical but also the innovation of modern clothing. Graceful and intellectual elements of the 1950s are extracted to redesign the modern clothing, which becomes a highlight of the new season.

As consumers pursue high-quality and individual clothing, in A/W 21/22, men's business leather outerwear changes, revealing an elevated simple luxury feel. The outerwear in A/W 21/22 pays more attention to individual details on simple styles, such as the stacked pockets, back design, double zippers, linear design on garment body, slit on cuffs and placket design, enhancing fun and the visual impact.

In this dematerialized world with unprecedented technological development, contemporary art has a growing influence on people's life. Artistic inspiration is interrelated and relevant, whether in the installation art, visual design or increasingly developed clothing. For clothing expressions, clothing cutting and craft will present modern art forms.

As a necessity in summer, the versatile T-shirt can bring various styles. In addition to changes of style and accessory, pattern crafts inject vitality into T-shirts.

As knitwear gets more ready-to-wear and consumers increasingly pursue high-quality clothing, traditional embroidery gains more attention. In A/W 21/22, embroidery pays more attention to the color contrast with the knitwear body, different combined elements, the combination with other crafts and handmade embroidery effect, bringing a simple yet chic visual feeling.

With the development of knitting industry and demand for individual knitwear, color, structure and line present the visual blocking with the help of neat cutting. Contrasting designs such as length, asymmetry and different materials create basic items. Details are applied to the neckline, shoulder and cuffs to be both practical and good-looking.

The design of line and plane is an important design theory and expression form in clothing. In the report of Plane Construction Aesthetic -- Craft Trend of Men's Knitwear, we mention that in A/W 20/21, the design of line and plane emphasizes the relation between plane and 3D space and it is fit for the young urban business style. However, in A/W 21/22, due to the blurred boundary between business and daily wearing, in addition to the relation between plane and 3D space, color-blocking is also emphasized and style tends to be fashion leisure. The jacquard multicolored stripes, 3D curved lines, blocks and design on the edge work with stitches, jacquard and splicing to integrate color-blocking into each detail, showing a simpler and younger leisure style.

In the modern era of rapid development of digital technology, the exploration of digital horizon is increasingly affecting every aspect of life. Digital filter, 3D thermal pulse technology, infrared imagery, digital exposure and other technical means of image processing methods are transferred to the clothing to create avant-garde patterns. Chinese fashion patterns prevail globally. 3D illustrations and hand-drawn patterns gain wide attention with their uniqueness.