In A/W 21/22, light business knitwear focuses more on stitches. Fine stitch changes become the breakthrough of designs. Rearrangement of point, line and plane brings a new textural effect for stripes. Argyle creates novel patterns and placement cables highlight the entire feature. Basic stitch creates concave-convex textures. Worn-out design is statement-making.

Comfortable wearing experience and soft touch draw much attention to cater to actual needs in real life. Simple and modern aesthetics evokes comfort. As a key craft for knitwear, fine-gauge creates a tensile space and concave-convex textures, and get strengthened by extraordinary details and workmanship, driven by minimalist aesthetics.

Under the influence of climate change, politics and economy, increasing people pursue the simpler but more intelligent life concept. People advocate the beauty, creativity and opportunity brought by a simple life. Therefore, "less is more" becomes a key style and inspires women's knitwear. Simple streamlined design is key. Color-blocked fine stitches divide parts. Overlocking emphasizes and decorates the edges. Color-blocked inserted ribs show the simple but not ordinary craft trend.

In spite of the development of science and technology and the improvement of living quality, people increasingly long for a slow-paced life. Therefore, an exquisite and fine design sense becomes the new dressing need. Driven by this trend, fine-gauge becomes more important in men's knitwear. Classic stitches are combined in a new way, showing vitality. Fine stitches depict delicate textures.

Badge, as a classical element in men's knitwear, has been a carrier of fashion. It is quite decorative on the mono-color item. In the new season, embroidery, rhinestone, bead and stitch work together to create various badges, fully blending modern urban utility with perennial elements. Combination of pattern and craft shows the individuality of contemporary men.

Influenced by internet thinking, Gen Z pursues consumption upgradation, focuses on the experience and seeks for fun highlights. In order to meet their demands, decorations and elements are noteworthy in women's fashion leisure knitwear. Edge designs, color-blocked drawstrings and pocket changes create young and vigorous looks for women's knitwear, and build a youthful vibe with the contrast between color, pattern and crafts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

With the development of China's economy and technology, China's culture soft power has been improved, and fashion genes also need improvement. Elements of romanticism and classics have been subtly transformed by contemporary methods. Oriental design concepts and aesthetics will embrace essence of other civilizations, and there will be new Chinese designs in the new season.

The minimalist aesthetics always occupies a certain space in the fashion world. This season women's knitwear emphasize the appearance change and transfer stitches to create 3D sleeves. The appropriate space is free and easy for the body. Smooth lines are in line with human curves. Subtle changes of details display the fun of simplicity.

Splicing is the key craft of knitwear design. Splicing with other materials enriches the change of silhouette, detail and color. Consumers also like the impact brought by mixed materials. Due to the blurred boundary between business and daily, here we analyze from the slight business style. Functional collar, cuffs and pockets are hot. Suede and textural knitwear are spliced, quite novel. The splicing of knitwear with shirt and sweatshirt is also non-negligible.

The knitwear design is getting more and more ready-to-wear. Many details of knitwear need to consider the match with other items. Thus collar design is an important design direction. This report aims at commute styles of the simple & sophisticated style, and concludes collar changes like shirt collar, mock-neck, bow tie and accessory. It also makes key analysis of collar types, style silhouettes and match.

A piece of spliced clothing that combines knitted and woven fabrics implies structure changes and secrets to diversified clothing collocation. It can bring a warm and skin-friendly wearing experience, fit for early autumn. The organic combination of ready-to-wear with knitwear will provide new inspirations for new season's development. Compared with previous seasons, this season pays more attention to the direct splicing of materials, and uses inserting or sewing silhouette to integrate naturally.

Young and fashionable businessmen are not satisfied with the calmness and seriousness of classic business. They favor craft cutting and mixed looks, and pay more attention to details on the neckline, cuffs and side parts. The diversified combinations of stitch, yarn and jacquard will gradually replace the flat and simple color blocks, so the eye-catching points on placement can highlight the feature of entirety, showing the self-pursuit of urban men.

Slim young females are seeking for a style in line with their aesthetics in modern urban life. In spring and summer, proper skin-revealing can be close to nature and relax selves. And cutout is one key element to be light and breathable. Balancing the design sense and wearability, cutout in the new season will pay more attention to dainty looks, the combination with transparent yarns and accessory decorations.

Influenced by the trend that knitwear gets more and more ready-to-wear, the loop yarns with a wool feel draw attention again. Compared with previous heavy big loops, fine small loops become the new trend. And the touch is softer and finer, emphasizing the granular texture of small loops. So various crafts are adopted to display the fine loops, including basic crafts like stitch and jacquard, machine embroidered applique or machine embroidery, embroidery and beads. They can be used to create all-over patterns or partial decorations.