Animal prints play an important role in prints. On A/W 20/21 catwalks, animal prints remain favored by designers. Unlike the sexy feel previously, recent animal prints incline to a neutral and elevated appearance. In addition to realistic sexy leopard print, dotted simple leopard print is more practical. Hawksbill texture resembles leopard prints, so the natural gloss is a key way to distinguish them. Tiger print and snakeskin use unisex colors to tap into the market.

As a common pattern, letter is widely used and combined with various crafts. Print & embroidery is the core expression in this season. Glossy print and 3D embroidery enrich the pattern. Splicing enlivens the pattern. Delicate beads create refined high-end ready-to-wear. Textural 3D print and decorative letters are highlights. Multiple crafts make the pattern tensile and layered, showing more possibilities.

Technology changes our era. The high temperature of magneto-caloric effect brings heat as well as energetic Orange Tiger, driving us to explore the future and the unknown.

Patterns are fun, imaginative, and eye-catching. This report takes illusory patterns as the main design technique, and combines them with prints. Highly realistic hand-painted bag is used as the print on T-shirts, quite surprising. The skeleton print shows a dark high street fashion. Accessory prints such as zipper and chain deliver a unique design sense. Hand-drawn draft brings more possibilities for simple T-shirts.

Unveiling mysterious Purple Heather is to travel through the time tunnel. Just as digital waves are free from the constraint of space, Purple Heather takes us to the parallel world of the past and the future.

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.

Classic art is like an inexhaustible treasure of inspiration, exuding powerful charm. On the 500th anniversary of the departure of the artist Leonardo Da Vinci, the Louvre has opened an exhibition on the subject. Off-white launches a capsule series around this theme, combining classic paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci with its logo. The combination of classic art with modern letters implies people are exploring how to reinterpret art in a more modern way.

A/W 21/22 Theme Forecast

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.

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.

With the advent of 5G era in the Internet industry, technical progress has an strong impact on people's life. Intelligent technology is constantly upgrading people's home life and the way of leisure and entertainment, and consumers who like to stay at home are getting closer to the virtual world. In addition to online selling, human-computer interaction, AR technology, 3D try-on and other technologies have also been realized. Technology has exerted a strong influence in this pandemic. It enables people to make bold attempts on operation mode, consumption idea and even design concept in advance, promotes the progress of human civilization and shows a profound influence on the fashion industry.

Off-White A/W 20/21 menswear collection has teamed up with the Zurich-based painter Pascal Mohlmann. In addition to portraits and nudes, he loves to paint realistic still lifes of everyday objects. This time Off-White combines his paintings of wrench, warning board and medicine box with brand logo, creating an artistic vibe. This report analyzes everyday objects, and takes on the form of graphic & text.

Deconstruction and splicing are perfectly combined, which drives the innovative design of A/W 21/22 menswear and adds many highlights to puffa jackets. Parka, long overcoat and bomber jacket are blended with men's puffa jackets, enriching the silhouettes. Detachable design and modular structure work with color-blocking and mixed materials, leading the silhouette trend of A/W 21/22 men's puffa jackets.

Grunge was originally a musical style originating in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was a combination of heavy metal and punk music. At that time, financial crisis and economic recession led bandsmen to embrace durable denim pieces, resulting in a decadent and casual style. With the return of retro trend, neo-grunge style is back. Denim items in this season employ magnified and exaggerated design techniques to add a modern sloppy style, showing the collision of various prints and messy colors in a nostalgic way.

Sustainability is now an imperative. For fashion industry, clothing accessory should carry out sustainability, including adopting basting stitches, using multifunctional detachable pattern, applying silicone accessories, and enhancing consumers' DIY awareness to create their own items.

Optical Art is an art that uses optical illusion as a technique of expression. It produces the illusion of vibration or deformation through a dynamic picture created by color and geometrics. The black and white optical artworks created by the British painter Bridget Riley in the 1960s became the inspiration for fashion designers, and drove the craze for optical art trend which led to a greater diversity of clothing designs. Taking a look at the A/W 20/21 four fashion weeks, we can see psychedelic patterns are widely applied in this season. With the return of vintage trend, designers reinterpret the Optical Art in this season.

Reversed Future combines early futurism and modern apparel design. The exploration of virtual digitization brings a world that "never happened". It provides possibilities to street brands, with Gen Z, electronic music, street arts and subcultures to update the concept and create a diversified and mixed fashion system. Street brands make a statement through better silhouettes, patterns and materials. This theme gives new directions for design.

The Color Trend for A/W 21/22 Women's Puffa Jackets

As more and more independent women understand the importance of their own needs, they are more willing to express themselves confidently, which also influences their choices of clothing. In A/W 21/22, silhouettes will be neat and minimalist neutral based on practicality, making womenswear tough and powerful. Puffa jackets will also add self-heating, warm and insulation fabrics, so that even light thin puffa jackets can also be warm in the cold winter.

In the fashion industry, even elegant brands such as Coach and Gucci are attracted by children's drawing. Children's drawing not only belongs to children, but also creates a joyful world for adults.

The 5G technology revolution has brought subversive changes to the future life. The closer relationship between people, as well as people and objects forces people to rethink intersubjectivity. Artificial intelligence and enhanced intelligence are now on the road of collaborative integrated development, and a new era of human-computer interaction has arrived. The scientific concept of simplicity and efficiency advocated by the 5G era is similar to Bauhaus, a product of the last century's industrial age. In A/W 21/22, bright synthetic color is in response to the era of 5G technology. RGB color is generated by digital source code, and virtual code language reproduces the ombre color in high-purity that does not exist in nature. Color overlays on the program language, with electronic methods to enhance the color saturation and brightness, so that the synthetic color in A/W 21/22 will be more technical.