In the post-coronavirus era, outdoor scenery symbolizes vitality and new hope, and will heal and soothe us. More and more brands draw inspiration from outdoors for their new collections or advertising campaigns, including Jacquemus, Gucci and Acne Studios. As for crafts, outdoor bright colorway and complicated crafts are employed to express good wishes.

We roam in the natural wilderness and feel the free spirit of rebellious vagrancy. Natural landscape once again touches the visual senses and stimulates the multi-dimensional color evolution. Buckskin and Olive Branch are practical and vagrant, classic for outdoor style. Citrus and Whisper White balance these colors and display the diversified fashion attitudes. Deep Forest and Silver Blue reveal a charming poetic emotion. From life to nature, classic and attractive natural tones perfectly interpret the new outdoor fashion.

Details and decorations on swimwear are quite eye-catching on social media. Details are key to salable core styles. Year-round items emerge in the swimwear market, offering opportunities for sales. Decorations and details add newness to core styles and create surprising commercial products. Salable items mix with new highlights to renew perennial items, appealing to the market.

The development of the society drives diversified needs. Hand-drawn graffiti and street print are cool, diversified and statement-making. Striking letter patterns, perennial animal prints, novel skull elements, expressionistic pop art figure illustrations and casual hand-drawn graffiti bring a dramatic fashion.

The vast wilderness exudes an original natural fragrance. We temporarily escape from the trivial life, set foot on soul-touched rebellious journey, roam to break shackles in grand nature and perceive the heartbeat of wild nature. Steep mountains, lush grasslands and snowy mountains, the pristine landscape lead us into a strange and fantastic dream of nature. In the new season pattern designs contain geomorphic features and folkloric elements.

With the development of the society, consumers pursue high-quality and individualized clothing. In A/W 21/22, mixed materials are changing, which brings a new visual impact and a layered sense. Outerwear in A/W 21/22 pays more attention to individualized fabrics, such as splicing of trench coats, splicing of puffa jackets, splicing of knitted fabrics, contrast of front and back panels, splicing of denim and splicing of wool. These spliced materials enhance the visual impact.

The COVID-19 pandemic, turbulent politics and unstable society trigger our fear. And the digital technology spreads fear quickly. People are eager to escape from reality and extends their individuality through surreal, dark, edgy street looks. Maison Margiela A/W 20/21 displays a surrealistic artistic collection via digital video. Therefore, in A/W 21/22 the mystical dark tone will prevail in womenswear fabrics, appeals to young consumers via charming street fashion culture and drives the rise of horror aesthetics.

Creativity and artistic concepts are more integrated with current lifestyle. Modern artistic architectures are popular and inspire men's knitwear. Stitch and splicing blend blocks, colors, textures and qualities in modern architectures into knitwear, showing the minimalist blocking effect of line and plane.

With the rise of utility, urban consumers shift their focus from fashionable looks to versatile durable items and pay more attention to multifunctional and multi-occasional items, thus further blurring the boundary between leisure style and commute style. Designs should be multi-occasional to meet modern women's needs.

Sportswear gradually mixes with trendy colors and elements in ready-to-wear and becomes more fashionable. Accessory change is more important. Creative drawstring is combined with color-blocking and new zipper. Statement-making tapes enhance the chic feel. These designs add highlights to the new season. The textured wrist warmers and hoods with accessories are worth key attention.

Hip-hop culture rises, and sweatshirts symbolizes the rebellious subculture. Varied sweatshirts emerge and become the fashionable versatile clothing for the mass market. Sweatshirts are gender-neutral, chic and functional, well blending comfort and fashion.

Rainbow gradation is prevalent, because it brings vitality we miss. Most of the time, people convey their expressions via colors. And the ombre is impressive, aesthetic and appealing. It is applied to changeable patterns. Dynamic colors reveal a vigorous and chic touch and help people find a colorful life.

As a main element, geometric patterns promote the modern, intellectual and statement-making fashion trend of leather and fur. Geometric patterns are simple yet bold, readable and visible. They can be used as large-scale color-blocking or dainty patterns. This season bright color proportion replaces calm black and white, and frequently used geometric elements make a bold and contrast visual impact.

The unstable social environment motivates people to focus more on comfort and protectiveness. The loose shape, as a key part for layered match, brings a sense of being wrapped and protected. Influenced by femininity trend, the princess style and retro A-line shape will gain more attention. Necessity economy drives the popularity of simple durable products. With the core of comfort, practical details are added to meet market needs.

Social changes transform consumers' habits, and necessity economy brings simple durable products to the spotlight. Influenced by the COVID-19, "less is more" life concept has been a must. Modular all-year design will appeal to comfort-driven consumers. Home will be the haven for existentialists to soothe themselves. Modern lines and geometric patterns balance the need for safety via their simple and pure beauty. Tones covering designs and arts tell the peaceful long confession.

As the protective concept prevails in A/W 21/22, characteristic and high-quality double-faced wool regains popularity in menswear. The super-thin "zero-gravity", traceable wool, tearable crafts, the one-side checked double-faced wool and dense warm fuzzy texture bring a new direction for A/W 21/22 men's double-faced wool. Compared with previous seasons, the double-faced wool exudes its different charm this season. It presents a hand-made quality and displays the protective function. Besides, healing Brown Sugar is a key color in the future, quite noteworthy.

Data shows millennials are polarized in personality. More of them like to try new styles and creative styling. Fashionable short puff jackets and plain casual puffa jackets prevail among them. Puffa jacket sets also appear. The lightweight and chic styling taps into their pursuit of a good appearance and warmth.

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.

3D effect is concave-convex, bringing a strong visual impact. Embossment, textural jacquard, 3D embroidery and 3D decorations all contribute to statement-making 3D patterns.

Emerging innovative crafts allow denim to continue traditional techniques and exude its own charm. Mottled splashing of brand-new digital print and random bleaching are more eco-friendly and make a stronger visual impact. Bold emphasized edges explore a new way to design denim. The colored surface brought by free coloring endows the item with a novel design sense. Tie-dye starts from simple linear and arc designs to create the unique beauty.

The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 influences the globe. The fashion industry is under an unprecedented challenge. As people focus more on their home life, home style grows and multifunctional items fit for both home and daily life become a must. After the pandemic, everything will get back on the track, so pure healing colors as well as simple comfy silhouette will be a mainstream.