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.

Gen Z who grows up with the Internet and digital age pursues individuality, has their own personalities, and advocates avant-garde looks. Fashion leisure style and avant-garde fashion brands create statement-making items for Gen Z. As a key item, sweatshirts in the new season blend with gorgeous colors, different fabrics of similar thickness, and contrasting accessories to create chic sweatshirts, further highlighting the vitality and individuality of Gen Z.

Climate change is changing the rules of the planet, which drives us to notice the microworld and explore the dreams of plants. The most primitive alga expresses the most rebellious ideas of plants. The world today seems to be breaking down and being reorganized. The grass-root class comes together for changes that institutions or governments cannot make, and we are beginning to explore the revival of localism in this globalized world and its significance for the future.

A/W 21/22 Theme Forecast

The Wimbledon Championships in June 2020 is suspended due to this pandemic. Roger Federer, a grand slam of four major tennis tournaments and with the world's highest score, has raised money for Australian wildfire. Tennis has developed from an aristocratic competitive sport into a general public sport, and tennis apparel is also affected by the vintage trend, showing a light retro style in 2021. Womenswear is dominated by sets and dresses, and the length is longer for convenient movements. Considering sweat and due to the pandemic, tennis apparel features detail craft changes, as well as the breathable and antibacterial fabric. We recommend Ralph Lauren's latest Earth Polo which is a waterless dyed polo shirt made from an average of 12 plastic bottles, and a tennis skirt in bio-fabric released by Adidas × Stella McCartney in 2019.

Fabric and detail of accessories are deeply influenced by fashion trends and decorative designs. Designer brands also interpret classic accessories through brand-new techniques. They focus on elegant feminine details, including traditional and avant-garde elements. Comfortable plush and individual quilted fabric create items fit for the extreme weather.

Influenced by the pandemic, consumers change the way of holidays because of not only the attention to health and environment but also the finance. Holidaymakers prefer the restorative vacations not far from where they live. Underwear sets also gain much attention. Retro underwear gets simplified, and fashion items also absorb the design elements of fitness wear. Comfort runs through all underwear, and simple versatile shapewear is popular with the young market. Practical value and end use are priority.

Modern women turn towards rational consumption, advocate the pursuit of high-quality life, and decorate the look with small accessories. The minimalist style solid knitwear shows elegance with the help of pearl, gemstone, button and belt. The collocation between accessory with knitwear is emphasized, so urban women can fully enjoy the quality life brought by entry luxury decorations.

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.

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.

As the carrier of womenswear fashion, floral will continue to influence the pattern trend for A/W 21/22. Contrasting colors and block changes work together to help with the development of women's knitwear. The combination of letter and pattern, blurred yarns on the edge of jacquard and abstract swaying twigs will lead the direction of women's knitwear.

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

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.

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.

As "restraint" is increasingly prevailing, simple design will grow in A/W 21/22. Home exercising, the horror style, Bauhaus minimalism, outdoor modular design and dystopia will run through the A/W 21/22 sport market. A single color and small-scale color decorations are used, breaking the restrictions of season and fashion trends. Inspired by Stone Island and the collaboration collection of ROKSANDA x lululemon, warm or cold tones are complementary to neutral colors, presenting a bolder autumn palette. In the new season, color is closely tied to the fabric quality. More accurate quantification of color through fabric to clothing is our appeal for sustainability in the sportswear market. Colors fit for the whole year are explored.

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.

After the novel coronavirus spreads around the world, governments and healthcare systems impose strict activity restrictions. This pandemic restricting consumption allows consumers to rethink their values for spending and shopping, and forces us to pay more attention to practicality, storage value and social meaning. Face masks are our protective barrier currently, and they become an important accessory.

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.

With the popularity of "recreation", designers draw inspirations from daily clothing, and focus on those normal decorations in the past. The old decorations lie in the closet or shelves for years, and in the same time, they are produced and copied, resulting in the loss of the design sense. Designers redesign and enhance the quality of these things, and bring a naive and nostalgic style for them.

With the increasing demand of consumers for a better life, people turn from pursuing convergent consumption to pursuing individual consumption, and pay more and more attention to the attitude of self-expression and innovation. Entry luxury has been a daily mix & match because it brings a fashionable and free feeling.

As consumers pay more attention to health and exercise at home, products' versatility and expansion of service cycle are more important. Female consumers hope to show the figure while taking exercise, especially the upper abdomen. Ergonomic unibody knitting technology is combined to create functional and personalized items. Different items are created for different exercises. The service cycle of products focus more on sustainability and whether the fabric is healthy to human body. Technical methods, unsalable stocks and recreation of fabrics can be adopted to reduce the resource waste.