The 24/25 autumn/winter cotton down jacket features a wide variety of color choices, presenting a pink color with moderate purity and saturation overall. The warm and cold colors complement each other, while some basic colors ensure practicality. As a key clothing item in autumn and winter, cotton down jackets have attracted much attention in color direction and occupy an important position in consumer purchasing decisions. This season's cotton down jacket colors are bolder and richer without reducing practicality. This article combines the most topical down jacket brands and POP forward-looking colors to extract 9 key colors, bringing more comprehensive reference value for the new season's color development direction.

This article brings together key trends and reference development points for 24/25 autumn/winter cotton and down products, including macro trend perspectives.

24/25 autumn and winter cardigan items rotate between dazzling colors and unique base colors to create tension and practicality. As a key transitional item for autumn and winter, colors play an important role in consumer purchase decisions. This season, while maintaining practicality, the richness of colors has been increased. This article combines the most topical brands and futuristic colors to extract 8 key colors, providing a more comprehensive reference value for the development direction of new season colors.

As lifestyle changes, indoor temperature remains constant regardless of the seasons. Under this background, attention is paid to mid-layer single items that meet seasonal clothing needs. Lightweight and breathable fabrics, which are typical for spring and summer, still dominate in autumn and winter. Due to the climate characteristics of autumn and winter, designers prefer natural, highly breathable, moisture-absorbing, soft and comfortable silk fabrics for their designs. Through trendy style design and fashion matching, silk fabrics are increasingly favored by young consumers. This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the consumer market and ongoing research and development of silk fabric production technology. It focuses on the texture of the fabric, material processing technology, and final usability to present the trends for silk fabric in the 2024/2025 autumn and winter season.

A/W 24/25 leather and fur present a delicate and elegant visual effect through natural neutrals. As the most critical item for autumn and winter, the color direction of leather and fur has attracted much attention. The leather and fur for the A/W 23/24 tend to be a soft and classic urban color scheme, bringing a practical and gender-neutral natural visual effect. The color scheme for the leather and fur in the A/W 24/25 is full of natural texture and meets the sustainable concept. It is best used in large areas, and colors that are not too eye-catching are also the most versatile. This season, a total of 8 key colors have been extracted, bringing a more comprehensive reference value for the new season's color development.

Silhouette is still the key to developing knitwear in A/W 23/24. Middle-length vest extends the shoulders and presents casualness; popular undershirts are joined by feminine tailoring and delicate accessories to improve the charm; the special silhouette of curvy pullover covers the body defects on arms and buttocks, while the use of pale colors is rather graceful; the stitching of cardigan is diversified; functional jackets pay more attention to heaviness and patchwork; minimalist knitted dresses are more suitable for office ladies.

The theme Multifaceted Player conveys that these unconventional cross-border people desire for a carefree and unlimited lifestyle in this diversified background. They are always switching between different characters and scenes and enjoying the fun of being a multifaceted player. The fashion world is also trying to be break the restraint of design to meet consumers’ need of multidimensional symbiosis.

Retro Time conveys the spiritual expression of Gen Z consumers' nostalgic emotions and awakens the memory of the golden age via scene replays. Discovering the oasis that we desire for, an escapist journey is started the high summer. With the use of joyous tones, new elements are joined by the old to present a retro vacation style. Retro Time hopes to create a relaxing and carefree mini-vacation atmosphere for the busy teenagers in city. A self-healing summer rhapsody reminds us of the passion and romance in summer, and reinterprets the highlights of that classic, golden age.

The current fast-paced life puts many urban youths and women under huge pressure. Stress not only appear in emotions such as anxiety, confusion, collapse, but also takes away our happiness when we event don't notice it. Modern women with multiple social identities are too easy to wrap themselves too hard, finally be trapped in high pressure. What's needed the most is the self-released of drama healing, to find another relaxed self. Let your heart return to a light state, as well as your body, awaken the inner feminine power of women!

French style is known for its minimalist yet romantic and elegant looks. The interpretation of knitwear will be from the perspectives of must-have element, craft and item. Embroidery, stitching and jacquard are used to present the delicate flower, bowknot, check, lace and rhinestone, which can accentuate the romantic and relaxing feminine charm.

"National confidence" and "cultural output" are right on trend. Due to the instability of foreign economy, international trades transfer to sales in domestic market. Many OEMs working for foreign brands turn to serve domestic customers and sell on e-commerce platforms, which accelerate the rise of Chinese products. Consumers find that local brands also have good quality. From Chinese Fashion 1.0 to 2.0, domestic designers emerge on international fashion weeks to disseminate and inherit Chinese culture. From May to July 2020, the sales of Hanfu on T-mall overseas platform get a year-on-year growth of over 20%. As classics fuse with modernity. Chinese style is given a new lease of style.

The retro trend is continuously affecting the whole fashion world. And this season, modern style is injected into the retro to present a new modern retro style. The clothing collocation of jeans has a stronger expressiveness, retro flared trousers with modern vent, rising cuffed details and modern floor-length trousers with retro colors. And delicate fabrics and patterns are chosen to combine. This report will recommend clothing collocations of new modern retro style according to key scenes. And each collocation has a high utilization rate.

The sweater vest item has a rising trend in this season, feminine grace is added to the remained neutral-gender style. In 2022 early autumn, the slightly waisted knitted vest presents a modern New Look and reappears the elegant women lines. The layered vest and shirt underline the feminine power. Inspiring from the collocation of equestrianism, high-ribbed sweater vest becomes an important item. Following the stylish Too Cool Aesthetics, vest is the important Too Cool element. The collocation of sweater vest and silk dress can present feminine temperament the most.

Pressure and anxiety in reality drive us to long for beautiful dreams, which leads to the birth of many virtual and dreamy objects. As for clothes, more and more sheer and light items keep rising. In S/S 2021, clothing collocation pays more attention to layered match between lightweight items, rather than complementary items such as cover-ups. Multiple clear layers make the styling vague and light.

With consumers' admiration for traceable and public goods, fine craftsmanship shows a growing momentum. The laissez-faire of liberalism is replaced by the restraint of restrictionism. Leisure and plenty of time regain attention and offer high quality and versatility, allowing people to pursue minimalism and elegance. Yarns blend with sustainable fibers and artificial fibers to reinforce functionality. Natural landscape and architectures inspire textures, expressing fine emotions in the free life. (This design capsule gets the help from Wuxi Zhiwu Clothing Design Co. LTD.)

A/W 21/22 Theme Design & Development for Womenswear

In this era when everything is changing, more and more traditional modes are challenged, and many industries realize their disadvantages and try to find their own way. Therefore, we abandon the transient mode that flows with the crowd, and underline the individualized, practical and mixed boundless mode, so as to inspire creativity. Clothing, as the reflection of reality, shows trends including long over long, short outer and long inner, clear layering, short top and long bottom, mix and match. The series of reports about S/S 2022 key words will continue.

The self-consciousness of modern women is strengthened, and increasing independent women enter the workplace. Urban commute womenswear is also getting prevailing. Versatile and wearable suits become the top priority of consumers. Knitwear pays more attention to silhouettes, pursue comfort and elevated quality and show a neat urban office lady style.

Modern women like casual styling and pay more attention to comfortable wearing and plain colors. Diversified items also bring more styling choices for women. Smooth fabrics interpret the casual and comfortable lifestyle. This report explains the clothing collocation of mature lady style from mixing and matching of dresses, slips, outerwear and casual pants.

With the awakening of environmental protection consciousness, caring for ecology is a key theme in life. For clothing industry, clothing needs to be comfortable and fashionable as well as durable. This theme elaborates the minimalist style from perspectives of sheeny soft fabrics, minimalist vest sets, clothing collocation of dark-colored vests, office style shorts and cropped sets.

People always hope that the good time can be fixed, and the painful time is fleeting. Just as the philosopher Henry Bergson defines time as indivisible, accumulating and flowing, time never goes back, but the marks of time can be folded. There are many prosperous times in history, and the classic things will be reproduced in the new era with the time lapse. We often seek new meanings of classical wisdom in a turbulent world, hoping to meet its era. Biological age is just a number on the timeline, while mental age is the ultimate appeal of women in the new age. Downplaying numbers and focusing on a youthful mind may be the most meaningful way how we live in the vast time.