Applique is an unexpected masterpiece born in helplessness. Poor people in the past used embroidery and patch to mend the broken clothes, and these delicate handcrafted works become the applique. As a decoration element, applique has been popular in the fashion world for long. And with the development of crafts, creative effects are accepted by more and more consumers, such as multiple badges, cutout, multidimensional, raw-edge, fringe and craft combination.

The key point of infants' printing is being safe and eco-friendly, so designers choose to use simpler and more lovely patterns. Simple elements are arranged all over the garment to realize the cute effect. This report presents single-element printing on infants' wear through various crafts, including popular heart pattern, cute cookie word, simple vintage thing, romantic flower and shining star.

Pattern design is the core element of T-shirt items. Graphic & text pattern designs are reformed and combined. The composite expression is richer. Multi-layer craft presents abundant visual effects. Rhinestone, bead and edged embroidery are added into normal printing to catch eyes.

Coco Chanel once said that lace is the greatest invention of human that nothing is more elegant and exquisite so far. Nature endows us with endless inspiration, and designers can always find better ways to express it through yarns. This report will give designers new ideas about lace pattern from the aspect of natural elements.

Monotonous pattern can satisfy the individualized requirements of consumers no more. Multiple crafts are combined and overlapped to present clothing patterns. Multi-layer craft presents rich visual effect. Rhinestone, bead and embroidery are decorated on common gel printing. Dimensional letter is also a popular craft. Printing and spraying are applied on embossed surface to present the multi-layer effect. Thick-textured puff printing presents more voluminous effect. The combination of print and embroidery ingeniously decorates the printed pattern. The must-have badge and label element is presented by applique, printing and embroidery this season, which catches eyeballs and increases the playfulness.

The interpretation of letter pattern is always the key developing direction of men's knitwear. Multi-form, minimization and craft combination are the keywords, which shows a more minimalist style trend. Stripe, ring, wrong-vision fold and size contrast enrich the pattern forms. Hand-written or printed letters are combined different colors, textures, arrangements and imprinting to present practical and variable letter design.

People will endow daily lives with their living conditions and desire. The influence of post-epidemic era, unsteadiness of social economy and natural changes can make people love the pretty nature more. In the current fashion world, many plant and flower elements show up with multiple design styles, which is fashionable and fits people's willingness. This report will interpret the natural beauty through the introduction of holiday memory, casual nature, flowing camouflage, punk retro and abstract freehand painting.

Pattern is the key carrier to express theme concept and brand tonality, which has individuality and fits the fashionable trend and current affairs. The new combination and balance of clothing style and individuality have more profound meaning. In the post-epidemic era, Lightness Story provides unencumbered sweet impact. The natural elements of Gemstone Texture and Solidification Moment soothing the upset emotion. Artistic Classic Reset, Impression Art and Fluorescent Imprinting present the patterns with blurred boundary in retro and stylish ways. The digital art brought by NFT Trend is a noteworthy pattern, and Virtual Nature takes us to discuss more possibilities of fashion. The A/W 22/23 keyword report will be updated continuously.

Art and fashion are just like two surfaces of one thing. Psychedelic Op Art was widely used on clothing design with the development of spinning and printing techniques in the 1960s. To echo the trendy 60s retro style, Op Art comes back to the fashion stage and injects fantastic and illusory colors into A/W. The latest Louis Vuitton A/W 21 runway was collaborated with the surreal Op Art of Fornasetti to reinterpret the classic checks. ANNAKIKI A/W 21 presented the psychedelic future through the theme Wormhole.

Consumers are paying more attention to self-concern, and mental health and emotion condition will definitely affect the pattern design. Dazzling colors provide positive visual and healing effects. Watercolor pattern is combined with brand label to update the expression of Logo. Heart-shape is still a noteworthy element. Color blocking challenges the optical nerve in variable forms.

Under the digitalization of global fashion, artists use complicated techniques to provide cartoon, scenery design, carving, painting and photograph with more diverse and abundant visual effects through digital art. They bring us a new way to present the physical world and virtual world. This report will introduce the works of digital artists, which are suitable for developing womenswear patterns, to provide inspiration and ideas.

Heart-shaped element is the key point of fashionable leisure knitwear. Playful and edgy patterns are more lovable in A/W 22/23. This report will demonstrate the heart-shaped design through five points, all-over cyclic heart-shape, dotted heart-shape, weird heart-shape, major heart-shape and line-drawing heart-shape. Heart shape made by ottoman knit is also a noteworthy craft in this new season.

High-saturation neon-light flower provides intensive visual impact. The proper application of these patterns endows clothing with beauty. This report will introduce distressed flower, dense ditsy florals, distorted flower, neon-based flower and painted neon.

The craft design of pattern is always the core element of menswear design. Since young individualization has become the normality of menswear markets, letter pattern craft is also reformed and integrated. The expression of letter pattern is richer. Digital and electronic elements play an important role in the markets, and the combination with letter pattern craft provides brand new visual effects. Process combination is presented in more forms. Neon offset printing constantly occupies the markets for its bright colors. Digital variant endows basic letter pattern with newness. Notably, letter rubbing attracts the public through futuristic light and shade.

The pattern of business menswear constantly presents the understated delicacy. Now creativity is added to produce durable items. The combination design of letter, geometry and line provides variable expressions. Reshaped geometry and filled patterns endow minimalist menswear with delicacy. Partial distortion shows design sense. All-over dotted line extension and logo variation inject uniqueness into gentlemen wear.

Animal skin printing have been applied on clothes since ancient time. People were wearing animal leather then to protect themselves from the complicated living condition. However, animal skin is now closely related to the fashion world. This report will introduce the distinct beauty of geometric animal skin, linear animal skin, painted animal skin, botanical animal skin, ombre animal skin, neon animal skin and classic animal skin.

Flower pattern is an essential element for pattern design. This report will demonstrate how to make flower design suitable for various styles through the introduction of bowknot&flower, geometric flower, scarf pattern, realistic large flower and hydrotropic floral embroidery.

The representative patterns on kidswear used by big brands are very important to the development of designers. We can get the recent hot topics and future fashion trend from these popular patterns. This report will introduce the reference patterns and crafts of big brands.

Undoubtedly, updating pattern crafts inject additional value and improve the attraction. Layered craft presents rich visual effects. Playful decorations, beads and embroidery on prints and unintentional brand logo all provide highlights. The popular multidimensional puppets are eye-catching and enhance the vitality.

Influenced by the diverse social background, the pattern craft of denim is also more diversified. Pattern design pays more attention to the expression of art and culture connotation. No matter from the perspective of national spirit or totem worship, fashion designers should consider the changes of people' concepts and create designs through the combination of patterns' decorative property, practicality and artistry. This report will introduce the most noteworthy discharge print, burnt-out print, digital direct injection, water-based print, plastisol print and rotary print.

As one of the most important elements for pattern design, letter uses novel changes to express individuality and fashion. Letters with attitude are reinterpreted through distortion, dimensional effect, collage and graffiti accent. The changed colors of letter and background make the pattern have richer layers. Text or shapes are composed by letters, and imagery expression endows patterns with a more interesting spirit.