Pattern crafts play a key role in men's knitwear. In the new season pattern crafts get more novel and fun. Inspired by light and shadow changes, print endows patterns with new vitality. Jacquard craft brings rough and irregular edges. Hand-drawn lines are overlapped, quite casual. Letters are displayed via various crafts, providing novel changes.

In this materialistic and digitized era, people yearn for a more realistic and down-to-earth world. Natural plants and florals become an important trend in A/W 20/21 with their soothing visual impact. Pictures of jungles and camouflage reflect people's inner desire. Designers combine fashion with natural art, which makes the item more superior and meets consumers' demand for forward-looking clothing.

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.

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.

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.

Camouflage, originating from military and combat readiness, has been endowed with rich design connotation since its birth. Mow it is widely accepted as the representative element of fashion trends, and considered as an important expression of military style. In A/W 20/21 shows, camouflage also follows the trend. With increasingly hot natural themes, traditional camouflage is renewed. This season based on natural elements, camouflage blends with floral, branch, leaf and marble texture. Floral camouflage in the darkness is quite novel. Branch camouflage and marble camouflage are more practical and marketable.

Based on latest catwalks for A/W 2022 womenswear and other information, this report concludes ten pattern highlights, and recommends latest patterns.

Tie-dyed pattern remains hot. Natural patterns can be used as the improved tie-dye. With the promotion of sustainability, denim is the first to use eco-friendly acid pickling to create mottled items. Abstract patterns are fit for various markets. In latest A/W 20/21 shows, LI-NING, FENG CHEN WANG and MSGM all apply abstract mottled textures to outerwear, knitwear and sets in terms of color, appearance and application.

Letter is indispensable for the fashion industry. Taking a look at A/W 20/21 shows, brands prefer to use simple designs. The combination of different fonts, redesign of letters and the change of decoration parts inject novelty, simple yet not ordinary.

Graffiti, scattered in city corners or in details of life, is always surprising. It carries a strong style and characteristics of the times, and fully display the essence of current street culture. Letter graffiti, figure graffiti and fun graffiti all present the novel maximalist theme and show unique attitude of current youngsters, so they are applied to clothing, shoes, bags and accessories, quite popular.

There is no shortage of romance in Paris. Along with the song, the A/W 20/21 collection of Valentino menswear kicks off. The brand brings the romance of women to the menswear. Flower images by Dutch photography group Inez & Vinoodh appear in large-scale on the clothing. Designer Piccioli says: "Life needs emotions. Over the past two decades, men have changed more rapidly due to changes in women's social roles and work methods."

In A/W 2021, it's more urgent to protect the nature, and more people will join. Besides, science and technology are changing our real life quickly. In the era when informationization and digitalization develop rapidly, people yearn for a more realistic, beautiful and down-to-earth world. Real scene of nature creates a soothing visual impact. Some conventional and negligible artistic techniques gradually draw much attention. Zebra stripes and camouflage express people's inner call, fit for fleece.

Under the trend that clothing advocates minimalism and feminism, the maximalist aesthetics will find a breakthrough in apparel category of small proportion. According to related data, the economic slowdown and the rising of living cost have not affected young people's consumption enthusiasm, and cosmetics and culture and art products are selling well. This is the "the lipstick effect". (Please check details in Fetish Young Women -- The Accessory Trend for Women's Socks) As a functional accessory in cold season, accessories can be matched with garments, and optimize the consumption experience. In A/W 21/22, maximalist patterns will add novelty to scarves, socks and gloves, and the de-branding high-quality products will be favored by pragmatist.

The warm and soft knitwear is necessary in winter. Flexible and changeable stitch letters unlock the pattern craft for men's knitwear. Strings, stitches, yarns and accessories are adopted to present exquisite styles, helpful for men's knitwear development of fashion and leisure style.

The change of logo has been sweeping other industries for a long time, for example, Logitech, Google and Lenovo have updated their logos. Design techniques like sans serif and de-graphic bring new interpretation of brands. Gucci, the leading luxury brand, is not restricted to the sacred symbol. Logos creatively adopt various crafts to deepen consumers' perception of the brand.

With the popularity of street fashion style, embroidery is more and more prevailing. Embroidery appears frequently in fashion shows in recent seasons, and we predict that it will rise in A/W 20/21. Pattern and craft are combined to conform to the form. This report focuses on the embroidery and displays various crafts.

Wedding dress is the dress to show the gorgeous and dazzling image of a bride, so wedding dress has mainly colorful, gorgeous and exaggerated designs. With continuous changes of fashion, people are willing to accept new information. Wedding dress is not restricted to gorgeous decorations, and it steps onto a new fabric design road. Crafts are abandoned, such as beading, sequins, cutout and gilding. And fashionable textural fabrics become the mainstream. 3D jacquard which is dominant highlights the plainness, elegance and the embossed sense of the fabric through deliberate designs. 3D decorations and textures are used to contrast the elegant and noble bride.

Exquisite hand-drawn line drafts with Christmas elements are the mainstream of this season. Abstract, transformed and simplified patterns are more in line with current aesthetics of young consumers. Elements are diversified and unified.

Music, images, old things are carrying the marks of time and the past. Classic elements of a certain era can always evoke people's emotional resonance. Every year there are brands launching works to pay tribute to the classic. Elements reminding of the old time can lead new fashion and are the true meaning of vintage.

Chain element is throughout the fashion industry. Chain first enters people's view as the gold chain, but now it becomes necessary for catwalk looks and fashionistas. In recent two years, more and more designers apply it to clothing. Chain is born with the fortitude temperament. But it can also create a gentle and graceful side with the help of other elements. It is an extremely expressive and changeable element.

Since the alpaca becomes the online celebrity, it turns from an economical animal to a likeable pet animal and gets favored by people worldwide as a daily design element. This season many kids' brands like Catimini and JoJoMamanBebe adopt various techniques to display the alpaca in the pattern. Starts from big brands, this report combines with crafts to conclude alpaca patterns .