Patterns add a sense of design, and pattern crafts underline the quality and charm of items. Different crafts use color changes and varied combos to bring visual contrasts, display exquisite details and make items more appealing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Varied persons in our daily life can be applied to clothing in an artistic way. Scholarly watercolor, abstract crayon drawing, fun illustrations and color blocks display figures vividly. Those figure patterns and their facial expressions convey artists' inner emotions and show the wearer's fashion attitude.

The development of science and technology drives great changes on people's lifestyle. And a group of geeks who pursue creative technology and fashion stands in the frontier of new economy, cutting-edge technologies and fashion. Inspired by this trend, twisted pixelated letters, futuristic linear patterns and letters, computer codes, malfunction patterns and other technical themes bring people to the future world.

Check is ever-lasting in the fashion industry. Seemingly simple lines exude an infinite appeal. Taking a look at catwalks, designers reform checks boldly, combine them with hot expression forms, and create brand-new visual aesthetics via layering or reorganization.

Political turmoil, economic instability, and this sudden pandemic magnify people's panic about the future. In this digital age, panic spreads globally. A group of fearless youngsters advocates expressionism, and extends their individuality through surreal, dark, edgy street looks. Faced with this bad social environment, young people are suffering from unprecedented emotional impact and psychological gap, and try to find emotional vent. Dark fashion presents people's anxiety and fear in the most direct way, thus horror aesthetics rises in the fashion industry.

Letter plays an important role in pattern design. Letter changes extend individuality and inspire designers. Serif and sans serif are common forms, and sans serif is favored by designers with its simplicity. Hand-written form and curlicue are highlights of the new season.

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.

As a common pattern, letter is widely used and combined with various crafts. Print & embroidery is the core expression in this season. Glossy print and 3D embroidery enrich the pattern. Splicing enlivens the pattern. Delicate beads create refined high-end ready-to-wear. Textural 3D print and decorative letters are highlights. Multiple crafts make the pattern tensile and layered, showing more possibilities.

Classic art is like an inexhaustible treasure of inspiration, exuding powerful charm. On the 500th anniversary of the departure of the artist Leonardo Da Vinci, the Louvre has opened an exhibition on the subject. Off-white launches a capsule series around this theme, combining classic paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci with its logo. The combination of classic art with modern letters implies people are exploring how to reinterpret art in a more modern way.

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.

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.

Paisley pattern has a long history. It originates in ancient Babylon and flourishes in Persia and India. It is said to come from the leaves of The Tree of Life in Hinduism, which is Bodhi leaf or the date leaf. This iconic pattern, with its hidden messages and foggy symbolism, has come a long way. It travels from east to west along the Silk Road, decorates the headbands of cowboys and cyclists, and is accepted by 19th-century Bohemia. Then it gets more famous thanks to the Beatles, and becomes the symbol of rock and roll.

This is an era when Millennials and Gen Z are the main force of consumption. They use live streaming and online platforms to obtain styles and items in line with current trends. And influenced by promotion videos and social media, they have great love for fashionable styles. So designers start from youngsters' recognition of "Fashion" to create stylish items through bright-colored offset printing, divided print, print & embroidery and piecing.