Escapism still remains in A/W 21/22, people are running toward nature under this outdoor trend. The rising skiing heat attracts more and more rookies and they expect to purchase durable and highly cost-effective products. High-quality fabrics and silhouette structures are the noteworthy points, fashion is also essential. Colors, patterns and silhouette should present the functions overpass clothing's.

Denim is the best carrier for creativity. The dynamic charm and street attitude of jeans make jeans a non-negligible category every season. Denim supports every mainstream. As high fashion gradually deviates from street wear, street fashion becomes the most significant style for youngsters. Designers explore and experiment various bold colors, washed effects and print crafts to show creativity. Though fitted silhouettes remain appealing, loose silhouettes are popular with the young market and will still dominate. Practical workwear jeans will fill in the blank of practical denim. Sustainable washing crafts and textile technology will bring more impacting washed designs and provide individualized and aesthetic street jeans, without harming the natural environment.

Sustainable development is the topic of the public, resulting in the change of people's lifestyles. People pursue a comfortable experience, and eco-friendly cotton and linen style returns back. A/W 21/22 will center on cotton and linen colors. Plain and healing colors reveal people's pursuit of wellness and comfort. With cotton and linen tones like Maple Sugar, Sweet Corn and Rhubarb as basic tones, Celadon Green, Rose Quartz and Light Gold contrast with each other, indicating cotton and linen style is no longer limited to conventional raw colors and pure natural cotton and linen trend. Sustainable synthetic materials with textures of cotton and linen are gradually accepted by consumers.

Living artists explore the positive Bombay Brown which is a safe color for necessities under restriction. Light business wool overcoats are layered with commute blazers, bringing basic practical looks between designs and arts.

This theme is inspired by works of seven illustrators such as Malika Favre, Mads Bergs and Jens Magnusson. They take cues from the Canary Islands and this global COVID-19 and indicate people's hope to release themselves via travel paintings. Therefore, this palette features contrast colors, depicts travels via colors according to different seasons, and analyzes the newest colorway of artistic colors.

Vagrancy is a dialogue between inner spirit and the outer world. We wander to the end of the world to discover the wild winter landscape and the everlasting light on the horizon, find the new self by respecting life and law of nature, and escape from trifles and meaningless disputes. From roaming to epiphany, we feel free and poetic, and start the self-exile with relaxing vagrancy.

We are tired of the busy and crowded city, try to find freedom and enjoy the visual beauty. But we are restricted by the reality. 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 to blend prosperous classics with modernity. Therefore, those time-tested and valuable objects can be inherited.

Consumers increasingly pursue high-quality and statement-making clothes. In A/W 21/22, elegant ladies pay more attention to daily details, including colors, shoulder, waist, sleeve details as well as side parts. Designs on side parts change the entire silhouette of clothes and create exquisite refined fashion items.

Political turmoil, economic instability, and this sudden pandemic magnify people's panic about the future. In this digital age, panic spreads globally. Horror aesthetics which helps to vent inner anxiety and fear rises. As the movie based on a children's book, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and the TV show, Are You Afraid of the Dark, are gradually on, horror themes have become a way for children and adolescents to seek out visual and spiritual adventures in mundane lives. They inspire imagination and help with self-understanding during growth. Besides, horror themes are also a secret language for peers to connect with each other.

In primitive times, people during labor express their awe of nature through rituals, music and dance. The development of industry leads to new forms of labor, and labor itself becomes more meaningful and valuable. It is more fun to acquire knowledge from labor than from books. The labor themed series extracts colors from farms, land and other natural environment. Bossa Nova, Sandstone, Midnight and Harvest Pumpkin dominate for a practical theme which mixes basic items to bring a layered sense.

Lace is the most classic feminine element. In A/W 21/22, lace displays the new female power in terms of colors and crafts. Sedate and secret is the spirit of lace in A/W 21/22, and becomes an important trend. Moreover, water-soluble paper-cut lace, skin-friendly lace and embroidery lace are more important and noteworthy.

In 18th-century France, a style amazed the world with its gorgeous colors and complicated designs. That is Chinoiserie, expressing Europeans' imagination for the oriental culture. It is the Europeanized Chinese style, full of mystery, romance and adventure.

Climate change, economic turbulence and ecological damage drive the rise of survivor theme. Healing nature and a tranquil life inspire designs and relieve anxiety. Outdoor functional clothing will penetrate into the leisure market. Centuried handicrafts and adventure spirit make contrasts, create a natural vibe and allow people to be close to nature.

The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 influences the globe. The fashion industry is under an unprecedented challenge. As people focus more on their home life, home style grows and multifunctional items fit for both home and daily life become a must. After the pandemic, everything will get back on the track, so pure healing colors as well as simple comfy silhouette will be a mainstream.

The sudden pandemic, economic depression and environmental deterioration all drive humans to respect and revere nature. People will care more about health and sustainability, and we will witness the design industry prioritizes practicality. Therefore, womenswear will focus on niche designs in A/W 21/22, thus making unique designs gain more popularity. "Influencing more with less" concept will control the market direction more precisely, so 3D cutting and deconstructed silhouette will be more widely applied.

Teenagers' advocacy of Chinese traditional culture is the embodiment of cultural confidence and responsibility. As early as the 16th century, Europe had an unlimited fantasy of this mysterious oriental country, China. By the 18th century, sinomania had reached a high point. At that time, the upper nobility regarded products from China as rare curios to show off their status. Art also frequently incorporated strong oriental features into the prevailing Baroque style. In modern times, the term, Chinoiserie, appears in design. This word refers to Europeanized Chinese style. Complicated Baroque style is blended with oriental aesthetics to open a new surreal chapter of retro luxury.

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 "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.

Currently, we are facing a climate crisis, economic turbulence and political turmoil. And the global outbreak of novel coronavirus worsens the panic. In the face of huge unpredictability, rational consumption is unprecedented high, and the market tends to be conservative, thus the demand for classic, durability and practicality is enlarged. Under this circumstance, neutral colors become core colors in the future, because they are steady, inclusive and transseasonal. With the rising trend of telecommuting, comfortable and multi-occasion clothing will prevail. Driven by sustainability, warm neutral colors and natural unbleached original colors will become the focus. Economic turbulence inspires crisis awareness. Classic achromatic tones have the everlasting charm, and meet consumers' demand for a sense of stability. At the same time, the expression and venting of people's fear of death increase the application of neutral dark colors, so combining with the vintage trend to fight against the anxiety will attract more consumers. In A/W 21/22, neutral colors will cover the market with different feelings and become core tones with a huge commercial value.

Natural disasters and economic turbulence have caused a restless feeling, and induces rebellious and illogical artistic expression. The mysterious, rebellious and bizarre surrealism clearly emphasizes that the reality controlled by reason and logic is not real, and that only the combination of dream and reality is absolutely real and absolutely objective. In A/W 21/22, luxurious colors fight against the uncertain times. The Night Fantasy escapes from the reality with illogical light and shadow, and surpasses the ordinary natural colors. Microworld explores dreams of plants and find the rebellious thoughts of them. The macro natural landscape accumulates in billions of years of destruction and rebirth, and has the most primitive instinct of life. In A/W 21/22, natural colors will be more tensile.

The dried flower is quite fresh and elegant in collections of A/W 2021. Catering to the hazy trend, florals and the dried flower get blurred through ink painting. And they are applied to silk and gauze, quite ethereal. Colors tend to be greyish and with low saturation, quite fit for the quiet and elegant autumn and winter. The technique of expression combines dry drawing of oil painting and wet painting blurring of watercolor to divide dry and wet layers and transit gently.