In this era full of challenges, consumers hope to find a comfy and pleasing experience in amiable nature. Colors remeasure the relationship between us and objects and create a soothing and optimistic vibe. This report starts from healing pastel colors, trans-seasonal neutrals, intense browns and calm greens to present current trends.

Prints that span seasons are key for loungewear, and influenced by decorative home interiors. Consumers want durable and multifunctional clothes that can be worn throughout the seasons. Prints and colors are key. Natural dyestuff contributes to popular floral plants and natural textures, thus creating natural and sustainable items. Warm and nourishing earth tones and plant-based hues make items ideal for the whole year. Following new Bohemian trend, decorative patterns like ikat and paisley are used as versatile prints. Retro prints inspire bold stripes and geometric patterns to appeal young consumers.

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.

Samoan Sun is one of key colors mentioned in Protogenesis -- The Color Trend for The Mature Lady Style Knitwear. The seasonality of colors is blurred, and Samoan Sun becomes an important color for transition. It displays the passionate, positive and optimistic Samoa. Samoa is a tropical island country in the southern Pacific Ocean. With many folk myths and legends, it originally believed in witchcraft and worshiped leaders. The unique pattern and color of its totem inspire women's knitwear. Colonial rule changed its national belief, and this special backdrop adds tensile vitality into the bright yellow. On 29 December 2011, Samoa adjusted its time zone from UTC/GMT-12:00 to UTC/GMT+12:00 (from West Zone 12 to East Zone 12), from being the last country to see the sun to the first to see the sun. Samoan Sun represents a new beginning, making folk colors more elegant and exquisite. Fine stitches and simple details are key to its application.

The popularity of French style drives the rise of maximalist decorations on edges. Exquisite decoration craft shows the French style. Colors on edges are retro. Rope embroidery, embroidery on edges and cutout embroidery decorate edges of French style items.

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.

As China's status in the world continues to rise, it is now enjoying a global reputation. Chinese cultural elements have become the favored elements in the fashion industry. More and more designers apply Chinese style elements to clothing, and Chinese silk is the favorite in the fashion week. This theme will analyze the contrast between oriental traditional elements with fashion trends, and explore the unique culture and regional style in China, so that Chinese traditional fabrics can blend with modern, technical and futuristic elements, and fashion trends can create new visual aesthetics.

The Exquisite Life -- The Color Trend for A/W 21/22 Women's Overcoats

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.

Oil paintings of Marc Chagall have bright and gorgeous colors, and bring a surreal dreamlike charm. Chagall draws inspirations from the plain images in nature, and subjects are mainly about lovers, romances, and Jewish legends. Chagall integrates love into the paintings. Different colors represent different good meanings, which is blended with the rhythmic textures of oil painting. This also inspires the development of knitwear colors. In view of trend and data analysis, we select four representative colors, "the flowing blue pigment" displays the neat cutting; "Baltic" has the crystal blue-green, quite inclusive; positive and optimistic "limelight" shows a ladylike temperament; "exuberance" renews the tones of commute clothing. (The inverted body in Marc Chagall's painting is deeply moving. The figure will turn yellow or green after praying for a long time, so Chagall's yellow and green represent sincerity.)

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.