When it comes to the middle of the year, staple transitions come. Even if situations presented some challenges in the beginning of 2025, Arabella still sees chances on the market. It is evident from recent client visits we received. It shows that we are on a right path to embrace and adapt to the current situation.
We would like to share more stories with you about our recent clients visit. But today, let’s keep our eyes on the changes on the market first in case you missed something.
Color Trends
The global color institution WGSN released 2 colors reports for kids wear and gym studio & accessories.
For gym & fitness markets, WSGN suggested 3 color palettes for decoration and accessories in gym studios. They are “High-fashion Neutral”, “Vivid Bright” and “Recovery Tone”, which can enrich and ignite enthusiasm of gym consumers.
Besides, WGSN also sees color trends for kidswear in SS26. Along with global warming, dark and timeless colors still domain. There are 4 suggested color themes as below: “Earth Home”,”Trophic Beauty”,”Future Industry” and “Summer Pastel”, representing caring for environment as well as soothing feelings that people are seeking.
Theme 1: Earth Home
Theme 2: Trophic Beauty
Theme 3: Future Industry
Theme 4: Summer Pastel
Based on these trends, WGSN has summarized action points for kidswear designers and purchasers as below.
1. Invest on deep colors the whole year.
2. Explore and promote more colors inspired by AI and digital world
3. Develop a long-term color strategy
4. Review the feasibility of color strategies
Markets & Policies
The U.S. President Donald Trump stressed that his recent tariff policies are aiming to support domestic manufacturing of military and technology instead of clothing. He indicated that he agreed to standpoints declared by the U.S. treasury minister Scott Bessent about manufacturing , who said the U.S manufacturing sees no necessity to develop anymore.
His comments has ignited an uproar and discontents in the clothing industry. The president of American Clothing & Footwear Community stressed that 97% apparel and shoes are imported and tariffs are causing higher cost for the whole industry which will do harm to consumers’ benefits.
The tariff policies’ consequences also reflect on the markets. The latest PMI (Purchase Managers’ Index) survey data from S&P Global Intelligence appeared a deterioration in April, especially in Canada, Mexico, the U.S.,and China. However, slight increases had shown in Eurozone
Nevertheless, manufacturers and purchases worldwide still hold confidence in May.
Brands
(May 28th) British sports brand Umbro and and Denmark designer Stine Goya collaborated and released a new capsule apparel line. Combining with football, color-blocking and y2k street-style, this capsule has 7 pieces including mini-dress and windbreaker.
(June 3rd) Gap has worked with Malbon Golf to debut a joint golf capsule collection. This capsule is released to show “timeless and individually styles across generations”.The capsule includes 33 pieces including oversized shirts, shorts, bomber jackets and caps., etc.
(June 4th) American ready-to-wear brand Veronica Beard cooperates with sports brand HEAD to debut limited tennis capsule series. The capsule will have 8 styles including zip-front dress, jackets, skorts, tops, sports bras and leggings. The main color theme will be white, sage green and terracotta.
(June 4th) Anta Group announced that they have finished the acquisition of German outwear brand Jack Wolfskin, which will become the 12th member brands to fulfill their blank of outwear markets.
Spotlight on the Latest Activewear Brand Launches
The trends of recent collections updated by top brands shows a transition from trail running to indoor training. Colors went bolder and brighter.
Stay tuned and we will update more for you!
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Post time: Jun-09-2025