Happy New Year from Arabella Clothing team and wish you all have a nice beginning in 2024!
Even surrounded by the challenges after pandemic as well as the haze of extreme climate changes and war, another significant year passed. More changes happened in the industry almost in a blink of an eye last year. Still, a high attention to the daily news could help us remain the high sensation and help us dig more in the fashion industry. So, today just grab your first cup of coffee and join Arabella as we take a look back of the last week of 2023.
Fabrics & Expo
Intertextile, one of global textile and fabrics exhibitions released the theme on Dec.27th for Spring Edition in 2024 which will take place during 6-8 March called “TURBULANCE”. There are 4 trends represent the fabrics in SS25: “Grace”, “Immersive”, “Switch” and “Voices”.
“Grace” is a trend of quiet luxury lifestyle, celebrating peace, love and joy. The area will show gentle color and high-end quality.
“Immersive” is a focus on comfort and relaxed, minimalist style. The contrasts colors, functional, stretchy viscose, jersey and cotton would stand for this trend.
“Switch” is a new dimension of high-tech, experimental and personal of everyday outfits. The recycled polyester, polyamide, cotton satin, glazed poplin and more vibrate patterns would domain this trend.
“Voices” is treated as an instinctive New Age fashion. It combines raw character, positivity and improvisation. The trends features with velvety surfaces, decorative and artistic patterns.
Brand
Lion Rock Capital Limited, whose Non-executive Chairman is Lining, announced the acquisition of the Sweden outwear brand, Haglöfs AB on Dec.29th. The acquisition shows their ambitions of expanding the product line to outwear and European markets. It wasn’t too long after DECATHLON announced their acquisition of the outwear brand Bergfreunde.
Along with the consumer’s traveling rush after the pandemic, there are more sportswear brands expanding their product lines to the outwear. Outwear might become the daily essentials for people in the next few years.
Product Trends
According to the observations in previous swimwear catwalks of Fashion United, the metallic elements on fabrics and accessories domain the design of swimsuits, such as the swimwear brand OMG Swimwear, Axil Swim, Luli Fama and Namilia.
Actually, the metallic designs on apparels is a reflect of the nostalgia style recently. For example, the fabletics just released a new collections of yoga wear, whose fabrics shows a shiny surface, combines the futuristic and a y2k looks. The shiny, metallic elements might still become a main design among these brands under the background of the high development of AIGC and people’s nostalgia moods.
Market Trends
McKinsey unveiled the 2024 annual fashion industry reports on Dec.25th. The report predicts some possible trends happen in 2024 that might make a big difference for this industry, such as the rising of emerging Asian markets, the possible threats to the supply chain brought from extreme climates, consumers’ traveling rush and the trends of “gorpcore”, sustainability and fast fashion...,etc. However, Arabella believes there will be 2 keywords domains the fashion industry year of 2024: sustainability, quality and high-function. Besides, collaboration will matter a lot in supply chain in the background of after-pandemic.
Colors
After Pantone reveals the color of the year Peach Fuzz, the fashion news network Fashion United made a collection to show the applications of this gentle and elegant color from the catwalks in the past. Grab a look how the color was been used in previous looks through here.
Brand Released
Germany’s Puma just unveils the high-performance Fit collection on active apparel and PWRFRAME TR3 on training shoes on Dec.23th. What is worthy of attention is that, to enhance the wearers’ workout experiences, the collection includes the triblend tee equipped with Drycell technology for moisture management and ultrabreathable mesh shorts for men, and form-fitting, functional tank top with Eversculpt tech also the high-waist 7/8 versatile training leggings for women.
Functions, sustainability, high-tech, experimental, nostalgia...these keywords showed up in the last year remains the top topics and might still catch people’s eye in the next year. We could clearly see these that people starts getting more practical and sustainable wearing recently. It is inevitable that the active apparel and outwear will be seen as the represent of people’s daily wear, which is why Arabella keep focusing on assistance of active wear brands’ production and designs.
If you are planning to embrace this fashion trend, Arabella would be delighted to take you a lift.
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Post time: Jan-02-2024