Autumn/winter 2011/12 yarn and color trends

Lead: Color plays a central role in this vision. Bold, vibrant, and highly saturated hues are combined with soft and positive tones, creating a dynamic visual impact. Not only does color enhance the sense of flash, but it also achieves this through glossy metallic finishes, adding depth and allure.

The Time Chapter

As another autumn season approaches, we step into a period of renewal, rejuvenation, and discovery. We embrace the concept of time—every aspect of our lives is defined by it, and our individuality shines through its passage. Yet, time has nothing to do with being outdated. We are moving forward with fresh ideas and new perspectives. As time moves on, we should enjoy life, avoid envy, express creativity, and leave a lasting impression. It's time to move beyond the past. >> Color Trends 2011/2012 Fashion Trends <<

This season is all about contrasts and bold choices. The goal is to lead trends rather than follow them, to break away from conventional paths, and to celebrate diversity and integration while crafting a unique identity. Color remains a powerful tool in this process. Strong, bright, and fully saturated colors blend with soft and uplifting shades, not just to create a flashy effect, but also through metallic gloss treatments that elevate the overall look.

Both yarns and fabrics showcase sophisticated techniques that produce various surface effects—texture, luster, diffused halos, and velvety finishes. Through blending, twisting, and printing, they deliver a rich and colorful appearance. In this vibrant season, novel yarns and fabrics have taken center stage, overshadowing simpler blends. However, focusing on fiber selection is key—not getting lost in complex mixtures. By daring to use unique fibers, you can create standout effects, such as soft mohair, luxurious silk, or metallic sheen. It’s time to move away from traditional norms and embrace originality, expressing your distinctiveness and desire for self-expression. Through the concepts and developments presented at the Shanghai International Fashion Yarn Show, we guide you through four chapters, each offering a unique experience and revealing the charm of re-creation.

The Time for Fun

Vibrant color combinations, including striking winter greens, highlight the strong, bright tones of modern styles, along with deep purples. Explore the wonderful “Self” through playful activities and experiences. Make the most of time by trying something new, changing, and reinterpreting movement with a fresh color perspective that seamlessly integrates into daily life. This trend reflects the culture of the tech-savvy generation—people who quickly lose interest in the old and constantly seek new stimuli.

• Natural and human-like rendering are equally important
• Drape, fluidity, and a sense of movement
• Simplicity, density, and abrasive treatment
• Create an exquisite shine using suitable fibers or mercerizing
• Expressive and vibrant yarns and fabrics
• Technical processing with the latest innovations
• High stretch, sporty
• Create colorful graphics with color and patterns
• Bright stripes
• Simple microtexture
• Shiny multicolored, shiny

Time to Avoid Embarrassment

A soft color palette featuring pink camel, warm bronze, and soft brown is enhanced with dark rose and blue-gray to add depth. Low-key luxury evokes a desire for comfort, emphasizing subtle beauty and the pursuit of new perfection. Intimate tailoring reveals a gentle, charming silk that conveys natural elegance. It’s luxurious yet rustic, with a reserved wildness. Indulge in personal time, enjoy a leisurely lifestyle, and find beauty and vitality in the passage of time.

• Powder treatment
• Soft color, shiny shine
• Use hair and brush to create a diffuse surface effect
• Feathers, crepe, pleated trims
• Luxurious sheen
• Polished metallic color
• Soft and smooth texture
• Uneven surface, revealing natural copper green
• Fine thin texture, elegant and transparent
• From the fine to the profound layering
• Exaggerated and unexpected pins
• Create a blurry, subtle relief through color

The Time of Creation

A rich and full color palette features warm tones like reddish-brown orange, dark red, gold, and bronze, complemented by lively cyan and pink. These elements come together to create a vivid artistic atmosphere. During this time, explore your own ideas, discover new inspirations from art forms like painting, printing, and craftsmanship, and reinterpret them through futuristic techniques. Express yourself freely, enjoy DIY beauty, and push your style to new heights. Discover freedom, identify yourself, and redefine your identity.

• Showcase a fascinating appearance—handcrafted or rough, but soft and silky to the touch
• Extensive use of surface treatments
• Novel textures and unique fiber blends
• Soft and rounded appearance
• Fleece and napping surfaces
• Vibrant, dazzling gold and metallic colors
• Velvet-like feel
• Multi-color effect in hair and clip yarn
• Printing and hand-painted designs
• Thick but lightweight
• Irregular texture
• Milling, simple, and generous
• Bold use of rich patterns and colors

The Time to Remember

Mysterious charm emerges through dark, intense colors like ink blue, gray, black, and even futuristic purples. A shiny gloss highlights polished gold and silver, creating a decorative relief effect. This era celebrates the special, precious, and exquisite. At the same time, we aim to bring creativity into the future, making it more relevant to modern life. Combining the heritage of the past with a simple futuristic style, and enhancing it with technology, we achieve a perfect balance. This time emphasizes elegant charm, merging traditional decorative forms with modern aesthetics to reach new levels of sophistication. It shows passion, desire, and satisfaction in reshaping oneself and staying in tune with the times.

• Intricate, high-count yarns, slim and silky, strongly twisted
• Various polished surfaces, high gloss, matte shine
• Various shiny finishes
• Shiny, old metal effect
• Fur-like appearance
• Feather effect
• Large velvet decorations
• Lace and folds
• Nostalgic appearance
• Silky drape, flow effect
• Slightly crumpled surface, soft texture
• Super soft shine
• Ingenious and beautiful decoration, clever use of jewelry and embellishments

* International Fashion Show SpinExpo *

SpinExpo, the international fashion yarn show, takes place every two seasons in Shanghai. It offers the most creative and global platform for fibers, yarns, knitwear, and knitted fabrics. The SpinExpo Trend Forum brings together designers and textile academies from around the world, releasing quarterly yarn and color trends to shape the direction of global knitwear fashion.