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Instagram Update: Prints

Creative Energies. This summer season provides a prolific moment for brands to restore print creativity and invest in a variety of themes to feed consumers’ appetite for new design. The pandemic showed us how classics prevail as the safer bet during crisis, this liberating moment caused an explosion of innovation on the flip side. While stripes and polka dots conquered the scene for an unexpected revival, other familiar motifs as gingham, paisley and animal prints, were re-invented and spiced up to respond to the zeitgeist. Dopamine dressing remains important , driving bold and more vivid colors to elevate artistic prints into protagonist of the hot season. Even tie dye, infiltrating the scene for a couple of seasons now, has been given a nod: the self-made dye effect gives way to a digital mix of colors now. Augmented colors fuse with blurred and digitally retouched finishings, creating new shadowed auras. While some consumers are seeking for new digital techniques to intrigue their wardrobes, others are chasing the rediscovery of nature: the selection, is wide and diversified, ranging from fruit and horticulture themes, immersive landscapes to beautiful logbooks of nautical elements. As a matter of fact, consumers interest recently diverged into a new intimacy with mother nature, especially as talks on climate changes and the frenzy city life become unbearable after a lockdown lifestyle. Therefore, a recollection to primal knowledge surfaces new subtler aesthetics of simple and primitive symbols.  New prints are based on cave art and ancestral motifs to perceive the world through powerful signs that trace back to our roots.

Trending Prints

Floralia

chariot
+10%

YOY

Zebra Manic

stable trend
+7%

YOY

Interlocking Stripes

stable trend
-20%

YOY

Polka Dots Revival

trend up
+4%

YOY

Nouveau Gingham

stable trend
-22%

YOY

Blurred Dye

trend up
+36%

YOY

Resort Paisley

stable trend
+9%

YOY

Art Pieces

stable trend
+73%

YOY

Fruitful

stable trend
-32%

YOY

Cave Art

trend down
+65%

YOY

Immersive Landscapes

trend up
+38%

YOY

Nautical Encyclopedia

trend down
-37%

YOY

Butterfly Wings

trend up
+29%

YOY

Millennial Mergers

trend up
+21%

YOY

The Print Multiverse.

The fashion market is slowly re-adapting to a pre-pandemic state, enhancing fresh experiments for prints to nourish the upcoming hot season. These past few months represented a new beginning for brands, challenged to innovate what, after such tough times, looked obsolete. Traditional motifs offer the possibility to test familiar patterns with new aesthetic: e-commerce is currently dominated by classics as florals (28% of the overall assortment), stripes (13% of the overall assortment), checks (8% of the overall assortment) and polka dots (4% of the overall assortment), which reassure, yet feel revived on a second-glance.

Resort themes also am up, showing increases of paisley prints (+9% YOY), and nautical motifs. Those familiar patterns seem re-interpreted with an exotic taste, as  far-away destinations appear in reach again. The desire to explore the horizon beyond the busy urban lifestyle is more tempting than ever.

This summer season is strongly influenced by dopamine-dressing aesthetics and while classic prints stand out as the re-invented heritage, new colorful patterns are to watch: artistic motifs, increasing by +73% on e-commerce YOY, and vivid tie&dye, increasing by +36% on e-commerce YOY, are the eye catcher of these warm months, with vivid color blocks to restore happy memories and delicate rainbow dyes to set a joyful and enchanting atmosphere.

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11 May 2022
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