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Update Bags: Trims & Textiles

Care & Recollection. Craftcore themes are influencing the vast majority of categories from clothing to accessories during summer season. Inspired by DIY and artisanal consumers are seeking for creative activities as new ways for self-fulfillment or as a means to escape the wheel of consumerism. As activities such as knitting, crocheting, braiding a up- cycling scraps and leftovers enter our lives on larger scales, their humbling aesthetic is causing an overarching visual shift. Refined designs fuse purer aesthetics with intricate creativity to resemble ancient artifacts. Deeper meanings seem embedded in accessories now and are strongly inspired by nature and craft:

Curated fabrics include organic straw and visual weaves to evoke rural lifestyles, while meadows and reptile skins allude to the planet’s biodiversity. This human celebration also sees lively knitted styles for hippie vibes and can be mixed with the dopamine trend for even more tangible youth and joy. Shells and shore finds are also sliding into the category to recall the freedom of deserted islands and holiday resets. Within beautiful handcrafted techniques, consumers are offered a sense of humbleness and antiquity. It is also noticeable how textured surfaced balance the more polished directions. Following the digital evolutions, the future is set to be going digital, where intangible fluid shapes, new volumes, spongy surfaces and metallic add-ons will propose a new sense of perception and modern visual effect.

Trending Textiles

Sleek Straw

hot trend
+51%

YOY

Joyful Knits

trend up
+45%

YOY

Visual Weaves

stable trend
+51%

YOY

Monogram Maintenance

stable trend
+20%

YOY

Chic Canvas

hot trend
+35%

YOY

Modernized Meadows

trend up
+10%

YOY

Dopamine Rainbows

trend down
+9%

YOY

Tasteful Terrycloth

stable trend
-8%

YOY

Reptile Skin

trend up
+11%

YOY

No-fuzz Nylon

trend up
+32%

YOY

Airy Effect

trend up
+86%

YOY

Trending Trims

Metal Handles

stable trend
+108%

YOY

Best of Beading

stable trend
+81%

YOY

Modern Metals

stable trend
+1%

YOY

Statement Chains

stable trend
-5%

YOY

Shore Finds

stable trend
+17%

YOY

Balanced Accessories

For summer season, textured surfaces and curated details direct the bag market. Crafted textures and add-ons raise strong interest for consumers, with searches for crochet bags increasing by +60% YOY. Other knitting and weaving techniques also match this desire of the market. Straw and canvas bags are refined into hot items with restorative properties. Elevated nature seems key to bag’s versatility, balancing chic and rusticity for the ideal match to adapt from daily to elegant.

Feminine refinement is essential for craft-ridden themes. Consumer interest in fancy details like beads are steadily rising. Searches for beaded clutches increased by +40% YOY adding a more grounded sense of glitz, as compared to the frivolous spark of recent winter season.

For youth markets, strongly influenced by nostalgia,  nylon bags come back, inspired by trending Prada relaunches that are giving the market a faded feeling of the early 90s. Those smooth and shiny surface provide a distinctly casual, anti-glitz, streetwear element to define the flashback vibe for summer .

The data in this report is extracted from Instagram and show the trend evolution year on year. On top right, the Livetrend icon explains the forecasting for next season. The Livetrend Stamp is an indication of the status of the trend, from edgy and early signs to last call ones, resulting from the cross-reference of Instagram and market data.

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Date:
6 June 2022
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