Autumn Winter 2026-27 Knitwear Trend Forecast
 
For brands that want depth, direction and a commercially aligned knitwear strategy.
AW26–27 is a season where knitwear becomes more than product — it becomes protection, identity and emotional intelligence. Texture turns into language, material becomes mood, and innovation feels human again.
 
The AW26–27 Knitwear Trend Forecast is your strategic guide to the future of knitwear — a clear, design-ready system that translates emerging cultural shifts into 15 defining narratives. These stories help brands design with intention, evolve with relevance and create product that resonates on both emotional and commercial levels.
 
Built through future insight, material intelligence and aesthetic clarity, this forecast reveals how knitwear is adapting to new expectations around comfort, protection, sustainability and sensory connection.
 
This Forecast Helps Brands:
Design with confidence using culturally aligned knitwear direction
Understand how material, texture and silhouette are evolving
Fuse craft and innovation without losing brand identity
Translate conceptual insight into commercially ready design
 
Inside, You’ll Discover:
15 defining knitwear narratives for AW26–27
Moodboards and material direction for yarns, finishes and construction
Craft-plus-technology insights exploring advanced fibres and low-impact innovation
Concept-to-application pathways that move seamlessly from narrative to product
 
AW26–27 is tactile, intelligent and deeply connected — a season where knitwear expresses protection, adaptation and poetic form. It’s where innovation meets intuition, and where material becomes meaning.
 
The future is knit — ready to shape it?