This season, the knitted fabric showcases the delicate weaving direction from inner layers to outerwear. With wool as the primary material, elegant tailoring and intricate craftsmanship are incorporated into the outerwear, combined with classic checks, creating a dense and textured woven feel as well as a soft and supple knitted touch. Inlaid with gold and silver threads, and featuring bubble textures, jacquard knits exhibit exaggerated and dreamy sensory effects.

This season, outdoor sports fabrics show a diverse trend of fluidity and multiple applications from the city to the outdoors. Sustainable materials and production processes create delicate textures, combining fashion with high performance to present a subtle and refined gloss. Abstract art texture printing imparts a passionate vitality and imagination to the fabric, while lightweight protective fabrics blend casual sports with urban elegance, achieving the transformation of multiple scenes.

This season, the cotton and linen woven fabrics inject a more exquisite, delicate, and innovative design into the casual style. The blend of cotton and linen with viscose, wool, and cashmere fibers becomes the material highlight, opening up new ideas for suit design. The fabric combines the rustic texture of cotton and linen with a smooth and delicate touch. The architectural aesthetic trend is presented through texture dobby, corduroy, and plaid patterns on flannel, showing a sense of detailed carving. Drawing inspiration from the denim wash style, various techniques are employed to achieve innovative and environmentally friendly fashion streetwear fabrics.

This season's woolen fabric focuses on understated luxury and comfort. The worsted wool showcases its outstanding quality, reinterpreting a sense of luxury with subtle tonal color combinations in check patterns. The blend of wool with viscose, lyocell, and other materials creates a smooth and soft flowing atmosphere. The textured tweed and granular wool provide a strong visual decorative sense and a warm healing power, while showcasing a sense of understated simplicity and luxury.

The fashion trend is becoming more diverse, and chemical fiber fabrics are gradually becoming popular due to their technological functionality. In the 2024 spring/summer men's fashion show, chemical fiber fabrics are breaking gender definitions and carrying the dual functions of lightness and protection. Glossy fabrics occupy a dominant position, accounting for about 30%, presenting a metallic flowing effect. Sheer fabrics dominated by organza, creating a hazy transparency, become a highlight of the runway, accounting for about 27%. Lightweight and flowing sun protective fabrics are mainly used in outerwear, highlighting the elegance and comfort of men's fashion protection, accounting for about 17%. In addition, fabrics with a technological coating process account for about 12%, focusing on the gradient application and iridescent effect on ready-to-wear garments. Textured fabrics express more diverse textures compared to previous seasons, with a focus on exploring natural creases in this season. PVC materials are trending upward, becoming softer and lighter, with a clear emphasis on wearability.

Cotton and linen are highly favored in men's spring and summer clothing due to their softness, breathability, and skin-friendly properties. Looking at the men's fashion shows in Paris, Milan, and London for the spring and summer of 2024, cotton and linen fabrics are mainly used to create a comfortable and casual style. Among them, basic smooth cotton fabrics account for a stable proportion of about 30%, mainly used in trench coats and shirts, presenting a dry paper-like texture and a firm fit; yarn-dyed striped fabrics, accounting for about 25%, create a sense of urban relaxation and vacation with simple and thick stripes and decorative techniques; rustic cotton and linen blends, accounting for about 15%, feature a natural texture with the feel of bamboo joints, showcasing the beauty of natural materials. In addition, the highlights and trends of cotton and linen fabrics in men's clothing this season include paper-like irregular wrinkles, lightweight translucent textures in cotton blends, and uragiri textures.

Throughout the men's fashion shows in Paris, Milan, and London for spring/summer 2024, the overall style has returned to minimalism and practicality. The clever use of accessories adds highlights to the garments. Classic elements with brand significance have been reutilized, conveying cultural reference through exaggerated or innovative visual effects.

The PERFORMANCE DAYS functional fabric exhibition in Munich serves as a special platform for functional sports and workwear fabrics, with a focus on environmentally sustainable development of functional fabrics and the use of eco-friendly materials to achieve functionality. The trend team of POP fabrics will present the latest exhibition fabric analysis reports in two directions: weaving and knitting, based on the exhibition situation. This report focuses on functional woven fabrics and analyzes eight trend points, including green materials, cellulose fibers, four-way stretch, waterproof finish, quick-drying moisture absorption, refreshing and deodorizing, cooling touch, and high-performance sun protection, from the aspects of fabric material and function, providing new ideas for clothing and fabric development.

Woven fabrics center on impressive natural, adaptive materials and high fineness. Bast fibers and regenerated cellulose fibers reconnect textiles with the natural world. Influenced by linen materials; the fibers in this season are quite noble and plain. The count of yarns is finer. The dense structure highlights the soft, smooth surface and solid body.

This report focuses on the latest trends of silky fabrics at S/S 2024 Première Vision Paris. The blending of viscose, lyocell, polyester and silk is the mainstream; linen weft is combined with satin to endow fabrics with special textures and elevate the crispness; subtle textures on the surface add a delicate flowing effect; the gloss of frosted or polished mirror gives creativity to gorgeous pieces.

Breathable and lightweight knitting is the most clear trend for knits in S/S 2024. Soft, cool-touch knits and fluid stretchy knits are the best choices. Besides, high-quality cotton fibers create precise and fine patterns.

The finished February edition of Première Vision Paris displayed well-designed fabrics. The patterns fuse reality with virtual, nostalgia with future technology, classics with contemporary art to maximize the visual impact. Dots, lines and shapes are interlaced to present the abstract art; classic animal textures, flowers and plants are showed by twisting, watercolor painting and line drawing; digital soft-focus effects and 3D technologies interpret the perfect fusion between future tech and vintage.

Cotton-linen is the most basic natural fiber. According to the analysis on A/W 23/24 menswear fashion shows in Paris, Milan and New York, POP Fashion divides the style of cotton-linen fabric into five styles: High Density, Water Wash, Fine Poplin, Diverse Stripes and Worn-out Effect.

Soft,warm knit is one of the most important fabrics in Fall/Winter, and reveals a decreasing trend on men’s runway shows. POP Fashion figures out six major styles of knitted fabrics: Stretchy & Lightweight, Knitted Wool, Fuzzy Knit, Diverse Texture, Fine & Casual and Finishing. Fine & Casual(29%) dominates the fashion show, featuring the presentation of Comme des Garcons and J.W.Anderson; Fuzzy Knit(up to 18%) is led by Zegna’s textured menswear. The proportions of Stretchy & Lightweight, Knitted Wool and Finishing are around 14%. The share of Diverse Texture(8%) is low in this season. Sweatshirt and jacket are the two main categories.

According to the researches of accessories on F/W 23/24 fashion shows in Paris, New York and Milan, we can see the strong influence brought by outdoor sports. Athletic accessories and urban commutewear are fused. Strings and buckles are used by many brands. Zippers become decorations instead of functional accessories. The design of suits is renewed by technical and surreal hardware. Retro buttons exude a warm atmosphere.

PERFORMANCE DAYS is making it possible for designers, product, purchasing and material managers to meet up twice a year in a familiar and professional environment. POP Fashion digs into the functional fabric fair and gives you analysis reports on three directions: wovens, knits and accessories. This report focuses on knitted fabrics' materials, performance and appearance.

This report digs into the 3D embellished fabrics on womenswear fashion shows in Milan, Paris, London, New York and Copenhagen. Sequined embroideries, dynamic tassels, metallic accessories, rhinestones and luxury beads are the major trends.

Jacquard fabrics are presented less frequently than other fabrics. Tone-on-tone jacquard fabric is the mainstream. POP Fashion figures out four major styles of jacquard fabric: monochromatic satin, 3D texture, classic motif and diverse crafts. All the data and materials come from fashion weeks in Milan, Paris, London, New York and Copenhagen.

This report digs into the lace fabrics of S/S 2023 women’s runway shows in Milan, Paris, London and New York. We can see from the evolution that classical sophistication(37%) and soft see-through lace(29%) are the main styles. Christian Dior nods to the medieval fashion and offers its luxury and sophisticated lace. The 3D flowers(24%) on lace are also noteworthy in this season. The post-finish embellishments(11%) also reveal a rising trend. Chanel is a representative brand that combines lace with luxury crystals and rhinestones.

According to the data analysis of the three finished fashion weeks(in Milan, Paris and London), high-density cotton(16.1%) and technical cotton blend(14%) are trending upward. The runway shows of Hermes, FENDI and MSGM display rich and innovative fabric techniques. Recognizable textures(jacquard, twill, etc.) share 4.3%. The proportion of crepes increases up to 3.7%. Double-sided fabrics(1.3%) also show a comeback.

POP Fashion discovers accessories from Spring/Summer 2023 runway shows in Paris, Milan and London. We can see retro fashion, modern casual and futuristic sporty trend in buttons, zippers and accessories. Buttons and zippers maintain the connecting function and develop the ornamental quality. Metallic chains and ornamental buttons are not the exclusive elements for athleisure anymore. The mixes with men’s businesswear show great visual conflict.