This report focuses on the on-trend Gorpcore style, and recommends hot brands, highlights and craft details to inspire the development of urban techwear and outdoorwear.

2022 Annual TOP Outdoor Activewear Brand

Cycling becomes a popular outdoor sport in recent years. Cycle lovers pursuit garments with performance and comfort as well as a fashion taste. This report recommends cyclewear brands as Cafe du Cycliste, Rapha, MAAP, The Pedla, assos and Universal Colours.

The Analysis of Beneunder The Benchmark Outdoor Sportswear Brand

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 functional woven fabrics' materials, performance and appearance.

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.

Based on the data analysis of the online stores of Burberry, Dior, Celine and Loewe, POP Fashion figures out the bar charts above. 100% cotton(51%) is the most important material for women’s trench coat in A/W 22/23. For the trenches of Burberry, silk and viscose fibers are also used. Twill(49%) is the the most popular fabric texture. All in all, the development of trench coat prefers lightweight textures and blends.

“We’ve been so confined that I really wanted to celebrate going back outside, feeling the wind, the heat, the sweat on your skin,” said Hermès’s Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski, who erected a sand dune in the Tennis Club de Paris to show her latest performance-wear focused collection.

This report offers graphic references for multiple industries. Balloons, Teletubbies, vinyl records, camouflage and thermal imaging will be the emerging trends.

ENSHADOWER was founded in 2012 by several FIXEDGEAR students who were originally interested in building a casual wear brand. Its original intention is to provide comfortable and functional clothing for street sports enthusiasts. The brand design style has obvious futurism, science and technology and functionality. Sports elements are also skillfully combined with fashion sense to fully show contemporary young people's interest, fashion and attitude towards life.

City Boy fashion is a mash-up of Japanese leisurewear and American streetwear, with aspects such as military uniforms, tooling, and even functionalities included to create a diverse look. The overall tone of the match is characterized by mixed and stacked wear. City boy is not just a style of dressing, but also a life concept.

Engineered Garments was founded by Daiki Suzuki in New York in 1999, after taking inspiration from his years buying for the Nepenthes stores in their early stages, and combining it with his own vision. As a brand, the aim is to make garments that become more personal through the experiences you have with them. They value unique garment construction with attention to detail, with meaning and hidden qualities behind each design. They venture into conflicting themes, straying from “perfect design”.

Japanese kidswear label Nunuforme launched its first collection in 2014 guided by two key words: "fashionable" and "casual". Introducing adult elements into kidswear design, its highly original patterns, high quality fabrics and unique cuts are incorporated for textured products that show personality.

Technical sport fabrics are presented frequently on S/S 2023 runway shows. Classic Smooth, Lustrous Nylon, Performance Filming and Textured Surface are the four fabric styles. The application of technical sport fabric is mainly focusing on jackets, down jackets and trousers.

Taking to Milan, the Caten duo Dean and Dan have showcased DSQUARED2’s vibrant Spring/Summer 2023 Menswear collection. Paying homage to the Bob Marley Foundation, the collection features everything from 70s-inspired outerwear to the symbolic use of colours in the Jamaican flag (yellow, black and green). In an additional collaboration with Honda motorcycles, Dsquared2 combine their Marley inspiration with two starkly contrasting personas; the relaxed surfer and the rambunctious biker. And while a junction between the musical legend and the motorcycle company may seem a little odd at first, there’s actually a deep-rooted vein that joins the two together in perfect harmony – the designers aimed to symbolise both the vibe and rebellion of Marley’s time, surf culture, and 1970s Jamaica.

Timberland creates innovative, outdoor-ready, beautiful-looking and durable products based on the principles of suitability for the outdoors and sustainability. Timberland's garments are made from high-quality organic cotton grown with natural fertilizers, so the products are close-fitting, comfortable, healthy and safe; its outdoor product line is specially designed for the needs of outdoor activities, and is manufactured with a large number of the most advanced materials and technologies, in order to provide customers with a variety of innovative and versatile apparel products.

Ecological Duty -- The Comprehensive Analysis of A/W 23/24 Première Vision Paris

The outdoor active fabrics on Digital Première Vision focus on the ecological protection from materials to post-finishing, such as the blending of organic cotton and synthetic fibers and the use of bio-sourced coating. Elasticity is another important factor for outdoor sports. Stretchy synthetic fibers and recyclable regenerated fibers expand the developing direction. Textured fabrics as peach-skin fabrics, cotton twill, sleek jacquard and rip-stop fabrics present innovative visual experiences.

Japanese fishing label Daiwa introduced DAIWA PIER39 in 2020 as its more fashion-forward branch under the direction of Shinsuke Nakada, who cut his teeth at BEAMS. Within two years, it's become on of Japan's hottest young brands. This lineup is crafted upon the concept of "building a bridge between the great outdoors and the city." With DAIWA PIER39 originally being a fishing brand, they have slowly made their way into the culture with their urban tactical wear. Designed for people who love the urban lifestyle.

Founded in 2009, Dimito is a leading skiwear label in South Korea that guides the fashion trend and design. Vertex Nextlevel, Standard Condition and Overlap are the three production lines.

Rains a Scandinavian label founded in 2012. Its collections blend a conceptual-meets-functional design approach, a strong urban inspiration, and a signature fabric identity. Rains brings its neo-Scandinavian aesthetic, unisex collections, and consistently surprising curation to consumers across four continents. Spring/Summer 2023 collection ‘Connect’ explores underground connection and the power in being seen and heard. Subcultural synthesis fueled by the universal conduit of music - the most powerful connector. The pulse that drives a composition of color and form - movement and expression.