The swanky youth of new era are growing up in this global information explosion environment. And the cultural conflicts between East and West promote the development of various community cultures. They use the fearless attitude of extreme youth to present the classic charm of street culture. Art forms like graffiti, skateboarding and rap are just like their mother tongue and become the manifestos of self-expression. Swanky youth use their fashion fetish to demonstrate the endless possibilities of wild growing and break the gender border to create a new scene of gender fluidity. The swanky youth are exploring themselves and sending out the wild power of new generation.

For S/S 2022 women's knitted garments, it is a key point that fashion moves toward elevated simplicity. Exquisite details become the top priority. Brand-new functions and fabrics create elevated yet basic styles, and functionality and protection underline an elevated feel. For core knits, organic fabrics and eco-friendly fabrics are worth investment, and low-impact natural dyestuff is used. Therefore, this report focuses on polylactic acid fiber fabric, Sorona® fabric and one-sided three-yarn loop fabric.

The diversification of pattern, fabric, silhouette and craft leads to the diversity of A/W 21/22 sweatshirts. Led by the delicate pattern crafts this season, sweatshirts present a sense of chic and creativity. Elegant and interesting embroideries, large-scale prints, statement-making zebra stripes all-over prints, along with cool shadowing effects and laser prints, bring more highlights of the sweatshirt patterns. Worn-out crafted printed appliques, fun plushed appliques and DIY velcro allow the sweatshirt style show more diversities and creativity.

Clothing patterns are diversified. Applique adds layers and details to garments with its lavish designs and changeable patterns or texts. Applique is flexible, so it can be merged with various crafts. Normally, a pattern is printed over the fabric, and then the fabric is sewn onto garments, thus making a 3D and layered visual effect. Leather applique is also presented this season. It is a key craft to use deadstock or surplus printed fabrics as patterned applique. Woven labels can also be used as applique, singly or multiply. Or embroidery is combined for a multi-layered effect.

With the rise of fashionable artistic cultures, Gen Z consumers drive the interpersonal culture to gradually come into the public and become a heated fashion topic. T-shirts and knitted sweatshirts have been necessary for fashionistas and mega brands. This report centers on S/S 2022 knitted fabrics, including worsted light mercerized cotton, comfortable cotton, PU dust-free sweatshirts, modal stretchy comfortable cotton. They shine brightly with the combination of a new street fashion perspective and sustainability.

In S/S 2022, men's knitwear advocates simple, practical and multi-scene designs. Influenced by that, patterns tend to be simple placement decorations. This report finely selects embroidery crafts of men's knitwear, and makes a key analysis of light business style. Fine machine-embroidery adds delicacy, while its combination with jacquard shows more possibilities. Fine beaded embroidery is low-key yet luxurious. Chain embroidery and crafted embroidery present plain handcrafted textures.

As a perennial item in wardrobes, sweatshirts have been indispensable. Voluminous sweatshirts mix with trendy elements and novel designs, dramatic elongated design and decorative patterns to be more fashionable. Classic hooded zip-up sweatshirts show more designs this season. Raglan sleeves and the hooded silhouette pair with prints, accessories and other details to be more fashionable. Classic hooded sweatshirts are also non-negligible. Neat stand-collar pull-on sweatshirts also play a key role in silhouettes, with loose shape or color-blocking.

With the prevalence of sustainable designs, home themes and "less but better" minimalism, versatile and comfortable sweatshirts will be a key item and pair with edgy and chic items. Lavish styling is key this season.

Bright and joyful Cream Gold dominates A/W 21/22. Malachite Green, which symbolizes the economic city and transportation in the future, is the basic color and combined with Ginger and Nine Iron to depict an eco-friendly and dynamic urban image. The progress of science and technology and people's attention to the environment will change the way of travel. People long for a more eco-friendly city. Therefore, public or green vehicles will be more prevalent, and electric skateboard and bikes will be common personal vehicles.

Although our lives have been squeezed into tiny electronic screens, the need for fashion and comfort has been amplified by the Internet. Fashion clothes are not confined to haute couture, and mega brands one after another create loose sweatshirts from lounge to office. Comfortable sweatshirts get upgraded to fit both sofa and streets, emphasizing the combination of home space and fashion arts. Loose, elongated and cropped sweatshirts will be key silhouette trends for A/W 21/22 women's sweatshirts.

People are more yearning for a digital future, and try to express their emotions with brights, especially the energetic and optimistic young generation. Futuristic digital light effect prompts the attention to pleasing and positive tones. Therefore, digital brights will widely prevail in fashion fields. Optimistic, aggressive and upward colors will underpin S/S 2022 knitted fabrics.

Due to this pandemic, home style gets increasingly popular. Comfortable sweatshirts shift to be items fit for both lounge and streets. Soft loopback jersey, airy sweatshirt fabric and marl knitted fabric are key fabrics with a light gram weight, suitable for minimal comfortable sweatshirts. Soft and comfy knitted fabrics will be a key trend for A/W 21/22 women's sweatshirts.

With the prevalence of Internet, the culture in a certain circle becomes a heated topic. A group of young fearless generation advocates expressionism and tries to extend their individuality via surreal modern edgy street looks. Eco-friendly cotton, striped fabrics in new neutrals, cutout knitted fabrics and tie-dyed knitted fabrics renew men's knitted fabrics of fashion brands in S/S 2020 via their brand-new street fashion visual effect and comfy hand feel.

Sweatshirts gain popularity with their comfort and versatility. In A/W 21/22, kids' sweatshirts employ rich materials, crafts and silhouettes, such as spliced materials (which emphasizes the combination of silhouettes and materials) and folk hand-weaving crafts, novel and chic. Different from ribs, necklines are key to this season. Fun collage patterns add highlights to sweatshirts. Bowknots make sweatshirts shift from athleisure style to sweet fashion.

Comfy minimalist designs and the gentle style underpin the clothing collocation for women's knitwear and overcoats in A/W 21/22. Lightweight undershirts, pullovers with extra long sleeves and knitted sweatshirts complement overcoats. Match of different items, quality contrast between knitwear and overcoats, color proportion and harmonious silhouettes gain more and more attention. High-quality and rhythmic styling displays classicism and nostalgic new femininity and presents the passion, fortitude and valiance of modern females.

In the post-coronavirus era, people hope to establish a close relationship with nature. Knitted fabrics work well for both men and women, and go across the whole year. In S/S 2022, designers try to extract trendy colors and natural, harmless dyestuff from nature for pile knit, jersey and stretchable mesh fabric, so as to meet consumers' interest in nature.

Sweatshirts are necessary for street fashion. With changes on fashion and consumption way, young consumers prefer avant-garde fashion brands to casual brands. Hip-length hooded sweatshirts are gender-neutral. Deconstructed silhouettes bring more designs. Round-neck sweatshirts splice with different materials, bringing visual and tactile changes. The loose silhouette remains the mainstream and blends with many trendy patterns and novel crafts.

The internet greatly affects the consumption way of Gen Z, and subcultures like music and street events also influence their clothing. Individuality and self-expression stand out. Fashion bloggers such as Connorxel and Dominic Grizzelle grow with the internet. They love street events and fashion meetings, favor bright color contrast and retro styling, and create elevated street looks.

In this unstable world, fear becomes a new normal. Everyday we are surrounded by anxious and disturbing information about pandemic, death, economic shutdown, environmental crisis, which unwittingly promotes the spread of fear around the world. Menswear fashion brands take cues from horror movies, horror games and even the Gothic culture, so gloomy, Gothic and horror fabrics stand out and become key words for A/W 21/22 menswear of fashion brands.

Sweatshirts are comfortable and versatile. In S/S 2021, sweatshirts are dominated by a loose silhouette, and combined with popular elements and creative designs. Voluminous sweatshirts employ exaggerated lengthened placement and pattern decoration for a stronger street vibe. Loose crew-neck sweatshirts show newness via pattern designs. Hooded sweatshirts continue tie-dye, and pursue innovative and eco-friendly design techniques and crafts. The cardigan style returns back. A zipper endows the sweatshirt with a blocking sense and enriches the silhouette.

Combined crafts become the main trend of pattern craft for knitwear. Basic stitch and jacquard in knitwear are combined with embroidery, print, bead and applique to enrich pattern expression techniques and create a refined pattern effect, thus highlighting the space contrast between virtuality and reality, or thickness and thinness. With the popularity of minimalism, simple crafts dealing with same colors and same materials are also non-negligible.