Texture, tactility, comfort and fashion are the key points of sportswear this new season. Based on the comfortable feeling, lightweight texture and fashionable style is the essential developing point of blazers. Preppy and functional style outerwear has great changes in this season, mainly on functional pockets, bold shirring and heterogeneous splicing. Enlarged hem silhouette is applied on classic sports cardigan. And the application of asymmetric placket presents chic. The selection, surface and position of new patterns are also the considerable points.

Pattern craft is always one of the most important elements for clothes design. Since fashionable leisure styles are pursuing more chic pattern crafts, the pattern crafts have been enriched and combined. Thus, the combined pattern crafts which improve the classic craft start getting in our vision. The overlapped pattern crafts make portrait patterns have more tension and layers. And different combinations can also enrich the color possibilities. The advanced beads and diamond and unconventional tassel design are the key points this season.

The key developing point of jackets this season is classic revolution and maintained practicality. There have been bigger changes on the collar of classic preppy style baseball jacket. Large volume and placement deconstructed details are applied on classic pilot jacket to show chic. Practical multi-pocket jacket, windproof hooded loose jacket and narrow-collar loose jacket which tightens hem and cuffs are still under development this season. The placement details pursue high quality and practicality, and the whole presents practical leisure style.

The fashionable and thermal polar fleece will keep influencing the whole fashion industry. It can present diversified styles through different items and provide stylish dressing collocations to the young male consumers. The following collocations are depending on different scenes, and each one has a high utilization rate.

The design technique becomes more fashionable and diversified in early autumn 2022, and heterogeneous splicing craft presents a more delicate and individualized effect. Soft and skin-friendly linter and bionic flush fabrics have better thermal function, and combining with waterproof lustrous fabrics can show a rich textural contrast effect. Larger-scale reflective coating with avant-garde athletic silhouette provide urban night runners with protection and chic. The combination of stiff knit cloth and fashion sports jacket silhouette is delicate and individualized. Eco-friendly in-stock calico and quilted fabric are showing the new sports fashion of early autumn 2022.

With the social economic development and rising feminine influence, women are having a stronger desire for high-quality clothes. Thus, the crafts with delicate keynote become more exquisite. The application of handcrafted lockstitch, edging, black-white stitch, laser hollow-out and placement pockets on clothes designs can rebuild the classics and demonstrate the elegance of new women.

Polar fleece must be the most popular outerwear this winter. People throughout the world are wearing it, and it is also once named as the top 100 influential inventions in the twentieth century by Time. Its outstanding thermal property and high cost-efficiency make it also known as "The fur for the poor". Since the polar fleece is such popular, let's take a look at the silhouette trend for polar fleece.

People are longing for escaping from the urban pressure and going for a distant journey to find back the integration of youth and nature. Embracing nature and bathing in the leisurely outdoor times, people and nature are reconnected. With the developing science and technology, outdoor functional protective fabrics are carrying people's pursuit of embracing nature and challenging themselves. And the improved overall performance better fits body's functions. The era of Outdoor Plus has come. Therefore, this report follows the sustainable design concept and satisfies consumers' dressing requirement through recommending high-quality functional and practical fabrics.

Comfort and wear resistance are still the most important elements in S/S 2022 menswear after the epidemic. For outerwear and trench coats this season, applying minimalist styles, warm and healing colors, plain and durable textures is the key to satisfy people's physic and mental dressing demand. Thus, this report will present the important cotton fabric trend for S/S 2022 menswear through introducing lightweight organic cotton, triple-proof double-faced twill and RT draped fabric.

Short style outerwear was deeply loved by urban women in S/S 2021. And the S/S 2022 outerwear is even shorter, and the shoulder silhouette is also looser and broader. The proper right-angle shoulders and extreme waisted effect better underline women's body curves.

With the new trending practical style, consumers are wearing denim items more and more often. New standards of elasticity and performance higher people's expectation toward denim items, especially jeans. S/S 2022 functional fabrics is the key trend to improve the comfort and update the style of daily denim clothing. Thus, this report introduces fabrics like cotton eco-friendly denim, elastic blended denim and high-performance denim which can create the expected women's denim item of S/S 2022.

With the trending pragmatism, consumers' demand is changing from fashion styles to practical and versatile items, pursuing multiple functional and occasional products. And the advanced blurred border between casual style and western style and weakened functionality is among clothes. The fitness of various occasions is also essential in the design process. The balance between work and daily life is shown in more and more clothes.

Fashionable and individualized dressing experience fits modern clothing concept more. Cutting in from details to break the monotony of clothes can enhance the artistic feeling and provide a small surprise. Inspiration endows clothes with more imaginative ideals. The back design is easily neglected, but it can present a back-to-front misconception. And more and more designers start to pay attention to the neck. Their unique ideals and recreation bring aesthetic and individualized expression to the clothes.

Practical and visual diversified leather and fur garment concept is popular among consumers because it can meet the needs of daily society and multi-occasion transition under this diversified era. Leather and fur overcoat items are reformed into more practical regroup items. The exaggerate detachable design, mock-layered outerwear, heterogeneous overlapping and front part overcoats present a practical layered sense. The elegant urban items with design sense bring new styles to daily lives.

With people's enthusiasm for the wilderness and nature and the revive of the world, people are looking for a sense of safety from nature and outdoors. Therefore, protective, functional and technical fabrics fit for both urban commute and outdoors will be more popular with consumers. This report mainly analyzes technical matte fabric, bio-based fleece and space-like graphene fabric, as well as their applications on menswear and womenswear, thus reflecting the key trend of functional and sustainable fabrics in A/W 21/22.

Function and stretch are crucial requirements for men's denim, as consumers are expecting more from denim garments and fabrics. Therefore, functional denim becomes a key trend for A/W 21/22, thanks to its warmth, protection and technical functions. This report mainly introduces Volcanic denim, degradable stretchy denim, and water-proof, oil-proof and antifouling organic denim, thus bringing comfortable, practical and functional denim fabrics and appealing to more avant-garde consumers.

We are always looking forward to the future or the unknown world. The visual culture born in millennium precisely satisfies people's fantasy of the future world. Subcultures gradually come into the spotlight and affect the mainstream. Emerging street fashion and immersive technologies blend future technology and subculture with street fashion brands, interpreting the unruly individuality of Gen Z. In the digital age of information explosion, the Internet has become the main way for us to socialize. With the development of digital technology, seeing and hearing are digitized, and touch and smell will also be digitized. The reality will be gradually filtered by immersive digital technologies. This report mainly analyzes eco-friendly and renewable Econyl fabric, antibacterial and protective graphene fabric, and natural waterproof Ventile cotton fabric. Their applications to S/S 2022 men's and women's outerwear update street fashion outerwear of Gen Z and give a comfortable and practical wearing experience.

Close-to-nature trend and suburb trip change the way of traveling and inspire the longing for cottagecore style. In this era of new normal, we hope to find a peaceful pure land, and the isolated island life provides a way for us to relax and heal ourselves. A balanced and natural life attitude contributes to a plain and casual trend, expresses our spirit of paradise and promotes the new aesthetics inspired by crafts, nature and classic elements. Optimistic aborigines are all in awe of local resources, and the self-sufficient internal recycle drives the explosive growth of paradise resort and brings simple new neutrals. Brands support handcraft communities to renew coastline designs. New normal dressing of paradise spirit creates a soft resort business style and a plain feminine casual style, nourishing natural and peaceful designs.

Individuality is the mainstream of this era, so many creative and artistic products become the focus. People pay more attention to things that stimulate emotions and express thoughts. Artistic lacquer spraying graffiti directly expresses inner voice, colorful and passionate. This technique retains the uniqueness and liveliness of handicrafts and becomes a key pattern craft in A/W 21/22. It is also used by Off-White and Christopher Kane. Alexander McQueen created a lacquer-sprayed dress on its S/S 1999 catwalk. Raf Simons once launched a lacquer spraying collection in A/W 2012 haute couture.

As a result of unstable climate and economic depression, urban dwellers change their view in styling. In S/S 2022, people prefer to wear one garment in multiple ways. They desire for comfortable sports items to deal with the changeable weather. Details of outdoor sportswear mix with urban commute clothing. Multi-occasional minimal styling is the core, and its practicality exactly coincides with sustainable development.

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.