Naive and naughty kids create a contrastive but funny visual feeling in the retro space through their sweet and arch images. Graceful scenes and lively colors make the series fantastic, and the historical arrangement and props inject a delicate retro sense into the scene.

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.

In S/S 2022, healthy social lives and economy enters in a new diversified normality. People use Bionic Art to recreate the connection with nature; people use virtual and digital technology to upgrade the emotional futuristic resonance of The Sixth Sense; the Sweet Mix style reshapes the individualized expression of Gender Fluidity; the natural-balanced delicate style updates the Summer Ocean; Copy&Paste redefines the fashion timeline; the delicate Unusual Sensuality; the national consciousness of Local East Asia; new aesthetic Cottagecore Rural. These are the Top10 key words of theme trend, which present the most noteworthy direction of this season and predict the theme trend of the coming season. This report distills some theme style key words, and expands the theme trend. POP will keep updating the key words report to make quick response and grasp the key points of trend.

Under the theme background of establishing positive Mental Model, Sunlit City describes the optimistic mental condition of urban people. Power of Insensitivity helps people recover from failures and wounds. The Self Awakening sends out Soft Power, which make people adapt occasions and characters quickly. The Doubly Circular Economy keeps us in the Optimistic New Normal and a positive system. This theme uses relaxing New Scandi to underline the importance of Refined Upgrade. And Power Suit is more and more popular among commuting clothes. Cross-border items present people's dressing demand of occasion switching.

Strange Twinning interprets strangers with different cultures and living environments understand and resonate each other. Globalization connects people with mixed identities, different backgrounds, status and cultures, and they establish a sense of identity through preferences, experiences, appearances. And we call it a hybrid age. The cultural shock brings a crisis of hybrid identity to the younger generation. They are busy with virtual social networks with an identity of private-sphere uploader, express a "natural vagrancy" attitude, pay for their hobbies and ideas, and become the major consumer group of coterie economy. Big data allows them to meet their doppelgangers, connects them who have different subcultures and aesthetics, and forms various interpersonal cultures. They are imaginative and creative. They privately customize their own styles such as "fair-skinned, young and slim" or "sweet, beautiful and quirky", break boundaries between interpersonal cultures through content socialization and inversely influences the mainstream.

With the development of digital technology, seeing and hearing will be digitized, and touch and smell will also be digitized. Immersive digital technology is gradually filtering the reality, and reality and social intercourse are increasingly tied up with virtuality. Gen Z enjoys immersing themselves in a virtual audiovisual world, releasing their emotions and making their voices heard. We behind the filter also feel empathetic and express our thoughts via futuristic mixed styling. At present, the filter reality has been extended as boundaries between people and things in different fields or attributes, and boundary between garments and crafts is also gradually blurred. Brand-new trans-boundary designs can be tried to bring a more avant-garde street style.

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.

S/S 2022 Theme Forecast