As a flexible design element, stripe has always been an essential part in daily life. It creates multicolored and rich products in various fields such as graphic design, home decoration and fashion industry. As one of the most vigorous element in the fashion industry, striped items appear in every season. They are seemingly unchanged but surprising indeed.

Patterns express theme concepts and deliver the brand's style, quite essential. They need to have a strong expressive force and follow current trends and heated topics. They show profound meanings in the fusion and balance between clothing style and individuality. In the post-coronavirus era, surrealism, healing colors and retro vines comfort restless emotions. Since African artists have collaborated with mega brands, African culture has been valued. Nowadays, trans-boundary collaboration collections remain popular. Illusive soft focus is worth key attention. Too cool aesthetics lead us to explore more possibilities. The series of reports about S/S 2022 key words will continue.

Political turmoil, economic instability, and this sudden pandemic magnify people's panic about the future. In this digital age, panic spreads globally. A group of fearless youngsters advocates expressionism, and extends their individuality through surreal, dark, edgy street looks. Dark fashion presents people's anxiety and fear in the most direct way, thus horror aesthetics rises in the fashion industry.

In A/W 21/22, trousers will be more flexible, versatile and creative. With changes of fashion and consumption ways, street fashion prevails because it helps to extend individuality and express attitude. It is a key trend to fuse cool designs with soft fabrics for comfortable street fashion trousers. Workwear trousers play a key role this season. Adjustable gathered-ankle trousers, tapered trousers and mock-layer designs are also irreplaceable in A/W 21/22.

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.

As the society changes, consumers have diversified needs, which is reflected by clothing patterns. This kind of visual element covers or combines striking letter patterns, camouflage, floral elements, embroidery and applique.

Fabrics are key to clothes. Designers normally redesign fabrics to add special textures, and embroidery is a good way, such as applique, cutout embroidery, beaded embroidery, 3D embroidery, classic embroidery, heavy-duty embroidery and so on. In A/W 21/22, embroidered patterns are combined with beads, sequins and 3D flowers, giving different textures.

Due to the pandemic, urban life gets dull. But youngsters are still fearless and shuttle between fashion gatherings. They keep passionate hope and promote the vitality of the city. In the post-coronavirus era, fabrics in the new season are both funky and protective.

In A/W 20/21, Coach launches its collaborative series with Jean Michel Basquiat, a late American graffiti artist. Coach focuses on the intense multicultural atmosphere in his works and uses graffiti works in clothes and bags. Dynamic and bright colors are retained, and the rebellious style is underlined. Jean Michel Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960, in Brooklyn, New York. He was first known as a graffiti artist in the late 1970s and later became a successful neo-expressionist artist in the 1980s. Filled with angry and mad images, his works are a mixture of chaos, even barbarism and superb skills. His works almost affect the whole fashion industry, such as Uniqlo, Off-White and so on. And he is universally acknowledged by the art circle as one of the most important artists of the 20th century.

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.

2022 faces new challenges of wellness and economy. Resources waste, people's focus on wellness, and the attention to handicrafts drive industries to innovate. The textile industry is no exception. For the masses, we find home life prompts thrift, so that designers begin to focus on redesigning waste fabrics. As a result of handicrafts and decoration trend, rugged relief and natural weaving textures become key fabric trends. In the post-coronavirus era, protection will be a key standard for fabrics. Healing copper, silver and other metal fibers give S/S fabrics a new function and appearance. In addition, ice dyeing rises and renews previous tie-dye, so fabrics develop towards a natural, eco-friendly and harmonious direction. This report will center on fabrics to conclude keywords for S/S 2020 fabric trend in terms of fibers, functions, crafts, colors and texture changes. The series of reports about S/S 2022 key words will continue.

Emerging creative techniques continue traditional denim crafts and display denim charm via diverse crafts and layering technique. Patterns are also presented in appropriate and convenient ways. Logo labels and deadstock intarsia carry out sustainability. Washing effects on denim form more characteristic patterns.

Butterfly elements prevail in the whole fashion industry, such as magazines, jewellery, makeup, accessories and filters. Many brands adopt butterfly elements in various ways, and menswear mainly mixes butterfly elements with letters.

Fun letters are indispensable for womenswear. Logos promote the brand. Graffiti, figure illustrations and chic letters pair with bold colors to inject a fun and chic feel into regular styles. Clothing materials are diversified. Leather, fur and polar fleece make items diversified and cater to street fashion style.

2020 sees ups and downs, so in A/W 21/22, people's lifestyle will be changed greatly. The development of science and technology influences consumers' way of commuting and living, and more and more people shift their focus on jogging, cycling, climbing and skateboarding. Therefore, clothes should be breathable, protective, durable and easy to care. And blended, protective and new polyester fabrics become trends for the new urban life.

In this era when everything is changing, more and more traditional modes are challenged, and many industries realize their disadvantages and try to find their own way. Therefore, we abandon the transient mode that flows with the crowd, and underline the individualized, practical and mixed boundless mode, so as to inspire creativity. Clothing, as the reflection of reality, shows trends including long over long, short outer and long inner, clear layering, short top and long bottom, mix and match. The series of reports about S/S 2022 key words will continue.

Patterns add a sense of design, and pattern crafts underline the quality and charm of items. Different crafts use color changes and varied combos to bring visual contrasts, display exquisite details and make items more appealing.

Geometric color blocks have always been popular design elements. In terms of painting, the memory effect of chromatic colors are 3.5 times stronger than that of achromatic colors, which is the reason why chromatic colors are more attractive. As Da Vinci said, "If you want to make similar colors orderly and pleasing, pay attention to the order in which the sunlight is formed." Bright color blocks create a big color world which challenges our visual sensors. Color blocks are also statement-making in clothes.

In the post-coronavirus era, political turmoil and economic instability magnify people's panic about the future. Therefore, horror aesthetics rise in the fashion industry. Dark fashion presents people's anxiety and fear in the most direct way, and people fight against fear with fear.

From fashionistas, street snaps and brands such as Andersson Bell, Pushbutton and Open The Door, we can see trousers are key for styling. This year denim, suiting and casual fabrics are combined with high-waist trousers. And trousers become a key item for Pre-Fall 2021. Tops are tight and fitted, with high-waist trousers to well lengthen the figure.

Vagrancy is a dialogue between the spirit of self and the outside world. We wander to the end of the world, encounter wonderful scenes in the winter wilderness, appreciate the wild primitive landscape, and search for the eternal light on the horizon. We respect the laws of life and nature, escape from multifarious trifles and meaningless disputes, and feel the free new self in the essence. From roaming to sudden enlightenment, we feel the freedom and poetic spirit. Urbanites who yearns for natural wilderness step on the journey of life, and wander toward the end of the world. This offers infinite inspiration and creativity for A/W 21/22 outdoor menswear fabrics.