In the age of post-traumatic stress design, home becomes a refuge from the modern world. Intimate interactive space and cozy interior aesthetics present the connection between clothing and human, delivering a long confession. The quiet home of British artist Alessandra Taccia reflects family intimacy. The relationship between man and home is positive for existentialists. Practical household fashion emphasizes a soothing, simple and mindful life.

With the development and improvement of technologies and human cognition, the young generation in the future will be gradually moving away from the traditional rural life and moving towards a more delicate, orderly, comfortable and intelligent lifestyle and spiritual pursuit. They are willing to co-exist with nature, more aware of environmental protection, and able to build their own artistic aesthetics and perfectly fuse it with nature. Therefore, key colors derived from 2022 palette pair with eco-friendly cotton and linen fabrics to present a fashion feast.

Trendy colors are closely related to the social background. In this post-coronavirus era, we need optimistic and healing colors. Unlike conventional back, white, grey and brown neutrals, new neutrals retain features of neutrals but mix with chromatic tones in lowered saturation and brightness. Pastel colors in low saturation under the theme of Inner World as well as natural creamy and camel tones are all organic and healthy, calm and healing.

As people pay more attention to environmental protection and sustainability, natural, eco-friendly and comfortable infants' wear will gain more attention. Sustainable fabrics, natural undyed fibers, eco-friendly linen and organic cotton will be key fabrics for infants' wear in S/S 2022. Muted colors pair with original textures, pastoral checks, British cutwork embroidery and floral fabrics to create time-tested infants' items.

At present, consumers pursue a quality life, and they focus more on daily details. The entire visual effect and refined shoulder details will also become key trends in future appeal design. Shoulder details smartly blend decorativeness and structural sense of spliced panels. 3D ruffles and feather splicing make a flowing visual impact. Banana elements fully display female confidence and accentuate female graceful form.

At present, we are faced with both economic and climate challenges. Utility, comfort and versatility become the top priority of clothes. Catering to people's high demand for life quality, the leisure resort style keeps prevailing. The power of design boosts our mind, emotion and body. Mood-boosting colors and textures renew men's leisure shirts, rhythmic stripes, seersucker textures and dazzling checks in S/S 2022, displaying the colorful style and individuality.

In the post-coronavirus era, all industries are trying to make breakthroughs. On one hand, the market tends to be conservative. Excessive volume and dramatic silhouettes gradually become subdued and moderate. People's attention will shift from above-the-keyboard dressing to the luxurious dressing of the lower half of the body. On the other hand, consumers rely more on digital and virtual technologies, silhouettes take on abstract proportion and 3D space structures. 3D cutting improves the silhouette more than flat cutting. This report will take silhouettes as the core to extract key words for S/S 2022 womenswear silhouettes. The series of reports about S/S 2022 key words will continue.

Telecommuting will be normal and our lifestyle will continue changing, which leads to the change of dressing. Tranquil, simple and comfy designs will be the mainstream. Light blue, denim blue and neutrals emphasize the comfortable feel. Truck jackets and core jeans become key items. Responsibly designed fabrics and washes cater to sustainability. Innovative materials, durable and sustainable designs make products more valuable, which is a future need worth attention. Soft denim creates elegant silhouettes fit for both home and street, displaying the everyday dressing aesthetics.

The pandemic and social distancing greatly change our lifestyle and also inspire people's longing for the outdoors and nature, so relaxing trips or outings become popular. Besides, people want to minimize their effect on the environment. Romantic outdoor adventure and outside picnics bring new inspiration for new femininity. Influenced by that, plain natural cotton and linen, leisure wide-spaced pinstriped fabric, lightweight casual striped fabric and resort check fabric appeal to consumers because these fabrics can easily create a natural, casual and cosy vibe. Moreover, they bring infinite vitality for S/S 2021 cotton & linen style.

According to data, middle class in Asia will grow from 600 million to 1.3 billion, and the middle class is the main consumer group of luxury goods. Asian office ladies become a focus. As an important item, trousers employ the high-quality fabric and present many details. Blocking design on the waist, fine strips and high slit on leg openings, these simple yet ingenious designs reflect female fashion taste.

Influenced by dematerialization, people shift their focus to the society and environment protection. Consumers will give priority to eco-friendly and dematerialized goods, so natural and comfortable womenswear will gain more attention. Designers and brands explore the use of simplified and eco-friendly techniques to reduce the pollution and the waste of resources. Natural undyed fibers, antibacterial China-hemp fabrics, eco-friendly linen and other natural textiles meet consumers' demand for sustainable fashion and contribute to environment protection.

According to the latest fashion data, exaggerated sleeves in 2020 markets continue to S/S 2021, and designers will pay more attention to dramatic details. Therefore, from mimicking the shape of objects to exaggerated cuffs, shape and details of sleeves will become new craft details. Virago sleeves, starfruit sleeves, lantern sleeves and placement drawstring design all display the unique item.

Colorful designs include not only deconstruction. Handicrafts can show the delicacy better. Embroidery brings additional value for the product, and is one of the means for designers to enrich the style. Innovation of embroidery is a new trend of pattern craft. 2.5D embroidery, knitwear-like embroidery, loop stitch are all new directions of embroidery.

Social unrest drives the change of consumers' habits and hobbies, while necessity consumption contributes to the continuous popularity of simple and durable products. Currently, the laissez-faire of liberalism is replaced by the refined restraint, which leads to the change of design direction under this theme. Influenced by this pandemic, "less is more" has been a must, and modular durable design will attract restrained consumers. The home will become a self-healing haven for existentialists, and bring a positive, optimistic, time-rich lifestyle. 60% of the world's population will stay at home from January and April 2020. Under stay-at-home economy, consumption and aesthetics will grow a lot, and artists balance the secure emotion with the beauty of simplicity and purity. The concept of trans-seasonal consumption of simple necessities has become a basic appeal, which is conducive to creating a lasting and considerate brand.

Females want to display their leg lines and pursue simple and powerful charm, which gives rise to commute looks in the new season. As a necessary item, jeans perfectly display femininity. Denim shorts, ankle-length jeans and floor-length jeans focus on the waisted effect. Silhouette is adjusted to well modify legs.

A/W 21/22 Theme Forecast

According to the latest online retailing information of mega brands, in A/W 21/22, the switch between leisure and office is a mainstream design direction. The OL style trousers and casual trousers are combined or mix & match, catering to consumers' pursuit of leisure and comfort. Especially the tailoring style combing long trousers with suit pants is a key recommendation.

The return of the 1970s Bohemian style drives the popularity of the lifestyle which is close to nature. Exploring the folkloric style is the theme of high summer. Catering to Holiday of BoBos, sustainable development is the necessary condition of fabric choice. Organic plant fabrics like linen, hemp fibers and organic cotton become the focus of environmentally-friendly fabrics.

"BoBos" is the mix of bourgeois quality and Bohemian style. With the popularity of urban resort, the lifestyle pursuing freedom and close to nature also prevails. BoBos start the discovery tour of holiday, blend bourgeois qualities with Bohemian free will and art vibe and bring perfect holidays to S/S 2021. The resort way close to nature allows people to immerse in the good times. This is a brand-new spring and summer resort theme for men.

Landscape Protection is one of theme color trends for A/W 20/21 released by POP in 2019, which focuses on natural ecology. The nature provides an organic and comfortable palette. And inspired by nature lovers, architects and philosophers, bamboo and deep lichen green are key colors. The peaceful and natural palette allows people to escape from short-term pressure through observation and reflection. Environmentally-friendly grey, peat, beet red and natural light khaki are integrated to be more eco-friendly and create a comfortable tranquil beauty.

Smocking originated in the UK and was popular in the 1970s. It was widely applied to clothing, accessory and home decoration at that time. With the popularity of Belle Époque, smoking becomes an important craft for S/S 2021 womenswear. Smocking is quite functional. It can be applied to collar, waist and sleeves, well modifying the form. And it can also highlight the new Victorian style through the contrast of voluminous feel. Topstitch is also used, which will be a new feature. Refining smocking effects will inject more inspirations into the style.