The new generation swanky youth are growing under the background of global information explosion. The culture difference between western and eastern stimulates the rapid development of distinct community cultures. The fearless attitude of extreme youth presents the classic charm of street culture. The vintage school badges are combined with the fashionable street style. Patterns with intense visual effects are presented through graffiti and posters. CITY POP and sub-culture collage becomes the self-declaration.

This "hybrid age" connects people with mixed identities, different backgrounds, status and cultures. The young generation look at the world through their immature ethereal dream, and meet another unique themselves. Although they are strangers, they have connected spirits. Isolated from the public aesthetics, they are making selections between sub-culture and mainstream. Their anxiety of "mixed identity recognition" and expectation of being approved by the mainstream cause the experiences including anxiety and hope, pain and joy. The theme Strange Twinning applies handcrafted decorations and reuses wasted synthetic materials to underline the "sweet, beautiful and quirky" style through mix&match. Thus, this report takes sweet stretchy lace fabric, colorful handmade blend fabric, girly sheeny chemical fiber fabric and ethereal sheer fabric as the main point, inversely influencing the mainstream by their interpersonal cultures through content socialization and private domain customization.

Heart elements are used widely in the pattern designs of S/S 2022. Single heart-shape, psychedelic heart-shape, weird heart-shape, mixed heart-shape, dark heart-shape, artistic 3D heart-shape and some heart-shaped art paintings. The multiple techniques enrich the pattern design and make it more convenient for designers to apply on collection.

People are searching for a peaceful land, and island is a place isolated from the continent and is a peaceful normality in the journey. Influenced by the revive natural living, abstract seaside scenery and casual hand-draw bionic patterns create a gentle vacation style. Self-sufficient islanders perfectly fit the natural plant patterns and create the delicate and plain beach style, increasing the original tonality of the whole theme.

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 suburb trip changes 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. Natural cotton and linen textiles are made of handicraft and farming, and the classic practical work clothes has evolved into more comfortable styles. The sea breeze and green plants of the island evoke romantic aesthetic colors.

S/S 2022 determined to be full of uncertainty, just like the recurrence and mutant of epidemic in the early 2021. The young consumers are immersed in the virtual world to release emotion and filter the reality. And these all aspects will rebuild our designs and street textures. The rapid development of digital science technology and the color feeling of fantastic soft focus will reveal the endless possibilities of men's street fabrics under the theme Filter Reality. From virtual video games to digital science technology, Gen-Z is continuously searching for new ways of catharsis, and this is also a key concept of this theme fabric trend. The brand new designs and high-tech innovative textures bring stronger avant-garde street feeling to futuristic menswear brands.

The theme Sunlit City is describing the optimistic attitude of urban people and guiding people to consume and think in a positive and rational way. The S/S 2022 focuses on people's inner real requirements and builds a positive mental model which pays attention to sensory experiences, becoming the key emotion trend. In this new season, comfortable natural materials or synthetic fibers are used to replace the highly-cost textures. For example, comfortable blended suiting, luxurious jersey fabric, lustrous duchess satin and subtle cotton blended fabric with minimalist designs and comfortable practical silhouettes can create multi-occasion commuting sets, dresses and tops, bringing a cross-season dressing experience to consumers.

When the warm wind of S/S blows all over the coast, the children begin their happiest holiday life of the year. Those free loose clothes is deeply loved by kids during the island living. The skin-friendly cotton-linen textiles perfectly fit the natural life of sea, sunlight and beach.

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.

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.

S/S 2022 Theme Forecast