With the rising interest in outdoor time, functional designs are used more to improve the value of fashionable sportswear. The linear design in A/W 22/23 uses functional reflective strap, delicate flat stitching, dynamic tassel, solid edging, ribbons, colored binding and printed lines to diversify the styling and layers of fashionable sportswear.

A/W 22/23 baseball hat pays attention to the outdoor life and the pursuit of comfort and individuality. Soft-touch fabric, warm texture, color blocking and individualized details enliven the baseball hat and find a balance between functionality and styling.

The new generation of swanky youth grows up with information explosion. Cultural difference promotes the boom of varied community cultures. Swanky youth are fearless and youthful to display the charm of street culture. Graffiti, skateboard and rap help to express themselves, like their mother tongue. 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.

The awareness of personal protection and outdoor exploration promotes the popularity of functional outdoor clothing. Protective and functional light jacket is transferred from the outdoor sports to the fashion domain. As the ideal item of outdoor life, light sport jacket selects weatherproof fabric and younger silhouette to present both practicality and comfort.

S/S 2022 sun-protective clothing pays more attention to the functionality, and also accentuates the individualized fashion. Casual set in earth colors, heterogeneous splicing, eco-friendly tie-dyed fabric, technological metal-coated fabric, and eye-catching color blocking upgrade the sun-protective clothing from multiple aspects.

Swimwear is no more a functional item. Its rich design elements and silhouette selections perfectly fit the diversified dressing styles of contemporary consumers. Athletic style, retro elegant style and various practical silhouettes have become the leading elements of swimwear this season.

In this modern urban lifestyle with faster pace, practical, comfortable and individualized streetwear is loved by more people. Meanwhile, long-restricted people are willing to escape from city and embrace the nature, which forms a commuting and outdoor high-street style. Practical pocket design, handmade dyeing, functional fabric, and heterogeneous splicing endow daily items with diverse practicality and futuristic fashion.

Splicing is the combination and collision of different materials, which is used widely on women's fur. We can discover the concept of splicing from both avant-garde brands and public brands. The splicing of diverse materials and fur has been developed a lot, and this plain and artistic design craft better fits the aesthetic and dressing requirements of modern people.

After the new normality, the world is expecting that everything will revive in the future. Fashion, as a presentation of life, has been a carrier for people's perception and expression. Innovated spirit of the time promotes the emergence of avant-garde knights who break the previous public persona and turn from a maverick to an independent thinker. They are responsible youths and flexible players, exploring self-evolution continuously.

Facing with the challenges of economy and climate, practicality, comfort and versatility have become the key factors of clothing. People's rising pursuit of life quality and the popularity of casual vacation style allow men to pay more attention to the cost-efficiency. Swimwear which is suitable for both beach and other occasions is emerging.

Parka is the most competitive category in A/W. And with the updating of consumers' requirements and beauty-appreciation, the design of parka details is also updated to endow better practicality and prettiness. Splicing craft provides contrastive visual effect. Detachable application brings more wearing possibilities. Label applique and drawstring design pay attention to the newness in details. 3D pocket and illustration applique enhance the fashionable feel.

As a practical, versatile and stylish item, sweatshirt pays attention to both fashion and functionality. Since the rise of Hip-Hop culture in the last 70s, comfortable and highly cost-efficient sweatshirt with slogan prints in placement has become an important fashion item. This craft report will put emphasis on the details of sweatshirt. Diverse hand dyeing, vintage poster, stuffed decoration and fluorescent lines are used to present the fashion property. Besides, drop-shoulder puff and shoulder accentuation are the eye-catching designs for girls' sweatshirt.

Facing the challenge of society, politics, environment and economy, consumers will gradually develop a habit of daily healing in 2022 and 2023. The technology development of engineering product, food and materials is under a trend of commercialization, calling for protecting natural resources and starting a supernatural future. And with the rise of health awareness, promoting mental and physical health and exploring hi-tech products have become the essential topics. At the same time, consumers are also paying attention to cost-saving and decreasing waste, which makes recyclable and durable products popular. The emergency of slow handicraft forces all the industries to break through the stereotype and provide innovation, including the fabric textile industry. The additional value of fabric is important in this season. Healing and delighted fibers bring new functions and wearing experience to men's and women's A/W fabrics, which leads the development of fabric to a natural, eco-friendly and future-tech trend direction. The report will summarize and refine the keywords of latest A/W 22/23 fabric from the aspects of fiber, function, craft technique and textural variation.

Consumers have realized the environmental influence brought by throwaway fashion, and the traditional swimsuit is not suitable for seaside and swimming pool. Thus, functionality is added into swimsuit to allow it to be worn in daily lives. The improved practicality redefines the function and value of swimsuit.

The architecture term Montage was firstly extended into the movie art, and it was later applied in the field of visual art. Nowadays, many artists will use the Montage technique during the artistic creation.

More and more people are paying attention to practical, recreational and leisurely multi-function items. S/S 2022 sweatshirt and shorts set, light shirt set, lightweight blazer, cargo vest, cuffed wide-leg trousers, pastel shacket and Bermuda shorts are the key boys' silhouettes.

Applique is an unexpected masterpiece born in helplessness. Poor people in the past used embroidery and patch to mend the broken clothes, and these delicate handcrafted works become the applique. As a decoration element, applique has been popular in the fashion world for long. And with the development of crafts, creative effects are accepted by more and more consumers, such as multiple badges, cutout, multidimensional, raw-edge, fringe and craft combination.

Denim is originated from the indigo fireman uniform in Edo Age of Japan. And this wear resistant and windproof denim was later loved by American cowboys and miners. With the popularity of this distinctive texture, denim outerwear has also been accepted. In the current fashion world, denim item appears in every season. Except for the most classic jacket silhouette, vest, trench coat, shirt and redesigned denim suit are all added into consumers' wardrobes. Denim is also a must-have element in the trendy sets recently.

Influenced by the practicalism, early autumn 2022 sportswear pays more attention to the fashionable sense and multi-occasional function. The sportswear items in the 2021 runways inspire the trendy silhouettes of sportswear set. Layered fitness set realizes the possibility to be worn in multiple occasions. Detachable design and splicing set increase the flexible sense of control of wearers. The lustre of velvet and sequin endows sports fashion with entry-luxury texture. Comfortable home set applies more details and silhouette changes based on the comfort to satisfy multi-scene requirement and practicality. The silhouette of retro set is more diversified and vital.

With the acceleration of modern life pace, function and beauty-appreciation become the design direction in the future. Collar design is the major element of practical leather jacket in autumn and winter. More fashion, environmental protection and leisure concepts are injected into leather&fur item design. Exquisite crafts underline the textured feel and individuality, such as layered collar, shrunken collar, square lapel, ribbed collar and asymmetric collar.

Early autumn 2022 loungewear is affecting the design of knitwear. Influenced by the longing for outdoor activity and nature, sportswear element is added into loungewear set. Riding pants, sweatpants, hoodie and fitness shorts are important to knitwear set with comfortable silhouettes. Asymmetric pattern, color blocking and cutout present a more delicate sport style. And layering is a more stylish clothing collocation. Delicate stitching, exquisite jacquard pattern and broad shoulder bring design feel to clothing.