The colors of Metaverse look like the spectrum reflected by a crystal prism. These pure colors extracted from the virtual world are extremely bright and clean. We divide this theme into four colorways: Girls' Universe(Sweet & Cool), Oriental Phantom(Chinese Chic), Virtual Sunrise(Western Fashion) and New Era(Scientific Streetwear). Neutrals, warm tones and cold tones are all involved to enrich the color inspiration. Girls' Universe is inspired by the works of Chinese digital artist Jiahui Ding to describe the life condition of oriental girls; Oriental Phantom comes from the photograph collection 'Oriental Beauty' by Zhong Lin; Virtual Sunrise gets inspiration from the digital artworks of Bloo Woods and Blake Kathryn; New Era extracts the charming blue and purple tones from the digital artworks of SMECCEA to lead us to the gate of Metaverse.

The market of core sportswear is changing and young consumers are also pursuing fashionable and multi-functional items. The boundaries between outdoor, fashion and commuting are blurred to elevate the design of multi-scene dressing. As a key item, shorts combine functionality with outdoor elements to show both practicality and fashion. Thigh-length silhouette endows trousers with more possibilities and provides more choices for young consumers.

Those freed ones, who are pursuing personal expression, present the fashion trend of Me Generation through their rebellious attitude. Influenced by the disembedding mind, they are trying to recognize more circles and desiring for a more diversified sense of belonging. Including multiple cultures, emotional fission and restructuring endow fashion with new meaning and release the real mind. Steady and high-class neutrals are fused with acid colors to present a wide hue range with energy. The brought visual impact is also harmonious. Positive self-expression and immersive atmosphere allow people to focus on themselves.

With the development of street culture, street fashion brands have also been more popular. This report titled The Return of Acid interprets the futuristic fashion trend. Acid designs may remind us of the Acid Techno, psychedelic rock and visual Op Art in the last 80s and 90s. A messy, random yet futuristic acid style is added to the patterns in this report to interpret the wonderful Utopian imagination through a new punk spirit.

The theme of Fanatic Techwear is filled with the futuristic and scientific feel. Combining with the latest color combinations of top brands, this theme is further divided into four parts: Too-cool Error Code, Hot-blooded Warrior, Industrial Wasteland and Space Radiance. When the human civilization and global resource come to the end, stylish youngsters are wearing technical and functional workwear to become female warriors, interpreting a distinctive decadent aesthetic.

The blurred boundary between working and daily life diversifies the looks of suit items and breaks the exclusive occasions. Wide-shoulder vintage Daddy style has returned with a strong momentum; loose new deconstruction style has been a key item of fashionistas; cropped suit is more layered and casual; additional piece wrap waist style is rather noteworthy. Besides, suit design with slight functions will also be a key developing direction.

Free, a word with infinite energy, gives people the prepared tension. New-emerging fashion we-medias and arts force the young generation to accept information constantly and try to look for their real-selves. Influenced by pioneering fashion culture, the dress of children is guided by the aesthetic of their parents. And Freed is more important to the fashion looks of teenagers. The core of this theme, Genderless Fashion is more likely to be accepted by young fashionistas. Loose outfits, plain materials, internet IP and crossover collaboration allow Freed to lead the fashion trend.

Pocket is an iconic design to present the practicality of clothing. And versatility is still important for the collections in the future. With the maintaining of functionality, workwear element and practicalism, pocket design has been extremely essential. Variable transformation designs of this season bring more unique pockets. The application of virtual pocket considers the whole silhouette and shows newness. Mixed material pocket endows menswear design with more exquisite craft. The combination of aesthetic and practical style has become a basic requirement. Notably, practical multi-pocket design provides more capacity and also presents richer lines and details.

The puffa jacket of this season puts emphasis on the subtle changes of details. Diverse visual effects are fused with functional features. Buckles and zippers are applied on placket to present diversity, which is decorative and practical. The detail change of sleeve is the best choice to underline the quality. Webbing is used to fix placket in multiple ways. The splicing of different fabrics is still noteworthy. Practical modular design has become the technique of more young designer brands. The design of 3D pocket presents unique changes in details.

Influenced by the NFT trend, the uniqueness and futurist feel of digital art have attracted many fashionistas. Art and virtual internet are under widespread applications and attempts. Surreal scenery can be shown through flowing liquid and the collision between time and space. Pixel games present the nostalgic retro, and digital fantasy brings a visual feast. Besides, virtual nature provides more fashion possibilities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As the mainstream category of kidswear, outerwear attracts consumers in S/S 2022 for its cross-seasonal practicality, comfort and multiple functions. Lightweight paper-like protective fabric is suitable for functional sportswear. Translucent polyurethane fabric is both rainproof and sunproof. Elegant dust shirt and advanced JK suit are also the trendy items.

Men's jacket plays an important role in brand sale. Under the borderless fashion trend, practicality and functionality have become the hot topics recently. Deconstructed functional jacket and light protective jacket gradually emerge. Besides, the practicality of workwear still dominates the fashion world. Retro baseball jacket becomes popular due to the rise of preppy style and retro topics. The zipped pullover style in the last season will also applied on jacket items.

Health has become the hottest global topic because of the epidemic. People desire for outdoor activity, respect the rules of life and nature and want to escape from the complicated trifles and meaningless battles. People are breaking through the limit and searching for their new selves. New functional fabrics explore the development of A/W 22/23 sportswear. Kishu bicho-tan charcoal fiber, bamboo carbon magnetic fiber, weak-acid Paramos cellulose fiber, anti-bacterial photocatalytic synthetic fiber, low-carbon thermal fiber and tear-resistant nylon66 fiber lead to new trend of outdoor functional fabric and provide consumers with more comfortable and advanced dressing experiences.

Vagrancy is a dialogue between spirit and world. Wandering to the end of the world to discover the wild winter landscape and the everlasting light on the horizon. Fine the new self of rule breaker by respecting life and law of nature, and escaping from trifles and meaning less disputes. From roaming to epiphany, we feel free and poetic, and start the self-exile with relaxed body and mind.

The detail craft design of down jacket combines functionality, practicality and fashion, such as detachable elongated garment. Distorted placket largely enriches the styling. Adjustable side details show better practicality. The large dimensional pockets present volume. And the thumbhole cuff design is applied on down jacket more to provide stronger protective and thermal functions, showing a practical and fashionable styling.

The swanky youth of this new era are growing up in the 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. Vintage faded knit fabric interprets the fearless color of youth. Retro stripe-check fabric salutes to the street culture. Coated nylon and protective cotton blend fabric protect the free and reckless youth through the comfortable functionality.

In this unstable period, purity shows its strong cohesion and healing power. Environmental fiber, plain texture, traditional craft and retro denim are exploring the durable comfortable fabric for both indoor and outdoor. We need to protect the nature through sustainable and recyclable craft, and we also need to protect ourselves from nature via outdoor design and comfortable wrapping protective products. A/W 22/23 denim pays more attention to the comfortable plain fabrics, such as retro sustainable denim, recyclable textured denim and distressed denim, which can stimulate people's desire for wearing classic denim in daily lives.