The ocean, once hailed as the blue heart of the Earth, has bestowed upon us endless beautiful memories and treasures of resources. However, the challenges faced by the ocean today are worrisome. Human activities such as nuclear waste disposal, carbon emissions, and overfishing are causing profound damage to marine ecosystems. Let us remember the dignity and preciousness of the ocean and take action together to protect this magical and vulnerable blue realm, creating a better and purer world. With the eternal promise of time, let us pass on this love and care to the succeeding generations, until all things flourish and the ocean remains eternal.

The theme of Ecological Corridor explores the appearance of nature's origins, with the primitive textures of plants becoming the form of clothing material design. Under the tree's breath, the literary study room restores the connection between humans and the natural origin. AI drawing technology combines biomimetic design with outdoor technology to realize the design model of future ecology. With an experimental attitude, it investigates the many possibilities of the connection between humans, nature, and design.

The unprecedented development of technology, aviation, and artificial intelligence is changing human’s traditional way of life and the world pattern. A new unknown era is coming. AI’s painting techniques are becoming popular, accelerating the progress of the metaverse, and a new utopian vision is vividly emerging. The technological revolution brings about human exploration of Martian civilization. Turbulence in the world pattern, and uncertain emotions about the future, as well as more anti-war sentiment and issues of resource allocation engulf this era all around the world.

The advancement of smart technology is driving the digital transformation of the textile industry, and the integration of fashion and technology will become a future development trend. Intelligent textiles are not a new concept, with a trend towards being lightweight, wearable, and mainly used in the fields of medical health, sports and fitness, and entertainment interaction. This report will focus on the application of smart wearable textiles in the field of entertainment interaction, using three representative brand products as entry points to illustrate the technical points of flexible electronic wearable textiles in emotional interaction, immersive game experience, and dynamic color-changing direction.

COSMOS perfectly fuses the sense of technology with futurism to improve the expression of avant-garde street fashion and urban techwear. The evolving of technology foresees the VR universe. Virtual vision, metallic texture, blurred colors and tensive letters are the main creative inspirations that exude a mysterious, unknown and bizarre atmosphere.

COSMOS expresses its optimism about future. The fashion industry has never as technological as now. The sci-fi aesthetic began with exploration of space by humans in the middle of the last century. The exploration of material technology is no longer conceptual, but practical and artistic. Apparels carry designers’ desire for futuristic creation. Integrating swing, programming and induction technology, streamlined shapes and fluid hi-tech materials outline the imagination toward the future space, and describe a parallel universe that tends to be supernatural, comprehensive and pioneering.

Metaverse ecology has entered into the fields of healthcare. In the post-pandemic era, people place great importance on their own health and a good state of mind, which also makes medical care one of the most concerned tracks in the global capital and technology market. Meta wellness is a more realistic and urgent approach than entertainment. Health is the eternal theme of human beings and the premise of human development. The transformation of lifestyle is the foundation of physical and mental health, and the transformation of medical treatment is an important technical guarantee for maintaining health. Diverse well-being lifestyles and metaverse healthcare lead people to an era of Meta Wellness.

Vegan leather is a kind of leather-like fabric that is made of various chemical plastics and plant-based materials. The high cost efficiency of vegan leather makes it the best substitution of real leather, however, it also brings environmental problems such as microplastic pollution. With the development of science and technology, eco-friendly plant-based leather has been developed. Unfortunately, plant-based leather cannot be 100% biodegradable due to the use of chemicals such as coatings, but major plant-based leather companies have achieved initial success in low-impact dyes. Numerous brands have partnered with plant-based leather companies to launch products such as ready-to-wear, shoes and bags.

Internet will be our ideal future. COSMOS theme borrows a time machine to human and allows them to go back to the past. From silent-movie era to the western world, night skies to foggy forests, human are now embracing the all-around digital age and moving forward in the revolution. Aesthetic exploration fuses sci-fi with futurism, present with the past to develop tensive femininity-driven clothes.

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 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.

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.

With consumer's rising pursuit of comfortable and versatile knitwear, exploring protective and healthy properties is the key fabric trend for S/S 2022 women's knitwear. Consumers and designers are paying more attention to the sustainable soft-tactile fabric and natural eco-friendly knitted fabric. Therefore, healing lustrous knitted fabric, natural tie-dyed knitted fabric and anti-bacterial plain fabric are the recommended high-quality and sustainable knitted fabrics to create all-day versatile knitted items suitable for both working and entertainment.

With people's rising attention to health, the fabrics with peaceful and comfortable property become more popular. Comfort, health and functionality will be the key developing trend of S/S 2022 kidswear knitted fabric. Natural and outdoor elements can also be applied to improve the market value. Thus, natural knitted fabric, bright wide-stripe fabric and mushroom printed fabric will be the noteworthy fabrics in S/S 2022.

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.

For S/S 2022 women's knitted garments, it is a key point that fashion moves toward elevated simplicity. Exquisite details become the top priority. Brand-new functions and fabrics create elevated yet basic styles, and functionality and protection underline an elevated feel. For core knits, organic fabrics and eco-friendly fabrics are worth investment, and low-impact natural dyestuff is used. Therefore, this report focuses on polylactic acid fiber fabric, Sorona® fabric and one-sided three-yarn loop fabric.

Due to the change of lifestyles, sustainability and environmental protection become the focus of infants' wear. Therefore, comfort and sustainability will be a key trend for infants' knitted fabrics in A/W 21/22, aiming to make items more practical, relaxing and durable. Fabrics with single component and eco-friendly natural materials will be key designs of this trend. Bamboo fiber fabric, seersucker, comfortable quilted fabric and brushed sweatshirt fabric are multifunctional and trans-seasonal, fit for A/W 21/22 infants' wear.

With the development of our society, sustainability remains the focus of consumers and brands. People pursue a healthy lifestyle and have a deeper understanding of how comfortable and functional knitted fabrics affect people's health. For the textile industry, it is a key consideration of how to transform fiber into fashion in a sustainable way, how to lower the impact on the environment with natural fibers, and how to realize a chain of functional composite fibers and renewable resources through digital technologies. Therefore, this theme centers on DuPont Sorona fibers, modal fibers, healthy energy fibers, cellulose acetate, mercerized faux-linen knit and lycra fibers, so as to provide a green and healthy lifestyle which is also the crucial driving force for the textile industry in next few years.

With the prevalence of home style, kidswear renews core items with playful knitted fabrics. As kidswear pays more attention to durability and sustainability, natural fibers and recycled fabrics will be crucial fabrics for S/S 2022. Comfortable and fun textiles meet the need for vigorous kidswear and create a fun vibe for summer kidswear.

When first created, robots were just used to emphasize the application of technology. But with the time lapse and the development of science and technology, people need emotional care more. Therefore, the emotional awareness will be the development direction of future intelligent technology. As the micro film Mission by Lexus elaborates, Love is the destination of technology. After all, human physical sensors are limited, and people create the technology to better communicate with the world. Starting from "love", this report discusses the temperature, the meaning and the content of technology in a shapeless and unquantitative way.