When people feel tired of the urban life, a lifestyle of Urban Outdoor has gradually emerged. These urban people with such concept are not limited by word “urban”. The outdoor attitude is integrated into daily life to break the restraint and show the love for life. The balance and coexistence between city and nature create a distinctive style of urban outdoor.

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.

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.

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.

People will endow daily lives with their living conditions and desire. The influence of post-epidemic era, unsteadiness of social economy and natural changes can make people love the pretty nature more. In the current fashion world, many plant and flower elements show up with multiple design styles, which is fashionable and fits people's willingness. This report will interpret the natural beauty through the introduction of holiday memory, casual nature, flowing camouflage, punk retro and abstract freehand painting.

Having experienced the long-lasting restraint brought by the epidemic, fashion should return to the joyous condition and welcome the rapid development of new technology. People's escapist emotion leads to the longing for the retaliatory carnival. Avant-garde individuality expression is rising. The silhouette of clothing shows a more dimensional spatial styling. Designers blur the borders between reality and virtual, ancient and future through the digitalized thinking. Besides, loungewear is fused with formal wear, leisure wear and workwear to recreate the comfortable yet distinctive attitude.

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.

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 key developing point of jackets this season is classic revolution and maintained practicality. There have been bigger changes on the collar of classic preppy style baseball jacket. Large volume and placement deconstructed details are applied on classic pilot jacket to show chic. Practical multi-pocket jacket, windproof hooded loose jacket and narrow-collar loose jacket which tightens hem and cuffs are still under development this season. The placement details pursue high quality and practicality, and the whole presents practical leisure style.

The fashionable and thermal polar fleece will keep influencing the whole fashion industry. It can present diversified styles through different items and provide stylish dressing collocations to the young male consumers. The following collocations are depending on different scenes, and each one has a high utilization rate.

With the uprising of comfortable and practical style, the loose silhouette has become the direction of men's trousers. And the classic cargo pants will lead to a new fashion, attracting wider young consumers through their outstanding versatility and becoming the essential item of fashionable leisure clothes and street clothing markets. The neat detailed surface and flat 2D pockets make the straight cargo pants more advanced. Cargo pants also pay attention to the innovative design of 3D pockets. The voluminous design maintains the comfort of workwear and develops toward the more comfortable direction, searching for the creative integration of daily comfortable style and functional practicality.

The brigade feels the natural environment and the wander spirit after escaping from cities. The natural scenery once again stimulates visual sensory and color changes. Dark Ivy and Green Moss balance the classic leisurely style and diversified outdoor modelling. The Amber Brown and Night Owl inject practicality into the palette.

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.

Practicality and functionality is the key point of S/S 2022 trousers design. The adjustable design which leaves growth space for kids is essential this season. Detachable designs put emphasis on practicality and functionality with various visual feelings. Retro is still the key trend, retro gym shorts and A-type breeches which can be worn in multiple occasions and seasons become fashionable and extra-value items.

Under the influence of the background, the more delicate urban simplified aesthetic concept better fits the trend of A/W after experiencing individualized street fashion. Natural and improved tech fabric with minimalism and classic style creates a practical design which breaks the border of seasons. Meanwhile, the beauty-appreciation of consumers, practicality, versatility and lifespan of products decide the sale volume of items. This report will introduce the information and application of Nylon-cotton wear-resistance elastic fabric, plush thermal-storage elastic fabric and classic denim fabric to reveal the important fabric trend for A/W 21/22 men's trousers.

S/S 2022 Theme Forecast

This pandemic causes an unsteady economy, and drives simple practicality and aesthetics to be future design directions. Parkas and trench coats are necessary items for pragmatists. Inspired by fashion leisure style, parkas also mix with practical style, and absorbs advanced concepts including fashion, sustainability, comfort and leisure. Exquisite crafts underline quality and individuality, such as front overlap design, spliced front and back panels, pocket designs and decorative beads.

Vagrancy is a dialogue between inner spirit and the outer world. We wander to the end of the world to discover the wild winter landscape and the everlasting light on the horizon, find the new self by respecting life and law of nature, and escape from trifles and meaningless disputes. From roaming to epiphany, we feel free and poetic, and start the self-exile with relaxing vagrancy.

In A/W 21/22, trousers will be more flexible, versatile and creative. With changes of fashion and consumption ways, street fashion prevails because it helps to extend individuality and express attitude. It is a key trend to fuse cool designs with soft fabrics for comfortable street fashion trousers. Workwear trousers play a key role this season. Adjustable gathered-ankle trousers, tapered trousers and mock-layer designs are also irreplaceable in A/W 21/22.