This report is inspired by the theme Strange Twinning. This "hybrid age" connects people with mixed identities, different backgrounds, status and cultures. And cultural shock brings the crisis of hybrid identity and solitude to the young generation. They express a "natural vagrancy" attitude through "fair-skinned, young and slim" or "sweet, beautiful and quirky" style, and hope to meet their doppelgangers with shared values via big data. Imaginative and creative, they pay for their hobbies and ideas, and inversely influence the mainstream by their interpersonal cultures through content socialization. This report will mainly introduce colorful nude gauze, girly voluminous chemical fiber fabric and fresh charming flower fabric.

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.

Enjoying the retro feeling of urban and wandering in the complex cities, we once again use retro trend to communicate with time and space.The comfort of emotion and body is continuously extended to textures. The skin-friendly, highly elastic, crinkle resistant and easily-care fabrics can satisfies more and more health-oriented consumers. The purest colors are attracting people's attention. Natural plain colors bring us a retro urban vibe and reconstruct the classic items. Comfortable Tencel cotton fabric is applied based on the placement deconstruction philosophy to reveal the emotional and physical comfortable feeling.

The young generation look at this world in their immature and imaginative views. Being busying with virtual social, the globalization background connects people from various environments, identities, statuses and cultures. And we call it The Hybrid Age. Those people who pay for their hobbies and ideas become the main consumers of the Circling-layering Economy, expressing the thinking of “Understand Ourselves”. This topic focuses on the color of S/S 2022 chemical fiber fabric and blended polyester fabric to build a color aesthetics which fit the beauty-appreciation of this young generation. We hope to allow strangers from different environments to understand each other and cause soul resonance under the conflicts of various cultures. And we also want to break the circling-layering culture by content spreading and work for the mainstream.

The quick-paced urban life makes consumers tired of monotonous products, and they hope to meet something undiscovered, fun and novel. This report reinterprets fabric patterns to highlight the romantic young lady style which will be a new trend for S/S 2022 womenswear fabrics. Flora and flowers bring beauty and hope to anxious and stressful consumers. New crafts such as (clipping and carving, jacquard) are combined with printed fabrics to present artistic and fine expressions on garments. The fresh quality soothes and comforts our restless souls.

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.

Influenced by new femininity, a new retro romantic style sets off a craze in fashion industry. It emphasizes the inner feeling of the wearer and adapts to the connection between changing times and clothes. This report focuses on sheer and novel blended fabrics to endow consumers with fine femininity, and analyzes the lightweight organza, fresh check and cotton-like floral fabrics to reveal the fabric trend for S/S 2022 womenswear.

As people have a deeper understanding of how the environment affects human health, sustainability remains the focus of consumers and brands. 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 traceable recycle and supply chain through digital technologies. Therefore, this theme centers on organic cotton fibers, color-grown cotton, regenerative organic farming, vegetable dyeing, slow handicraft and recycling concept to imagine a green lifestyle. They are also key driving forces for textile industry in the coming years.

2022 faces new challenges of wellness and economy. Resources waste, people's focus on wellness, and the attention to handicrafts drive industries to innovate. The textile industry is no exception. For the masses, we find home life prompts thrift, so that designers begin to focus on redesigning waste fabrics. As a result of handicrafts and decoration trend, rugged relief and natural weaving textures become key fabric trends. In the post-coronavirus era, protection will be a key standard for fabrics. Healing copper, silver and other metal fibers give S/S fabrics a new function and appearance. In addition, ice dyeing rises and renews previous tie-dye, so fabrics develop towards a natural, eco-friendly and harmonious direction. This report will center on fabrics to conclude keywords for S/S 2020 fabric trend in terms of fibers, functions, crafts, colors and texture changes. The series of reports about S/S 2022 key words will continue.

At present, Asian culture, especially Chinese culture, has become an important force attracting worldwide attention. In 18th-century France, a style amazed the world with its gorgeous colors and complicated designs. That is named as Chinoiserie in 19th-centuary, expressing Europeans' imagination for the oriental culture. It is the Europeanized Chinese style, full of mystery, romance and adventure. In modern times, it is common to blend oriental characteristics into the works of various styles in art. Nowadays, local designers are rising, and they hope to inherit and connect oriental and western cultures. Therefore, complicated jacquard and luxurious velvet become key fabrics, opening a new chapter of future clothes.

As consumers pursue a high quality of life and the "less but better" concept, elegant tweed prevails more widely. The most representative one is Chanel tweed which is leisure-luxe and elevated. In the new season, tweed uses thick yarns with a high gram weight and exude its noble temperament. Soft multicolored yarns intertwine with each other or blend with metallic yarns to enhance the luxurious feeling. In the new season, thick check tweed revives and appears on the latest collections of Gucci and MSGM, quite noteworthy.

The COVID-19 pandemic, turbulent politics and unstable society trigger our fear. And the digital technology spreads fear quickly. People are eager to escape from reality and extends their individuality through surreal, dark, edgy street looks. Maison Margiela A/W 20/21 displays a surrealistic artistic collection via digital video. Therefore, in A/W 21/22 the mystical dark tone will prevail in womenswear fabrics, appeals to young consumers via charming street fashion culture and drives the rise of horror aesthetics.

Lace is the most classic feminine element. In A/W 21/22, lace displays the new female power in terms of colors and crafts. Sedate and secret is the spirit of lace in A/W 21/22, and becomes an important trend. Moreover, water-soluble paper-cut lace, skin-friendly lace and embroidery lace are more important and noteworthy.

Ethereal gauze has always been favored by online celebrities and mega brands. Alexander McQueen, Gucci, Dior and Valentino all use this feminine and exquisite fabric in the new series. The hazy second-skin hand feel, fluffy textures and romantic flowers team up with chic soft layered designs to interpret the charm of gauze and display the strong femininity.