With urbanization, work pressure, and people’s pursuit of healthy lifestyles, more and more people are beginning to value outdoor sports. We can see from social media that more and more people are willing to share their outdoor life experiences and showcase their equipment . In addition, outdoor brands are constantly launching new products and technologies to meet consumers’ needs for outdoor life. Based on research into the new trends of outdoor brands and current consumer actions towards outdoor sports, this report identifies the key development directions for outdoor sports fabrics in 2025, which are mainly divided into three directions: technological exploration, naturalism, and urban outdoor. The technological exploration mainly focuses on professional outdoor exploration, pursuing high-tech texture and high-performance protection; naturalism is a way for people to re-recognize and feel the natural lifestyle, seeking harmony and coexistence with nature; urban outdoor showcases the yearning of urbanites for a free and casual lifestyle, and is a kind of stress-relieving light outdoor sports that meets multiple occasions.

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.

'Man is the measure of all things.’ Because of the long-term lockdown, people have more time to think about the meaning of their existence, and feel the surrounding changes. Abnormal natural environment, matrix interference and unknown creatures are exposed in the public, which let us think about whether the world really exists. The revival of digital culture presents infinite possibilities and affects the real world.

With the development of textile chemical technology and textile sustainability, polyester fiber welcomes a new revolution. This report introduces the technical principles and foresees the trend in two directions: eco-friendly polyester and performance polyester.

Our routine living and working in city limit people’s natural characteristics and hobbies. The desire for releasing mental pressure promotes the multi-dimensional revolution of micro-vacation. The longing for outdoor wildness restarts our lives in a pleasant mood and decodes the pressure. For fashion design, designers are also breaking the monotonous boundaries of purposes and properties to develop practical pieces for multiple occasions.

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.

Down jacket is the most important media to keep out the cold in autumn and winter. Except for the must-have thermal performance and tri-proof functions, the appearance of textiles improves the visual values and the artistic and fun surfaces may provide positive psychological suggestions. This report will introduce you digital graduated fabric, kaleidoscopic fabric, retro recyclable fabric, playful checked fabric, lustrous metal fabric, and impressive leather to inspire the development of A/W 22/23 down jacket fabric.

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.

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.

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.

With the rising requirements of minimalist and protective styling, the protective innovative chemical fiber fabrics have become the mainstream. A/W 2022/23 chemical fiber fabrics pay attention to both comfort and versatility. The environmental elements take the design process to the less-is-more concept. Developing high-quality core fabrics of essential items is important for those value-oriented consumers. Versatile colors, practical functional fibers and materials are applied to strengthen the difference and newness and improve the durability and value. Therefore, synthetic protective fabric, environmental practical leather and metallic lustre fabric form the New Normality closet with practical silhouettes.

Sustainable design is the new ecological concept of S/S 2022 denim industry. Eco-friendly and comfortable denim fabrics prefer environmental protection materials to satisfy consumers' expectation of sustainable fashion. Eco-friendly fiber denim, degradable synthetic fiber denim and anti-bacterial denim provide consumers with more more practical and functional denim styles with outstanding dressing experience, which have attracted the eyesight of those consumers who pay attention to environment protection and sustainable fashion.

S/S 2022 determined to be full of uncertainty, just like the recurrence and mutant of epidemic in the early 2021. The young consumers are immersed in the virtual world to release emotion and filter the reality. And these all aspects will rebuild our designs and street textures. The rapid development of digital science technology and the color feeling of fantastic soft focus will reveal the endless possibilities of men's street fabrics under the theme Filter Reality. From virtual video games to digital science technology, Gen-Z is continuously searching for new ways of catharsis, and this is also a key concept of this theme fabric trend. The brand new designs and high-tech innovative textures bring stronger avant-garde street feeling to futuristic menswear brands.

People are longing for escaping from the urban pressure and going for a distant journey to find back the integration of youth and nature. Embracing nature and bathing in the leisurely outdoor times, people and nature are reconnected. With the developing science and technology, outdoor functional protective fabrics are carrying people's pursuit of embracing nature and challenging themselves. And the improved overall performance better fits body's functions. The era of Outdoor Plus has come. Therefore, this report follows the sustainable design concept and satisfies consumers' dressing requirement through recommending high-quality functional and practical fabrics.

Under the trend of multi-occassion clothing, S/S 2022 women's suits and trench coats underline the comfort and also improve the wholeness and style fluency to avoid wrong clothing collocation. The new design of S/S 2022 applies texture and tailoring changes to upgrade and update these items. Designers select the fabrics which combine classic suits and practical styles, such as acetate-like glossy fabric, matte plain blended fabric and functional chemical fiber fabric, which make high-adaptability suits become more important.

Coronavirus attacked and corroded human's health in 2020. And the transition season is coming, the cold winter which is suitable for bacteria spreading is coming. Except for the routine topic of thermal, how to prevent and kill viruses becomes the new common topic for human. The Gen Z that is active at the front of fashion is good at accepting new things and advanced concept. Visual fashion can no more satisfy their taste, and they prefer the style with both visual beauty and functionality. The application of A/W 2022 anti-coronavirus fiber fabric, eco-friendly dope-dyed fabric and anti-fouling easily-washing fabric on Gen Z's favourite street cotton-padded clothes and puffa jackets can upgrade the protective function and make this collocation more comfortable.

With the new trending practical style, consumers are wearing denim items more and more often. New standards of elasticity and performance higher people's expectation toward denim items, especially jeans. S/S 2022 functional fabrics is the key trend to improve the comfort and update the style of daily denim clothing. Thus, this report introduces fabrics like cotton eco-friendly denim, elastic blended denim and high-performance denim which can create the expected women's denim item of S/S 2022.

With the development of digital technology, seeing and hearing will be digitized, and touch and smell will also be digitized. Immersive digital technology is gradually filtering the reality, and reality and social intercourse are increasingly tied up with virtuality. Gen Z enjoys immersing themselves in a virtual audiovisual world, releasing their emotions and making their voices heard. We behind the filter also feel empathetic and express our thoughts via futuristic mixed styling. At present, the filter reality has been extended as boundaries between people and things in different fields or attributes, and boundary between garments and crafts is also gradually blurred. Brand-new trans-boundary designs can be tried to bring a more avant-garde street style.

S/S 2022 is a creative season with future and technology. From healing habits to future science and virtual space-time, fashion consumers start to count on the future technology. The revival of Cyberpunk and technical fabrics push forward the development of future technology in the fashion world. Chemical fiber fabrics are soon widely applied to men's overcoats and trousers. Moreover, the color of S/S 2022 chemical fiber fabric menswear also presents a sense of science and technology.