In recent years, various phenomena in the domestic outdoor community have shown that outdoor culture is spreading to cities. Urban outdoor styles are emerging, gradually influencing the daily commuting style due to their unique advantages in urbanization, lightness, and universality, forming a unique trend of light business outdoor commuting. Emphasizing comfort, practicality, and fashion, we aim to enhance the diverse needs of key light business outdoor commuting items through multifunctional design and the use of high-tech fabrics. This report focuses on the most widely used waterproof fabrics under this popular trend, and releases the direction of the development and application of new season fabrics from the perspective of material usage.

Outdoor sports style is gradually prevailing in children's clothing, with an increasing emphasis on the practicality and functionality of fabrics. This report focuses on single items of boys' outerwear through research and tracking of representative brand fabrics. It analyzes and recommends suitable fabric categories based on the dressing needs of different scenarios and popular fabric textures. It provides fabric trend directions and style recommendations for the development of spring/summer 2025 outdoor sports style boys' outerwear.

The fusion of Korean leisure and functionality in the style of 2025 spring/summer women's clothing is worth paying attention to, as the fabrics cater to both fashionable texture and practical features. This report focuses on the trend of jacket silhouettes under this style, combining popular fabric textures of the moment and providing suitable fabric directions for the development of 2025 spring/summer women's jacket collections, serving as a fabric planning guide for clothing companies and as a reference for fabric exhibitions.

Silk fabric has always been one of the main materials for women's spring and summer clothing. With consumers' increasing demands for durability and comfort in clothing, silk fabrics made primarily from mulberry silk have expanded their use in the development of women's clothing beyond classic categories like shirts and dresses to include suit jackets. This has brought about new technological and aesthetic demands for the development of silk fabric products, ranging from physical performance to visual functionality. This report comprehensively explores the trend of silk fabrics for women's spring and summer clothing in terms of material composition, organizational structure, the functional texture brought about by physical properties, and the expansion direction of silk fabric applications in garment categories.

Chanel style has always been admired for its classic and elegant design style. At the core of its appeal is the use of tweed fabric, which injects a sense of delicacy and taste into the clothing with its unique texture and quality. The POP fabric trend team, through in-depth research on representative brands, has found that tweed fabric that combines traditional nobility and elegance with fashionable leisure style is highly sought after by young consumers. This report will focus on the main styles of coarse tweed fabric for women's clothing in the spring and summer of 2025: the healing series of pastel colors intertwined, the technological feel of metallic shiny threads, and the minimalist and casual solid colors. Corresponding fabric texture trends and style recommendations will be provided.

The POP Material Trend Team has analyzed the three most popular men's fashion styles, namely vintage, urbancore, and mountain workwear, based on the current market trends. They have found that one of the key items in all three styles is the jacket. This report focuses on the jacket category from a fabric perspective and analyzes the key trends in jacket fabrics for each style, taking into account the unique features and silhouettes of each style. The aim is to assist fabric companies in their fabric development and provide recommendations for popular style fabrics to designers.

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.

Retro Time conveys the spiritual expression of Gen Z consumers' nostalgic emotions and awakens the memory of the golden age via scene replays. Discovering the oasis that we desire for, an escapist journey is started in the high summer. With the use of joyous tones, new elements are joined by the old to present a retro vacation style. Retro Time hopes to create a relaxing and carefree mini-vacation atmosphere for the busy teenagers in city. A self-healing summer rhapsody reminds us of the passion and romance in summer, and re-interprets the highlights of that classic, golden age.

Metaverse is a society under constant evolutions. The rise of virtual digital clothing leads to the innovation and revolution of fabrics. The consumer groups of Metaverse are the Gen Z and Generation Alpha who love luxurious streetwear. Driven by the styles as virtual interaction, futuristic technology, NFT, avant-garde streetwear, and smart business, designers bring suiting, digital knits, PU leather, patented leather, and metallic luster to the forefront of menswear. Focusing on visual effects and fun performance, the thematic fabrics of Metaverse are mainly applied to produce coordinates, trench coats, shirts, pullovers, and leggings.

The freed ones, who are pursuing personal expression, present the fashion trend of Me Generation by their unique rebellious attitude. Every one desires for expressing the real-self but feels ashamed when looking around. Anxiety is thus emerged. There is a group of young people chasing for the definition of real-self through their cognition and brave attitude of fashion. Getting rid of the barrier of self domain to release the instinct, they refuse to be defined by the known. Positive lifestyle drives the young heart beats and stimulates the real humanity. Genderless, which includes all kinds of body shape, is the core of Freed. Digital knitted fabric, faded knitted fabric, technology light fabric and eco-friendly denim are combined with loose silhouettes to present the flowing temperament of contemporary teenagers. The concept of diverse personality reveals the multiple faces of freed ones.

Velvety fabric reflects a sense of retro court, which has been the symbol of understated luxury. The green velvet dress of Scarlett in the film Gone with the Wind is extremely amazing. A simple velvet gown dress sends out an air of dignity without any gorgeous decoration. This report will focus on A/W 22/23 velvet, silk velvet, pleuche, velveteen, textured corduroy, and embossed flocking, jacquard and burn-out fabrics.

There is simple and modest elegancy between light and shadow, brightness and darkness, virtual and reality. People want to reflect infinite reveries in limited space through the interaction with space and nature.

The consumption concept of modern male consumers is tend to be rational. They call for the pursuit of high-quality life details and use tiny items to decorate clothing. Metal decorations are used widely on casual fur and leather. Button, chain, zipper, ornament and pendant underline the direct and free fashion style and also enrich the layers of accessory application, which makes clothing items more delicate and textured.

“J'AI SEUL LA CLEF DE CETTE PARADE SAUVAGE.” -- Arthur Rimbaud's Parade The elegant tonality of Château Vaux le Vicomte shows the all-around graceful nobility. The knights in the garden are solemn and handsome, chanting their romantic love and spiritual faith. The culture of contemporary teenager and classical literature are integrated into the clothing to start a dream of this new era. The romanticism of 19th century, fearless Chivalry, and Renaissance aesthetics use new romanticism to express the intensive pursuit of ideal and affirm the subjectivity of people. Different fabrics and European romantic colors present the passionate Chivalry and follow the global trend of environmental protection. Brave knight leather, romantic retro wool, metal lustrous fiber and low-carbon eco-friendly denim are the recommended A/W 22/23 fabrics of Chanting Knight

The additional fabrics of autumn 2021 satisfy the daily wearing and also present changes on appearance and texture. This report will discuss and predict the fabric trend for A/W 2021 through the introduction of variable stripe &check, distressed & tie-dyed, satin &silk, soft leather, metal lustre, modern corduroy, transparent lace & gauze, light tweed, fancy quilting, and 3D embossing.

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.

Comfort and wear resistance are still the most important elements in S/S 2022 menswear after the epidemic. For outerwear and trench coats this season, applying minimalist styles, warm and healing colors, plain and durable textures is the key to satisfy people's physic and mental dressing demand. Thus, this report will present the important cotton fabric trend for S/S 2022 menswear through introducing lightweight organic cotton, triple-proof double-faced twill and RT draped fabric.

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 people's enthusiasm for the wilderness and nature and the revive of the world, people are looking for a sense of safety from nature and outdoors. Therefore, protective, functional and technical fabrics fit for both urban commute and outdoors will be more popular with consumers. This report mainly analyzes technical matte fabric, bio-based fleece and space-like graphene fabric, as well as their applications on menswear and womenswear, thus reflecting the key trend of functional and sustainable fabrics in A/W 21/22.