The rise of outdoor sports and mountaineering lifestyle prompts the trend of men’s active jackets. According to the in-depth researches on men’s and boys’ active jackets, printed fabrics are trending upward, especially digital smudges and classic outdoor camous.

Fasteners can not only give functional details, but also shift the styling of garments. The smart designs strengthen the practicality and show newness. The application on utility activewear improves the sense of fashion.

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.

The development of outdoor sports and fashion markets leads to the higher requirements of practicality and protective performance. Different functional accessories have been the key details for all attires. Buckles, sliders, and hooks are placed at new positions. Special fireman clasps and deck hooks are returned for an outdoor military style. Climbing hooks and fixed tabs continue the practicality.

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.

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.

We are always looking forward to the future or the unknown world. The visual culture born in millennium precisely satisfies people's fantasy of the future world. Subcultures gradually come into the spotlight and affect the mainstream. Emerging street fashion and immersive technologies blend future technology and subculture with street fashion brands, interpreting the unruly individuality of Gen Z. In the digital age of information explosion, the Internet has become the main way for us to socialize. With the development of digital technology, seeing and hearing are digitized, and touch and smell will also be digitized. The reality will be gradually filtered by immersive digital technologies. This report mainly analyzes eco-friendly and renewable Econyl fabric, antibacterial and protective graphene fabric, and natural waterproof Ventile cotton fabric. Their applications to S/S 2022 men's and women's outerwear update street fashion outerwear of Gen Z and give a comfortable and practical wearing experience.

Vagrancy is a dialogue between the spirit of self and the outside world. We wander to the end of the world, encounter wonderful scenes in the winter wilderness, appreciate the wild primitive landscape, and search for the eternal light on the horizon. We respect the laws of life and nature, escape from multifarious trifles and meaningless disputes, and feel the free new self in the essence. From roaming to sudden enlightenment, we feel the freedom and poetic spirit. Urbanites who yearns for natural wilderness step on the journey of life, and wander toward the end of the world. This offers infinite inspiration and creativity for A/W 21/22 outdoor menswear fabrics.

Global investment in sports technology continues to rise, from less than $1 billion in 2011 to $10 billion in 2019. Although it's not an explosive growth, but this is a potential area with steady growth every year. The explosive development of science and technology has greatly promoted the sports fabric industry. Innovators try to draw inspirations from the nature, and sustainable fabrics processed by biotechnology will get more attention. The outerwear fabrics get more and more technical, and functionality and adaptability are still focuses of the market.