"My photography is more subtraction than addition. I always try to take off things. We all have a sort of mask of expression. You say goodbye, you smile, you are scared,"said the famous photographer Paolo Roversi,"I try to take all these masks away and little by little subtract until you have something pure left. A kind of abandon, a kind of absence." Woman has another side of her which is hidden behind the expression. Is that the pure imperfect prettiness Paolo gives us? We'd like to subtract the complex and exaggerated part of our life and to reveal the real elegancy and beauty. The theme of Visions explores the coexisted relationship of human, nature and technology. The sustainable development of eco-friendly process protects our mother planet, and the growth of science & technology promotes us into a brand new field. We can feel the romantic textures of raw materials based on all these new connections.

The Campaign for Wool is a global endeavour initiated by its patron, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, in 2010 in order to raise awareness among consumers about the unique, natural, renewable and biodegradable benefits offered by the fiber. With the rise of healthy and casual lifestyle in the world scale, wool has been applied more on sportswear. Its natural properties allow wool to be the best choice for daily running, yoga and riding.

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.

The consumer of this theme, Sensory Intensifier pursues orderly aesthetics and the designs of transboundary senses. Op Art psychedelic fabric is fused with the ultimate joy of colorfulness to explore the deep down senses. Gucci Aria's jewelry collection Hortus Delicarum refines unique gemstones and arranges them in asymmetric disorder. The application of digital gloss and acrylic jewelry creates the dazzling visual effect of dance floor. Op knitting fabric, joyous glossy fabric, sensory woolen fabric, decorative geometric fabric and composite fur fabric all convey the luxurious value. Rhythmic pattern and the flowing effect of reflective gloss provide people with the interactive experience with clothing.

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.

Woolen fabric plays an important role in autumn and winter. With the development and innovation of fiber and fabric, knitted woolen fabric will be widely used in A/W 22/23. It is more elastic than woven woolen fabric and more delicate than knitwear textiles, and it also ensures the thermal property. Such knitted woolen fabric can be used to produce middle layers under overcoat and puffa jacket. This report will focus on the pattern of knitted woolen jacquard, and its new materials and post-finishing techniques.

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.

Consumers' promotion and practice of slow and easy lifestyle make people feel that delicate urban clothes provide restraint. Finding a balanced point between urban fashion and relaxed leisure clothes therefore has become the main pursuit. Blend knit fabric is combined with minimalist modern aesthetic to refresh the fashion leisure items. It also endows delicacy based on the comfort. Flexible lifestyle allows comfortable and fashion feel to be the main point of blend knit fabric. Refined rib, thermal napping knit, mineral-textured fancy yarn and faded plain knit will be the main fabric trend for A/W 22/23.

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 global fashion industry has entered into the era of sustainable development. As the center of global textiles and the core of supply chain, China has a large consumption market. The recycling industry chain of textile industry is coming to a brand new stage. Bio herbaceous fiber is the fiber textiles which have biological functions. Mint fiber, tea fiber, linen fiber, sarcandra fiber, mugwort fiber and isatidis fiber enrich the application of herbs and take nature into the modern cities.

Since the world entered the 21st century, the amount of natural resources that human beings can obtain from the earth is decreasing, the environmental awareness in consumer goods market is gradually strengthening, and the concept of low-carbon, environmental protection and sustainable is highly praised. Therefore, new fiber textiles have attracted more attention and development. The natural color of Plantcot fiber is eco-friendly and healthy which also reduces the pollution caused by dyeing. The new natural fibers extracted from corn, lavender, banana and sarcandra decrease the waste of plant resource and strengthen the health function of fiber textiles. Moisturizing and skin-protection Collaskin collagen fiber is made by the extraction of the scale and skin of deep-sea fishes. Green energy is the only way to realize sustainable development of human beings. The bio-based products and green energy have become the forefront of the world science and technology field. Therefore, bio-based fiber fabric will become an important trend for fabric development in the future.

With consumers' longing for slow and relaxing life, balanced and healthy comfortable items are in a rising trend. Sports knit fabrics are combined with modern and fresh design aesthetics to bring a brand new feeling. And the new layering design is injected into the basic sports style to endow the comfortable clothes with elegance and delicacy. Flexible life and work styles make comfortable and secure feeling become the key to sports knit fabrics. Therefore, driven by encouraging consumers to maintain a balance between physical and mental health and vitality, stretchy knit fabric, functional mesh knit fabric and 3D applique knit fabric have become the trending fabrics to create versatile sports styling.

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.

With consumer's rising pursuit of comfortable and versatile knitwear, exploring protective and healthy properties is the key fabric trend for S/S 2022 women's knitwear. Consumers and designers are paying more attention to the sustainable soft-tactile fabric and natural eco-friendly knitted fabric. Therefore, healing lustrous knitted fabric, natural tie-dyed knitted fabric and anti-bacterial plain fabric are the recommended high-quality and sustainable knitted fabrics to create all-day versatile knitted items suitable for both working and entertainment.

With people's rising attention to health, the fabrics with peaceful and comfortable property become more popular. Comfort, health and functionality will be the key developing trend of S/S 2022 kidswear knitted fabric. Natural and outdoor elements can also be applied to improve the market value. Thus, natural knitted fabric, bright wide-stripe fabric and mushroom printed fabric will be the noteworthy fabrics in S/S 2022.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, with the depletion of global petrochemical resources and the strengthening of environmental awareness of consumer goods market, natural polymer materials with sustainable development features have become more and more important, and many raw materials are changing from chemical raw materials to raw materials extracted from nature. As being a natural polymer material extracted from algae plants, the alginate fibers have attracted more and more attention. Besides, chitin fibers, soybean fibers, ginger fibers, coffee carbon fibers and polylactic acid fibers extracted from animals and plants are emphasized in A/W 2022. Green energy is the definite way to realize sustainable development. Bio-based products and green energy issues have become the forefront of the global science and technology industry, so bio-based fabric will definitely become an important trend of future fabric development.

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.

The theme Sunlit City is describing the optimistic attitude of urban people and guiding people to consume and think in a positive and rational way. The S/S 2022 focuses on people's inner real requirements and builds a positive mental model which pays attention to sensory experiences, becoming the key emotion trend. In this new season, comfortable natural materials or synthetic fibers are used to replace the highly-cost textures. For example, comfortable blended suiting, luxurious jersey fabric, lustrous duchess satin and subtle cotton blended fabric with minimalist designs and comfortable practical silhouettes can create multi-occasion commuting sets, dresses and tops, bringing a cross-season dressing experience to consumers.

Along with the continuous progress of our society, people are having a rising recognition of environment and health. More eco-friendly and multi-functional fabrics have been the core of S/S 2022 knitted trousers. Natural plant fibers and recycled fibers, such as EVO fibers, Tencel, isatis fibers and regenerated cellulose fibers, can be used to create durable knitted fabrics, which are functional, protective, comfortable and eco-friendly, and skin-friendly, fashionable street dark avant-garde trousers. This report reveals the key fabric trend for men's knitted trousers in S/S 2022 through introduction of EVO terry fabric, double-faced plain knitted fabric, anti-bacteria elastic terry fabric and viscose linen-like knitted fabric.

In this challenging market, people are increasingly focusing on comfortable designs and purchasing strategy that is to buy less but higher-quality products. Natural fabrics and neat design is the key of S/S 2022 infants' knitwear. Neutral color tone which is suitable for all four seasons and can be easily matched up is the trending color for infants' knitwear items. Thus, comfortable, natural and practical knitted fabrics like organic rib knitting, organic nap knitting and jacquard mesh knitting are suitable for cross-season styles and rapidly growing infants, both boys and girls.

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.