Ribbons and strings play an important role in the design of sportswear, serving purposes of practicality, decoration, and brand recognition. Designers focus on innovating ribbon and string materials and textures, while also experimenting with new shapes and structures, bringing more fashion elements and personalized choices to sportswear. This article provides inspiration and ideas for the decorative and functional development of sportswear design.

This article on men's trousers focuses on the popular trends of fashionable leisure and cool street style. It combines current popular fabric textures and provides applicable fabric directions for the development of ready-to-wear companies' 2024/25 autumn/winter men's trousers, as well as serving as a reference guide for fabric companies' fabric displays.

With the continuous development of virtual technology, the fashion industry is also constantly innovating. Virtual technology has brought more imaginative space for fashion designers. Every fashion brand is exploring more intelligent and personalized "digital fashion", including wearable devices and virtual reality glasses. The introduction of these fashionable technological elements has given fashion more possibilities and fields, and has also sparked more interest and curiosity among consumers, bringing more possibilities for the development of the fashion industry.

'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.

In this era that goes against the mainstream, we can see cultural rebellion everywhere in the world. Lo-Fi is a largely music-centric aesthetic that utilizes muted tones and mundane imagery to evoke a feeling of calm and nostalgia. SD(Standard Definition) Recollect brings the flashback of classic moments and pays homage to the charm of golden era.

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.

Mixing western aesthetics with offbeat Deed spirits, pioneering designers build a bridge between surrealism with mysticism through weird and ridiculous expressions. All the abstract existences are strange yet charming. The consumers of Deed are defined to be strange, niche, and avant-garde. Knitted & gauze fabrics, PVC & translucent fabrics, lustrous fabrics, and jacquard & embossed fabrics are the major directions. Lightweight, comfort, and lustrous textures are the developing points for fabrics. Bodysuits, shirts, trousers, outerwear, and suits are the items to watch.

Faustian deed is a contract between people and demon. The enjoyment of illusions reflects modern teenagers’ growing appetite for uniqueness and personality. Focusing on the theme drives of Deed, the position of consumers is defined to be weird, pioneering, and avant-garde; lace & gauze, ethereal lightweight, rippled luster, and 3D trims are the fabric points to watch; dresses, bodysuits, skirts, coordinates, and outerwear are the major styles for the thematic fabrics of Deed.

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.

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, gradient gloss, and 3D embellishments to the forefront. Focusing on visual effects and fun performance, the thematic fabrics of Metaverse are mainly applied to produce suits, dresses, knitted base layers, and outerwear.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.