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.

According to the latest fashion brand runway shows, such as PRADA, Stella McCartney, Valentino, etc., red is the key color of this autumn and winter season. This report selects the most forward-looking High Risk Red and Coral Blush in glossy fabrics. High Risk Red is passionate and unrestrained, creating an elegant and confident female image, while Coral Blush is moderately saturated in tone.

In denim apparel, trims and accessories play a crucial role and can be categorized into two main directions: practical functionality and exquisite luxury. Denim-specific trims, such as the tack button, brand label, and rivets, serve practical purposes and contribute to the functionality of jeans. The tack button secures the waistband, the label showcases the brand and size information, and the rivets enhance the durability of the jeans. In addition to functional trims, decorative accessories like round rivets, rhinestone beads, metal zippers, and chains are used to add a metallic luster and create a sense of luxurious craftsmanship in denim garments. They provide decoration, visual appeal, and a touch of sophistication. These decorative trims are an important trend in denim accessories design, elevating the overall aesthetic and adding a refined touch to the denim pieces.

The leather label on jeans serves not only as a label to indicate the brand name, logo, and model, but also as a highly attractive design element that can greatly enhance the appeal of the jeans. Leather labels used in denim clothing are typically made from materials such as calfskin or synthetic leather, and play a very important role in adding unique style and taste to the clothing, as well as increasing consumer recognition and loyalty to the brand. They have also become one of the finer details that denim enthusiasts pay attention to.

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.

Monogram and logo are the timeless elements that inherit and pay homage to the brand DNA. Monogram jacquard is the most economic and direct treatment to improve the value of fabric and garment. Recreatable same-tone jacquard will be the mainstream. Stitch skills and innovative layouts are diversified to enrich the textures. Post finishes such as embroidery, printing and two-tone overdyeing offer different appearances on the same fabric.

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.

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.

"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 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.

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.

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 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.

Due to the pandemic, urban life gets dull. But youngsters are still fearless and shuttle between fashion gatherings. They keep passionate hope and promote the vitality of the city. In the post-coronavirus era, fabrics in the new season are both funky and protective.

2022 faces new challenges of wellness and economy. Resources waste, people's focus on wellness, and the attention to handicrafts drive industries to innovate. The textile industry is no exception. For the masses, we find home life prompts thrift, so that designers begin to focus on redesigning waste fabrics. As a result of handicrafts and decoration trend, rugged relief and natural weaving textures become key fabric trends. In the post-coronavirus era, protection will be a key standard for fabrics. Healing copper, silver and other metal fibers give S/S fabrics a new function and appearance. In addition, ice dyeing rises and renews previous tie-dye, so fabrics develop towards a natural, eco-friendly and harmonious direction. This report will center on fabrics to conclude keywords for S/S 2020 fabric trend in terms of fibers, functions, crafts, colors and texture changes. The series of reports about S/S 2022 key words will continue.