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.

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.

Along with the developing and updating textile industry, the number of rational consumers is continuously rising. The practical items are more popular among consumers. As one of the most important items in S/S womenswear, the practical shirts mainly using soft and bright colors to enhance the visual effect, and the application of new functional fibers brings a fresh and enjoyable dressing feeling. New lotus fiber striped fabric, Tentea fiber checked fabric, elegant milk fiber striped fabric, non-iron liquid ammonia fabric and eco-friendly bamboo fiber fabric show the innovative fabric trend for S/S 2022 women's shirt.

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.

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.

Functional, protective and practical style prevails in the era full of uncertainties, and a sustainable lifestyle is welcomed. In A/W 21/22, kids' puffa jackets should be protective and versatile, multi-scene and multifunctional. The focus is on recycled, protective and eco-friendly durable fabrics. Therefore, metallic protective fabric, recycled technical fabric, ripstop honeycomb shape memory fabric and Teflon coated fabric are more popular with consumers, ideal to create A/W 21/22 premium kids' puffa jackets and outerwear.

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.

Outdoor sportswear carries the enthusiasm for embracing nature and challenging selves, so outdoor sportswear should be waterproof, windproof and warm. Due to this pandemic, people are more eager to live in harmony with nature and become more curious about outdoors. With the development of science and technology, outdoor sports fabrics are more functional and ergonomic. "Outdoor+" era has arrived. In S/S 2022, outdoor sports fabrics advocate eco-friendly and sustainable idea to be both technical and eco-friendly.

Due to the change of lifestyles, sustainability and environmental protection become the focus of infants' wear. Therefore, comfort and sustainability will be a key trend for infants' knitted fabrics in A/W 21/22, aiming to make items more practical, relaxing and durable. Fabrics with single component and eco-friendly natural materials will be key designs of this trend. Bamboo fiber fabric, seersucker, comfortable quilted fabric and brushed sweatshirt fabric are multifunctional and trans-seasonal, fit for A/W 21/22 infants' wear.

With the development of our society, sustainability remains the focus of consumers and brands. People pursue a healthy lifestyle and have a deeper understanding of how comfortable and functional knitted fabrics affect people's health. For the textile industry, it is a key consideration of how to transform fiber into fashion in a sustainable way, how to lower the impact on the environment with natural fibers, and how to realize a chain of functional composite fibers and renewable resources through digital technologies. Therefore, this theme centers on DuPont Sorona fibers, modal fibers, healthy energy fibers, cellulose acetate, mercerized faux-linen knit and lycra fibers, so as to provide a green and healthy lifestyle which is also the crucial driving force for the textile industry in next few years.

As turbulent factors and unsettling emotions increase, Wandering in the Wilderness concept and the rise of outdoor fashion exude strong appeal. Let's start a soul-touching journey, escape from trivial life, and encounter the unknown poetry in the distance. With a core of puffa jackets, this theme analyzes functional and chic fabrics for puffa jackets to offer protection to outdoors.

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.

Escape from the pressure of the city, embark on a journey to the distance, and find a blend of youth and nature. As Fernando Pessoa wrote in The Book of Disquiet: I would like to live a different life in a faraway land. We roam freely under the sky, search the comfortable shore of the deep heart. Every time we set out, it is to meet a better yourself. Whether it is the original intention of human, or the call of nature, the outdoor world has become a desirable spiritual place. Data show that outerwear made of recycled polyester in the UK and the US grow sharply year on year. The exploration of new protective materials and forward-looking design is getting more and more attention from brands and designers.