This "hybrid age" connects people with mixed identities, different backgrounds, status and cultures. The young generation look at the world through their immature ethereal dream, and meet another unique themselves. Although they are strangers, they have connected spirits. Isolated from the public aesthetics, they are making selections between sub-culture and mainstream. Their anxiety of "mixed identity recognition" and expectation of being approved by the mainstream cause the experiences including anxiety and hope, pain and joy. The theme Strange Twinning applies handcrafted decorations and reuses wasted synthetic materials to underline the "sweet, beautiful and quirky" style through mix&match. Thus, this report takes sweet stretchy lace fabric, colorful handmade blend fabric, girly sheeny chemical fiber fabric and ethereal sheer fabric as the main point, inversely influencing the mainstream by their interpersonal cultures through content socialization and private domain customization.

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 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.

Absolutely, suits are just like business cards to men. And the convenient versatility makes suits become the first choice in S/S. Different from traditional worsted fabrics, the new-type multi-functional worsted fabric contains delicate quality with anti-fouling and anti-oil property. Applying anti-ultraviolet polyester fibers on regular suits fabric can effectively prevent human body from UV damage. Quiet and elegant checked fabric is the best to present gentleman character. These three new fabrics are suitable for S/S 2022 men's light-commercial suits, and bring comfortable dressing experiences in both commercial and leisure occasions.

S/S 2022 men's shirts put emphasis on creating classic practicality and occasion switchable function. The light commercial casual fabric is updating its tactile and functionality based on the traditional texture to fit people's higher requirement of living quality. Soft comfortable and durable eco-friendly functional blended fabrics are recommended. This report will present the key fabric trend of future S/S men's shirts through introduction of bamboo fiber satin drill, milk fiber stripes and Egyptian cotton twill fabric.

The unusual 2020 is coming to an end, but the coronavirus is likely to coexist with humans for a long time. This pandemic affects people's mind subtly. After this pandemic, people are eager to break the boundary between various occasions. Commute wear is no longer limited to working occasions, but can switch between office, leisure and home occasions. In S/S 2022, menswear and womenswear functional fabrics and eco-friendly renewable fabrics become heated in the textile industry and will be top priorities in 2022. In addition to inherent attributes of fibers, the emphasis is laid on protecting human body and reducing pollution.

In the era of new normal, people are eager to find a peaceful and pure land. The isolated and self-sufficient island lifestyle is an ideal choice, like the paradise. The healing power of sea island comforts us. Island resources are made full use of to form an internal circulation system, restore a balanced connection with nature and dig into the ancient imagination and power of instinct. This report starts from island impression, advocates a natural and balanced life attitude and promotes the plain cotton and linen fashion. Soothing and plain key colors express our spirit of paradise. The new aesthetics, with craft fabrics, natural colors and eco-friendly as core concepts, reveals the color trend for S/S 2022 women's cotton and linen fabrics.

Practical and classic shirts drive the semi-formal leisure trend. In S/S 2022, shirts incline to be practical and multifunctional. Stripes, as a key highlight, bring low-key yet practical appearances, fit both traditional and avant-garde shirts and allow shirts to switch between telecommuting and commuting. Soft new blends are chosen. Therefore, white cotton fabrics, refined pinstriped fabrics and multicolored striped fabrics will be a key shirt fabric worth investment and offer comfort to S/S 2022 men's and women's shirts.

After this pandemic, China market ushers in a new era of outdoors, and a new round of men's trousers fabrics will rise in S/S 2022. This new lifestyle drives people to explore new journey and prompts the heat of urban relaxed sports. Viennese photographer Horacio Reyes Páe returns to his hometown in Punta Ballena, Uruguay. He captures the sea island in his childhood memory and finds tranquility and peace. Therefore, protective fabrics are favored by designers, becoming hot fabrics for S/S 2022 men's outdoor athleisure trousers. The PU dust-free knitted fabric, stretchy antibacterial knitted fabric and SUPPLEX functional fabric will be top priorities, worth key attention.

As a fashion trend vane, colors emotionally resonate with people and reflect the background of contemporary life. S/S 2022 women's outerwear needs optimistic, healing and comforting colors. Description of a dreamland beyond the world allows people to struggle with the past no longer, build new visions and value systems and accept the present as a new normal. Freedom and optimism work with fashionable textiles to inject novelty and bring comfy garments to future consumers.

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.

As people long for practicality and versatility, comfort becomes more important. In S/S 2022, women's sets shift their focus from fitted blazers to loose and casual silhouettes, becoming more comfortable and daily. Soft fabrics are used, for they fit both leisure style and formal commute, including exquisite cotton and linen, double-faced four-way stretchy fabrics, lightweight acetate fabrics and matte acetate-like fabrics. Their soft tactility further drives comfort, and trans-season and durability become a key trend for S/S 2022 women's sets.

As people have a deeper understanding of how the environment affects human health, sustainability remains the focus of consumers and brands. 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 traceable recycle and supply chain through digital technologies. Therefore, this theme centers on organic cotton fibers, color-grown cotton, regenerative organic farming, vegetable dyeing, slow handicraft and recycling concept to imagine a green lifestyle. They are also key driving forces for textile industry in the coming years.

In the post-coronavirus era, people focus on society and environmental protection. Sustainability becomes a major concern, brings about sustainable innovation in all fields, and leads to changes of our lifestyles. Degradable and sustainable cotton and linen fabrics are natural and eco-friendly, quite popular. Therefore, this theme centers on raw organic linen, natural comfy cotton, renewable check fabric, and casual blended striped fabrics, bringing a natural and comfortable style.

As our daily life is gradually recovering, people begin to cherish the hard-won freedom. Fabrics which display theme concepts and the brand's style work with latest patterns to reflect the simplest happiness and balance the clothing style and the wearer's individuality. Therefore, this theme focuses on the combination of S/S womenswear fabrics (including cotton, linen, silk, chiffon and blended fibers) with different patterns, and also analyzes trends, crafts and colors to display the novel and positive fashion.

Trench coats originate from military overcoats during World War I, and leave immortal classics in the past century. As consumers pursue a quality life and trans-seasonal, versatile products, trench coats, as a functional fashion item, gain much attention in terms of materials. In the new season, genderless trans-seasonal trench coat fabrics include densely woven cotton, worsted linen check fabrics, bio-based coated protective fabrics and soft tencel fabrics.

With the development and improvement of technologies and human cognition, the young generation in the future will be gradually moving away from the traditional rural life and moving towards a more delicate, orderly, comfortable and intelligent lifestyle and spiritual pursuit. They are willing to co-exist with nature, more aware of environmental protection, and able to build their own artistic aesthetics and perfectly fuse it with nature. Therefore, key colors derived from 2022 palette pair with eco-friendly cotton and linen fabrics to present a fashion feast.

As people pay more attention to environmental protection and sustainability, natural, eco-friendly and comfortable infants' wear will gain more attention. Sustainable fabrics, natural undyed fibers, eco-friendly linen and organic cotton will be key fabrics for infants' wear in S/S 2022. Muted colors pair with original textures, pastoral checks, British cutwork embroidery and floral fabrics to create time-tested infants' items.

At present, we are faced with both economic and climate challenges. Utility, comfort and versatility become the top priority of clothes. Catering to people's high demand for life quality, the leisure resort style keeps prevailing. The power of design boosts our mind, emotion and body. Mood-boosting colors and textures renew men's leisure shirts, rhythmic stripes, seersucker textures and dazzling checks in S/S 2022, displaying the colorful style and individuality.

Due to COVID-19, people have to stay at home, so they long for outdoor holidays more. Besides, comfort will be key. As an important item for spring and summer, shirting is in bright and vigorous colors for a pleasing feel. Creative women's shirting in 2020 spring covers renewed striped fabrics, fresh and vigorous check fabrics, distressed multicolored sun-faded check fabrics and highly saturated artistic printed fabrics.