With the new trending practical style, consumers are wearing denim items more and more often. New standards of elasticity and performance higher people's expectation toward denim items, especially jeans. S/S 2022 functional fabrics is the key trend to improve the comfort and update the style of daily denim clothing. Thus, this report introduces fabrics like cotton eco-friendly denim, elastic blended denim and high-performance denim which can create the expected women's denim item of S/S 2022.

As the fashion industry is more eco-friendly and brighter, those self-repairing fabrics, new textiles from deconstructing old textiles, and fabrics made of natural plant fibers will also gain increasing attention. In S/S 2022, fabrics will be more technical and greener. Fabric traders and designers will blend with new technologies to awaken new renewable and eco-friendly fabrics, thus further making the fashion industry more technical and greener.

As consumers pay more attention to sustainability and durability, investment should be in functional and durable items, thus responding to "buy less but better" trend. Trans-seasonal, eco-friendly and functional fabrics will be key driving forces of S/S 2022 denim items. Therefore, cold denim, eco-friendly washed denim and plastic wrap denim become key denim fabrics in S/S 2022, for they are comfortable, functional and eco-friendly.

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.

Due to this pandemic, comfort and environmental protection concept promotes consumption. Therefore, designers focus on comfortable and practical designs, and pay attention to sustainability and renewing core styles. Low-impact washing crafts and sustainable fibers co-create chic, practical and eco-friendly basic items. The pursuit of comfort and practicality boosts the development of soft, stretchable and easy-to-care denim items. Knitted denim, highly stretchable denim and trans-seasonal neutral light brown and greyish pastel colors show a growing momentum.

Faced with economic depression in the post-coronavirus era, consumers hope to find a sense of safety in protective clothes, so function of clothes becomes more important. This theme fuses functionality and sustainability with clothes, offering extra comfortable new materials and protective technologies. Therefore, biodegradable designs, creative thermal insulation, smooth performance, restorative fabrics and bio-based fibers bring large potential to people's daily life and become key driving factors in next few years.

In this post-coronavirus era, the comfy home style rises. Based on comfort and sustainability, this theme combines innovation with natural materials. Soft tencel cotton denim, eco-friendly cotton and linen blended denim, washed and re-created denim, and vigorous light-colored denim create novel and durable items. In 2022, we will reevaluate denim in a flexible and creative way.