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.

The swanky youth of this new era are growing up in the global information explosion environment. And the cultural conflicts between East and West promote the development of various community cultures. They use the fearless attitude of extreme youth to present the classic charm of street culture. Art forms like graffiti, skateboarding and rap are just like their mother tongue and become the manifestos of self-expression. Swanky youth use their fashion fetish to demonstrate the endless possibilities of wild growing and break the gender border to create a new scene of gender fluidity. Vintage faded knit fabric interprets the fearless color of youth. Retro stripe-check fabric salutes to the street culture. Coated nylon and protective cotton blend fabric protect the free and reckless youth through the comfortable functionality.

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.

With people's rising attention to health, the fabrics with peaceful and comfortable property become more popular. Comfort, health and functionality will be the key developing trend of S/S 2022 kidswear knitted fabric. Natural and outdoor elements can also be applied to improve the market value. Thus, natural knitted fabric, bright wide-stripe fabric and mushroom printed fabric will be the noteworthy fabrics in S/S 2022.

Sustainable design is the new ecological concept of S/S 2022 denim industry. Eco-friendly and comfortable denim fabrics prefer environmental protection materials to satisfy consumers' expectation of sustainable fashion. Eco-friendly fiber denim, degradable synthetic fiber denim and anti-bacterial denim provide consumers with more more practical and functional denim styles with outstanding dressing experience, which have attracted the eyesight of those consumers who pay attention to environment protection and sustainable fashion.

The suburb trip changes the way of traveling and inspire the longing for cottagecore style. In this era of new normal, we hope to find a peaceful pure land, and the isolated island life provides a way for us to relax and heal ourselves. A balanced and natural life attitude contributes to a plain and casual trend, expresses our spirit of paradise and promotes the new aesthetics inspired by crafts, nature and classic elements. Natural cotton and linen textiles are made of handicraft and farming, and the classic practical work clothes has evolved into more comfortable styles. The sea breeze and green plants of the island evoke romantic aesthetic colors.

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 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.

Comfort and wear resistance are still the most important elements in S/S 2022 menswear after the epidemic. For outerwear and trench coats this season, applying minimalist styles, warm and healing colors, plain and durable textures is the key to satisfy people's physic and mental dressing demand. Thus, this report will present the important cotton fabric trend for S/S 2022 menswear through introducing lightweight organic cotton, triple-proof double-faced twill and RT draped fabric.

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.

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.

Under the trend of multi-occassion clothing, S/S 2022 women's suits and trench coats underline the comfort and also improve the wholeness and style fluency to avoid wrong clothing collocation. The new design of S/S 2022 applies texture and tailoring changes to upgrade and update these items. Designers select the fabrics which combine classic suits and practical styles, such as acetate-like glossy fabric, matte plain blended fabric and functional chemical fiber fabric, which make high-adaptability suits become more important.

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.

Lace is an everlasting popular topic in the fashion world. Lace has attracted countless women and designers in thousand years for its unique charm and exquisite craft. In the medieval times, delicate lace is the symbol of power and position. We called women who could perfectly present the beauty of lace charming ladies. The traditional lace endows women with romance, nobility or sexuality. However, modern lace injects a more diversified temperament and character into the fabric. Different from the solemn and gorgeous traditional lace, the new-look lace is more suitable for urban women. This report mainly introduces the lace which fits S/S 2022 womenswear. Bionic embroidery lace, sequined embroidery lace, eyelet embroidery lace, modern tasseled lace and linen plain lace make the fabric more diversified and outline women's various temperaments.

In this challenging market, people are increasingly focusing on comfortable designs and purchasing strategy that is to buy less but higher-quality products. Natural fabrics and neat design is the key of S/S 2022 infants' knitwear. Neutral color tone which is suitable for all four seasons and can be easily matched up is the trending color for infants' knitwear items. Thus, comfortable, natural and practical knitted fabrics like organic rib knitting, organic nap knitting and jacquard mesh knitting are suitable for cross-season styles and rapidly growing infants, both boys and girls.

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.

For S/S 2022 women's knitted garments, it is a key point that fashion moves toward elevated simplicity. Exquisite details become the top priority. Brand-new functions and fabrics create elevated yet basic styles, and functionality and protection underline an elevated feel. For core knits, organic fabrics and eco-friendly fabrics are worth investment, and low-impact natural dyestuff is used. Therefore, this report focuses on polylactic acid fiber fabric, Sorona® fabric and one-sided three-yarn loop fabric.

The quick-paced urban life makes consumers tired of monotonous products, and they hope to meet something undiscovered, fun and novel. This report reinterprets fabric patterns to highlight the romantic young lady style which will be a new trend for S/S 2022 womenswear fabrics. Flora and flowers bring beauty and hope to anxious and stressful consumers. New crafts such as (clipping and carving, jacquard) are combined with printed fabrics to present artistic and fine expressions on garments. The fresh quality soothes and comforts our restless souls.

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.