Under the theme of Suspense Drowning, this report explores the lifestyle and spiritual world of contemporary vibrant girls. They carry a longing for fun around them, hoping to break free from the shackles of order and self-imprisonment. Through the Internet, they create innovative variations of nostalgia and future technology, resulting in a dual-variation atmosphere, pursuing fashion self-expression in different ways. This report explores the diversity of art and design that meets the market demand through themes such as Return of Y2K, Network Vulgarity, Fantastic Tech, Unknown Energy, and Graceful Lace.

The Uproar Moments embodies a lifestyle that combines sports with fashion, emphasizing the social attributes of Athchic style through "lightweight" and "potential matching". The integration of sports, art, music and other social activities allows everyone to find their own passions and participate in public life in a constructive way. By uplifting activities and entertainment, diverse cross-border gameplay is explored, tapping into the powerful cohesion and healing power between altruistic individuals and groups. Resources may be depleted, but only culture can keep people closely connected and thriving. Always sincere, always passionate.

This report focuses on the theme of Visualized Space and explores the lifestyle and spiritual world of contemporary young pioneers. Through meditation, the report aims to make reality gradually become unreal, breaks the visual space in our consciousness, and reflects on ourselves, whether it be calmly doing nothing, returning to our original nature, or creating new meanings. The report is based on three modes of thinking: "stillness", "meaningfulness", and "creation", and explores the diverse art and design that caters to the market through following topics.

The restart of travelling and the rising concepts of “Time Billionaire” uplift the way of vacation, and give inspiration to a reversed holiday that has no plans. We dominate the time with ease and explore the pure charm of journey. The immersive vacation satisfies the appetite for the new ‘migrant’ tourism. The healing and hopeful spectrum of sunset is fused with practicality, outdoor and midsummer gardening. The fluid lifestyles allow us to spend more time on travel, and stimulate a journey of imagination.

COSMOS perfectly fuses the sense of technology with futurism to improve the expression of avant-garde street fashion and urban techwear. The evolving of technology foresees the VR universe. Virtual vision, metallic texture, blurred colors and tensive letters are the main creative inspirations that exude a mysterious, unknown and bizarre atmosphere.

Blend Boundary draws natural touches and plant imagery from the nature, and pursues a fashion aesthetic with advanced textures and modern technologies. Natural Epiphany imagines a zero-carbon future through digital media that blur real and virtual. The fusion of nature, technology and neo-chinoiserie presents virtual flowers, bionic textures, digital rendering and fuzzy flowers.

The core of Lagom pursues the balance of life. Living just right in every aspect satisfies contemporary consumers’ requirement for an extraordinary taste. Slow down the living pace and return to the essence of life. Staying close to the nature soothes the restless mind. The pattern expressions and arts drawn from the balanced variation in life interpret the colorful modern aesthetics.

During the pursuit of light, the light with temperature affects emotions. The color language of halo explores the mental experiences as ‘awareness’ and ‘perception’ with an experimental mind. Artistic wanderers in cities subvert the common rules of art, fashion, and life through their senses of humor and playfulness. Dopamine palette establishes a positive mental tone. Uncertain economics and fragile humanity raise concerns about the future, thus people want to live in nature for spiritual calmness. Crisis awareness brings mysticism and the issues about balance to the forefront. Mysticism stimulates the spirituality inside. Urban escapism reaches a perfect balance of individuals, spirits, and the natural world.

No matter how the time changes, the clothing in the old-time wardrobe remains timeless. The revival of the nostalgic emotion fuses natural elements with memories to present a retro vacation style that connects modern and the past. Retro Time creates a healing holiday atmosphere for busy urban teenagers and composes a casual summer rhapsody. With the memories about the passionate and romantic California sunlight, we reinterpret the highlights and charm of that golden era.

The penetration of diverse cultures has created more and more dream makers. The cognition of the young generation is gradually being clearer. This evolution process is continuously switching and transforming in the dream to figure out the real and unique ego. We dream fantasy but fail in reality. So we have to build a resilient castle in the real world when we constructing fairy tales in the dream. Those evolved dream makers can better include this fantastic yet real world and accept the imperfect but unique selves.

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 reach to the empathy and resonance. The blurred boundary between reality and virtuality creates these theme pattern trend, which satisfies contemporary consumers' depend on the virtual environment. Besides, the application of higher technology can provide a more eco-friendly and sustainable effect.

Heart elements are used widely in the pattern designs of S/S 2022. Single heart-shape, psychedelic heart-shape, weird heart-shape, mixed heart-shape, dark heart-shape, artistic 3D heart-shape and some heart-shaped art paintings. The multiple techniques enrich the pattern design and make it more convenient for designers to apply on collection.

People are searching for a peaceful land, and island is a place isolated from the continent and is a peaceful normality in the journey. Influenced by the revive natural living, abstract seaside scenery and casual hand-draw bionic patterns create a gentle vacation style. Self-sufficient islanders perfectly fit the natural plant patterns and create the delicate and plain beach style, increasing the original tonality of the whole theme.

The theme Sunlit City tells us that urban people select Soft Power to face the life condition in a positive way after experiencing the failures and wounds in S/S 2022. The interlaced light and shadow and colorful stonewalls. The sunshine permeates every corner of the city from the clouds. People bask in the sun, and the warmth penetrates into every cell of the city. When all experiences are tempered into gentleness, the power of true is restored and constructed inwardly. By building positive mental models, people can extend their sense of optimism to all aspects of their daily lives. Time and space no longer restrict the pace of mankind, and human emotional interaction will be greatly satisfied. Just like the sunlit city, we replace complexity and negativity with optimism, bringing out various lives. The urban scenery with interlaced light and shadow, the collage art which combines multi-media graphics and text and neat flowing whirlpool are selected to be the patterns under this theme. Rigorous and colorful, regular yet changeable.

The theme Strange Twinning demonstrates the mutual understanding and soul resonance between strangers from different cultures and conditions. Flower is the core element of this theme, and there are six directions to present various flowers, monochrome vines, cut flowers, ink stained watercolor, fun bouquet, weird sweetheart and summer picnic. This report brings new design directions to S/S 2022 Strange Twinning theme patterns.

Time is flowing and invisible, but it does exist. Fashion is a mirror of time and cultural change, closely connecting fashion, politics, religion, society and art. Each piece of clothing has its own time mark, and crosses its time to make a contrast with current fashion trends. JW Anderson, integrates the classical painting into the new season to show similar fashion spanning eras. The vintage square collar and cape-like big turn-down collar are also used by many brands, interpreting the combination of classics and fashion. The past and the present are folded, in line with this theme.

In 18th-century France, a style amazed the world with its gorgeous colors and complicated designs. That is Chinoiserie, expressing Europeans' imagination for the oriental culture. It is the Europeanized Chinese style, full of mystery, romance and adventure.

Social changes transform consumers' habits, and necessity economy brings simple durable products to the spotlight. Influenced by the COVID-19, "less is more" life concept has been a must. Modular all-year design will appeal to comfort-driven consumers. Home will be the haven for existentialists to soothe themselves. Modern lines and geometric patterns balance the need for safety via their simple and pure beauty. Tones covering designs and arts tell the peaceful long confession.

Artistic hand-painting brings new visual aesthetics. Large-scale color-blocking optimizes details through brushstrokes, and adds fun. Unique hand-drawn patterns are quite recognizable, fit to be spring and summer patterns of designer brands.

The illustration of big color blocks gains much attention. Simple color blocks turn into fun patterns through ingenious combinations. Seeking fun in the ordinary is a little happiness in life. The pattern which focuses on trifles in daily life enters the public view.

As free and natural lifestyle gains popularity. BoBos blend bourgeois qualities with Bohemian freewill and artistic aesthetics, bringing a perfect holiday for S/S 2021. We will go back to the 1970s and recall the good old days. We not only prefer the retro 70s style, but also celebrate the 70s environmental life concept. We become gardeners of the earth, and create a beautiful holiday. This theme connects retro clothing, waste fabrics, and environmentally-friendly crafts, and emphasize pattern design through sustainable ways like recycling, renovation and extending the popularity cycle