Apricot Gelato is selected from the theme Sunlit City. The warm and gentle interlace sunlight releases the life and mental space which the urban city is longing for. The urban commuting style is presented through minimalist and New Scandi color tones led by positive psychology and optimistic awareness. The changing density of knitting is the main method to present the interlace light and shade effect on women's knitwear. The hollow-out textured pattern and transparent silk are used to create the transparent effect. With the help of more fitted silhouette, it can redefine the strong and independent image of modern urban women.

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.

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 swanky youth of new era are growing up in this 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.

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.

When the warm wind of S/S blows all over the coast, the children begin their happiest holiday life of the year. Those free loose clothes is deeply loved by kids during the island living. The skin-friendly cotton-linen textiles perfectly fit the natural life of sea, sunlight and beach.

People are searching for a peaceful land, and the word Island comes from Isolation which means it is a place isolated from lands and it is a peaceful normality in the journey. Chasing for the footprints of time, the pure island takes people back to the rural style. Local techniques, ancient culture and sustainable living attitude allow people to get rid of the worries in the reality and advocate for the isolated emotional connection with the natural balance. The sustainable internal circulation, new bionic neutral colors, natural materials and handicraft community provide flaws and local styles. Thus, this report will present the independent, relaxing and self-sufficient island life style through introducing plain natural cotton fabric, raw textured linen fabric, soft resort textural fabric and paradise pastel denim.

Naive and naughty kids create a contrastive but funny visual feeling in the retro space through their sweet and arch images. Graceful scenes and lively colors make the series fantastic, and the historical arrangement and props inject a delicate retro sense into the scene.

The swanky youth of new era are growing up in this 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. The swanky youth are exploring themselves and sending out the wild power of new generation.

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.

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.

Under the theme background of establishing positive Mental Model, Sunlit City describes the optimistic mental condition of urban people. Power of Insensitivity helps people recover from failures and wounds. The Self Awakening sends out Soft Power, which make people adapt occasions and characters quickly. The Doubly Circular Economy keeps us in the Optimistic New Normal and a positive system. This theme uses relaxing New Scandi to underline the importance of Refined Upgrade. And Power Suit is more and more popular among commuting clothes. Cross-border items present people's dressing demand of occasion switching.

Strange Twinning interprets strangers with different cultures and living environments understand and resonate each other. Globalization connects people with mixed identities, different backgrounds, status and cultures, and they establish a sense of identity through preferences, experiences, appearances. And we call it a hybrid age. The cultural shock brings a crisis of hybrid identity to the younger generation. They are busy with virtual social networks with an identity of private-sphere uploader, express a "natural vagrancy" attitude, pay for their hobbies and ideas, and become the major consumer group of coterie economy. Big data allows them to meet their doppelgangers, connects them who have different subcultures and aesthetics, and forms various interpersonal cultures. They are imaginative and creative. They privately customize their own styles such as "fair-skinned, young and slim" or "sweet, beautiful and quirky", break boundaries between interpersonal cultures through content socialization and inversely influences 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.

Close-to-nature trend and suburb trip change 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. Optimistic aborigines are all in awe of local resources, and the self-sufficient internal recycle drives the explosive growth of paradise resort and brings simple new neutrals. Brands support handcraft communities to renew coastline designs. New normal dressing of paradise spirit creates a soft resort business style and a plain feminine casual style, nourishing natural and peaceful designs.

S/S 2022 Theme Forecast