Material Outlook: Textiles 2022
Published 01 September 2022
Textiles form a huge part of our daily lives and need to be increasingly hardworking, geared towards sustainability, efficiency, comfort and wellbeing. We round up the key trends and innovations from across the fabric landscape – covering fibres, manufacturing, new technologies and pattern stories in fashion, activewear, home, interiors and transport.
Smarter Textiles
Home Comforts
Textile Narratives
Sustainability Round-Up
Concerns about climate change, energy consumption, and health and wellbeing are driving developments within smart and performance textiles, resulting in more efficient, responsive and comfortable products for users. Meanwhile, digital technologies are advancing manufacturing.
Concerns about climate change, energy consumption, and health and wellbeing are driving developments within smart and performance textiles, resulting in more efficient, responsive and comfortable products for users. Meanwhile, digital technologies are advancing manufacturing.
Textiles form a fundamental part of our homes and built environments, and with ongoing periods of anxiety and uncertainty, their role is becoming increasingly important. Notions of wellbeing, warmth, comfort, ambience and creative expression are impacting the product landscape.
Storytelling and backstories are dominant themes affecting print, pattern and material choices, as designers explore textile heritage, cultural histories and decorative arts. Other pressing narratives – like industrial waste and sexism – are translated into thought-provoking details and design cues.
We spotlight the latest strategies, processes and material innovations geared towards improving the textile industry’s environmental impact – from regenerative agriculture and alternative dyestuffs, to dissolvable yarns and greener textile finishes.
Material Outlook: Textiles 2022
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