Looking at the A/W 20/21 catwalks, the voluminous architectural H-line is influencing A/W 20/21 men's business leisure suits to a large extent. The H-line suit with shoulder pads and a lengthened silhouette reflects suits are developing towards the young leisure style. The wrapped plackets, wide-shoulder, double-breasted three-button and peak lapels reveal a neat architectural feeling.

With the popularity of vintage trend, elements of the Victorian period such as exaggerated puff sleeves, the turn-down collar and high-waist yoke return back in a powerful momentum. Influenced by sustainability, organic natural colors become the mainstream. Simple details highlight the fabric and quality sense. Detachable bib and the loose silhouette are practical and popular.

Extraterrestrial Horizon is one of A/W 20/21 theme color trends released by POP in July 2019, reflecting in this chaotic era blended art has a great appeal. British designer Paul Smith brings a street feel to gentlemen in highrises, which means classic mix is a new black for businessmen's wear. Time-tested looks and mixed design give suits a street chic touch. We respect classics but not replicate theme. We recreate them with modern forms. In the four fashion weeks which just end, the art is awakened, injecting the artistic fashion into the classic quality sense.

Extraterrestrial Horizon is one of A/W 20/21 theme color trends released by POP in July 2019. It continues the journey to probe into the unknown world from a multi-dimensional perspective. In the vast universe, humans are not alone. In 2020, 51 years after the first moon landing, human exploration of the universe has never ceased, and digital technology inspires design concepts of the remote space. Space exploration becomes a hot topic again. This new season, futurism mixes with outdoor tech to explore extraterrestrial vision in a fresh angle. Futuristic design presents a mixed palette, featuring a sports and futuristic style. Digital technology inspires design concepts from distant time and space. Colors take reference of outer planets, meteorites and interstellar light beams. Apple Green, Canary Green, Hazelnut, Vista Blue become base tones, combining with dark colors such as Andorra, French Roast and Dress Blues to keep balance, interpreting an interstellar journey where futurism meets with technology.

With coffee in hand and wearing elevated business casual garments, men walk on the busy city streets. They enjoy the urban life, but are eager to integrate into the city. They appear languid, but are determined to find themselves. They are into the society, but still are calm urban bystanders.

With the awakening of women's self-consciousness and the change of social status, modern women can accumulate wealth instead of relying on men. They are aware of the importance of economic and ideological independence. Like enchanting roses, women are attractive yet thorny. The free will, wild vitality and tough quality shine out in history, exuding the natural beauty, which contributes to a more delicate, sensual and feminine style.

The unique taste of engraving and wood endows woodcut with independent artistic value and status in Chinese and foreign art history. Woodcut has visual plane aesthetics and pure beauty. It also has the intermittent process of artistic expression, the sum of artistic results, the aesthetics of print art. For professionals, the woodcut has a unique feeling and vibe compared with other painting types. With the help of modern technique and theme, woodcut adds an elegant feel to fashion brands.

Since Chen Caixia founded Shiatzy Chen in 1971, she has always insisted on the Chinese style, even in the era when the public pursued European and American trends. In A/W 2021 show, Shiatzy Chen deconstructs and reorganizes the traditional Chinese elements and western traditional objects, displaying the traditional culture in a young way.

Natural disasters and economic turbulence have caused a restless feeling, and induces rebellious and illogical artistic expression. The mysterious, rebellious and bizarre surrealism clearly emphasizes that the reality controlled by reason and logic is not real, and that only the combination of dream and reality is absolutely real and absolutely objective. In A/W 21/22, luxurious colors fight against the uncertain times. The Night Fantasy escapes from the reality with illogical light and shadow, and surpasses the ordinary natural colors. Microworld explores dreams of plants and find the rebellious thoughts of them. The macro natural landscape accumulates in billions of years of destruction and rebirth, and has the most primitive instinct of life. In A/W 21/22, natural colors will be more tensile.

In Pre-Fall 2021, different from emphasizing comfort in previous seasons, the knitted set returns back with a refined and fine style. Influenced by the surrealism, design elements blended with knitted items in the 1930s, so the elegant and individual set appeared at that time. Although the knitwear set is simple, it well combines female elegance with independence. In Pre-Fall 2021, the knitwear set will pay more attention to the well-fitting lines. The comfortable and elastic knitted panel makes the style waisted and inclusive. The smartly used melange yarns and redesigned classic patterns renew and rejuvenate the retro knitwear set, and create refined, simple and modern sets.

Paisley pattern has a long history. It originates in ancient Babylon and flourishes in Persia and India. It is said to come from the leaves of The Tree of Life in Hinduism, which is Bodhi leaf or the date leaf. This iconic pattern, with its hidden messages and foggy symbolism, has come a long way. It travels from east to west along the Silk Road, decorates the headbands of cowboys and cyclists, and is accepted by 19th-century Bohemia. Then it gets more famous thanks to the Beatles, and becomes the symbol of rock and roll.

Recreated Classic Art is one of A/W 20/21 theme color trends released by POP in September 2019. Recreated Classic Art focuses on the classic art in the past, and explores how to reinterpret classic art in a contemporary way to make it more suitable for the future. It emphasizes awakening the classics, advocates respecting rather than copying the classics, and subverts the classical art with the modern expression form. Exquisite look, retro painting pattern, and classic color proportion take root in the fashion field more firmly, bringing strong retro genes for innovative designs.

H+ is one of A/W 20/21 theme color trends released by POP in September 2019. Survival, need and extreme desire for self-expression are driving humans to adapt to the next phrase of evolution, and transhumanism (H+) comes into being. Stephen Hawking predicted that a superhuman race superior to the average humans in terms of intelligence, longevity and immunity would rise. Peacock green and cactus flower are main colors, with summer green, brilliant blue, orange.com and tap shoe to create a surreal futuristic feeling.

Landscape Protection is one of theme color trends for A/W 20/21 released by POP in 2019, which focuses on natural ecology. The nature provides an organic and comfortable palette. And inspired by nature lovers, architects and philosophers, bamboo and deep lichen green are key colors. The peaceful and natural palette allows people to escape from short-term pressure through observation and reflection. Environmentally-friendly grey, peat, beet red and natural light khaki are integrated to be more eco-friendly and create a comfortable tranquil beauty.

With the awakening of women's self-consciousness, confident and financially independent women have become the indispensable backbone of the society. They play important roles in the workplace and at home. For clothing, in 1966 when feminism hadn't been enlightened, Yves Saint Laurent boldly pioneered the neutral style and designed the first Le Smoking for women. Currently, feminism returns and becomes heated, so this kind of suit has become an important trend in womenswear because it represents the image of independent women in the new era. Based on previous seasons, silhouette changes will integrate with soft, crisp and well-fitting silhouette, thus the confident and nonchalant appearance can display the elegant and sophisticated beauty of women in the new era.

The dried flower is quite fresh and elegant in collections of A/W 2021. Catering to the hazy trend, florals and the dried flower get blurred through ink painting. And they are applied to silk and gauze, quite ethereal. Colors tend to be greyish and with low saturation, quite fit for the quiet and elegant autumn and winter. The technique of expression combines dry drawing of oil painting and wet painting blurring of watercolor to divide dry and wet layers and transit gently.

The plague leads to the combination of work and life. The compulsive change of life habit allows "stay-at-home-economy" to rise quickly. "Stay-at-home-economy" refers to working or doing business at home while consuming at home, including telecommuting, online shopping, social community, take-out life, entertainment videos, online games, online education and financial management. Influenced by these trends, clothing collocation is also changing.

We all seek ourselves in the city, and long for being part of it to enjoy the convenient life and the secret loneliness. Wandering in the busy city, we are social men and the sober urban bystander. A new generation of young urban white-collar workers is flooding into the urban workplace. They pursue the casual, fashionable and young business wear. And traditional business fabrics are changing and upgrading.

The outbreak is spreading, and all Chinese people are making efforts. After the outbreak, people may have different life philosophy, and may focus more on health and nature. So there will be a new pattern trend. Many designers and illustrators also create works about moments of the plague.

Driven by desire, human beings have never stopped harming wild animals and nature. At the beginning of 2020, the earth delivers a serial blow to mankind. The Australian fire, which has been burning for nearly half a year, has turned the country into a purgatory, killing nearly 500 million animals and almost wiping out endangered species. The ensuing outbreak of NCP caused by wildlife trafficking, has caused panic and shortage of goods. Many people have lost their precious lives for this and Chinese economy has been hit heavily. We are more eager to restore the vitality of nature and protect wild animals. To respect nature and wild life is to protect ourselves.

Because of the outbreak, antibacterial and protective fabrics are being snapped up by major medical manufacturers. Exercise and immunity will become the focus of S/S 2021, and people will pay more attention to improving their immune system through various sports. This season the knitted fabric will tend to be more protective and functional, and become water-proof, antibacterial, comfortable and luxurious to be all-weather and durable.