With the return of vintage trend, nostalgic jeans will dominate the market. Due to the pandemic, many perennial jeans in S/S 2021 will mix with deadstock, thus minimizing the effect on the environment. Mini fringed shorts, high-waist paper bag shorts, skinny jeans and boyfriend jumpsuits are blended with new elements and details, thus extending the service life and becoming core items.

The decline of street fashion draws the design focus on the brand itself. Trousers pursue no more novel elements but adjust the ever-lasting shape slightly according to market needs. Popular styles are diversified, such as the tailored cropped trousers with turn-up hems, tapered suit trousers and high-waist floor-length loose trousers, allowing men to extend individuality.

Dwelling in the crowded city and surrounded by tall buildings, more and more people are longing for being closer to nature and seeking for a free and casual lifestyle. The cardigan can be paired with various items to deal with multiple occasions.

As consumers increasingly favor versatile items, trousers in Pre-Fall 2021 pay attention to minimalist details and refined silhouettes. Influenced by tailored style, trousers and suit pants become more elevated business style. Women in the future will have various demands for trousers. They pursue both good-looking appearance and comfort. Bermuda shorts are neat and cool. The mock-layer trousers deliver a retro feel of the 1980s and get renewed in a minimalist way, thus extending the service life and becoming a core item.

Although the boundary between fashion and street is getting increasingly blurred, there is a gap between fashion and gentlemen wear. The shift from street style to elevated business style shows the change of modern aesthetics. In A/W 20/21, crafts of trousers are magnified. Details on pockets, creative changes of waistband and bold leg openings develop toward a high quality. Practical accessories become highlights. Creative designs tap into youngsters' need of extending individuality, and become a key trend for men's trousers in A/W 20/21.

The pursuit of comfort in the future will drive the popularity of boyfriend style. Designers smartly improve the boyfriend style via crinkles, making the item feminine and fitted. Casual disorderly gatherings, regular flat pleats, creative pleats, topstitch dart and A-line box pleats create more wearable crinkles for durable denim items.

In the future, telecommuting will be a new normality. The gradual change of lifestyle contributes to that consumers demand for higher comfort, versatility and durability of clothing. And improved jeans are fit for both staying at home and going out. Jeans increase the volume of hip and legs. With the vintage trend, flares are optimized, and bootcut jeans and A-line loose jeans will be more popular. The contrast between waist and hip is key to silhouette.

Females want to display their leg lines and pursue simple and powerful charm, which gives rise to commute looks in the new season. As a necessary item, jeans perfectly display femininity. Denim shorts, ankle-length jeans and floor-length jeans focus on the waisted effect. Silhouette is adjusted to well modify legs.

Gathered-ankle denim trousers are popular in the market because they are wearable and comfortable. They deliver a strong high street feel and become a hot silhouette in S/S 2021. Gathered-ankle denim trousers of relaxed sport style remain the key development direction. Sport elements make a contrast with denim, quite novel. Classic workwear denim trousers with pockets remain prevalent. Voluminous gathered-ankle trousers apply drawstring to leg openings, revealing a statement-making feel.

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.

Influenced by feminine power, street fashion also integrates these elements into womenswear. In A/W 21/22, more luxurious elements and sportif elements will be blended. Mixed elements and unconventional design allow haute couture to blend with street culture. The mix & match of retro elements with high-waist will be the main trend of the street style in this season. Shirt and suit collocation will emphasize the light business style elements and practicality. And designs accentuating femininity such as high-waist enhance the feminine feel of street style.

This season denim will focus on practicality and comfort. Eco-friendly washing and retro distressed look re-create the classic style. Flares, high-waist styles and loose pants return. Straight trousers replace skinny pants. Color-blocking, revers and gathered-ankle design refresh denim silhouettes and create avant-garde looks.

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.

In 2020, the sudden outbreak of the NCP has brought a new challenge to human beings and brought great changes to people's lifestyle and life attitude. And designers are also inspired by that. After the outbreak, people need an item that combines trendy elements with functional protection. The functional protective style is integrated into practicality and functional aesthetics, redefining the functional menswear market. It is so popular with young consumers with its unique style that it becomes a hot design direction for menswear after the outbreak.

The outbreak leads us to realize the importance of improving our own immunity. During the outbreak, people have to stay at home, and they have plenty of time but nothing to do. Thus some indoor sports like yoga and meditation gain much attention, and their unique fabrics and comfort also draw much attention.

Denim is getting increasingly popular. And the cinematic aesthetics of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood has inspired emphasis on durable denim look. Catering to the revival of retro style, in S/S 2021, designers adhere to the nonchalant and sincere attitudes of the late 1970s and 1980s, use the retro keynote to add novel elements to unsalable and recycled denim, apply primitive elements to enhance the indigo denim texture, and utilize the improvement of laser and ozone to display the denim charm of natural original ecology and to bring close to the aesthetic perception of the natural environment. Reactive dyed denim, soft denim and eco-friendly denim jacquard are integrated with soft practical style, adding modern elegance and enduring vitality to new femininity.

Actually, when Chinese designers integrate their own design style, personality and life attitude into their designs, the Chinese fashion is born. With the arrival of the new century, people will gradually shift their focus from living in the present and recalling the past to the future due to their confusion and longing for the future. Thus the futuristic and technical functional style will be an important developing direction for S/S 2021. The strongly functional deconstructed T-shirts and fashionable hooded T-shirts are worthy of attention in S/S 2021.

In S/S 2021, denim returns back in classic styles, brings more possibilities to consumers, and creates mix & match looks. This season is dominated by classic styles, classic appearance and eco-friendly washing. Cycling shorts and distressed straight jeans are washed and well-fitting to create an urban style. Voluminous flares and high-waist loose trousers return back with the retro trend. Holes and exaggerated fringes can create a leisure and young look. The style is both daily practical and avant-garde.

Crafts of women's trousers start from a new perspective. Main changes lie in the waistband, silhouette and leg openings. Different parts of trousers are decorated by buttoned slit, self-cloth knot or layered crinkles.

As the power women style returns, modern womenswear draws more attention from the market. And the bottom pays more attention to silhouette and functionality instead of street wear. Therefore, trousers will combine tailoring with the loose silhouette, emphasizing the leisure and practical style.

Jeans are a hundred years old, but they still look young. Their vitality and changeable styles make them ever-lasting in the fashion industry. Jeans have come a long way from the workers' uniform to the symbol of youthful rebellion, then to the high fashion item. And its invention is also quite interesting.