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.

A piece of spliced clothing that combines knitted and woven fabrics implies structure changes and secrets to diversified clothing collocation. It can bring a warm and skin-friendly wearing experience, fit for early autumn. The organic combination of ready-to-wear with knitwear will provide new inspirations for new season's development. Compared with previous seasons, this season pays more attention to the direct splicing of materials, and uses inserting or sewing silhouette to integrate naturally.

Calm and flowing snorkel blue turns towards a more feminine look. The effect of sportswear's decline is becoming more apparent, especially on the dress and the skirt. Calm snorkel blue perfectly interprets simplicity and elegance with its subdued and deep temperament.

Influenced by the changeable, diversified, panic and anxious environment, the multi-piece match emphasizes the layered sense. Disorder and irregularity are impacting the traditional mode. The mix & match of multi-piece match enrich the layer change and express the wearer's pursuit of individuality. Thus it will be an important trend in the future.

Women in the new era have a totally different thinking mode and a completely new lifestyle. They enjoy the exquisite, perceptual and hedonistic casual fashion. In the new season, women's knitwear tends to choose dainty and light metal accessories to create fine and elaborate items.

At the beginning of 2020, we are seemingly surrounded by bad things, like the outbreak and the earthquake. Anxiety, panic and sadness are overwhelming. We want hope, want to be healed, and want to embrace the fresh air. What we are going through endows pastel colors with more responsibilities. Soft pink tones, sunshine yellow tones and green tones are powerful, endowing pastel colors with a new definition. When spring is in the air and blossoms are everywhere, everything will be alright.

Slim young females are seeking for a style in line with their aesthetics in modern urban life. In spring and summer, proper skin-revealing can be close to nature and relax selves. And cutout is one key element to be light and breathable. Balancing the design sense and wearability, cutout in the new season will pay more attention to dainty looks, the combination with transparent yarns and accessory decorations.

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. Their free will shines out in history, exuding the natural beauty. Thus financially independent women will choose more diversified clothing collocation to show the sexy side and the confident side.

Some of urban females are broad-chested, roaming in the city. We are urban bystanders. We pursue comfort and simplicity, choose stylish clothing and the minimalist match, and insists on true selves.

Influenced by the restoration of art, the young lady style for S/S 2021 brings decorations and the voluminous feel back to the public view. Retro Victorian, Baroque and Rococo aesthetics gets rid of seriousness and dullness, and appear in clothing playfully and ethereally. Influenced by this style, the young lady style pays attention to the decorativeness and richness, and uses the maximalist aesthetics to create more good-looking clothing collocation.

In S/S 2021, with the popularity of designer style and the workwear style, people will pay more attention to individual design and cutting, so the important feature of this background is the coexistence of sensibility and personality. The S/S 2021 will focus on nonchalant cutting, exaggerated hemline and outdoor sports style dresses.

The relationship between environmental protection and fashion is getting closer and closer, which is one of the most important research topics in the fashion industry in recent years. Environmental protection is not only a call. More and more brands pay more attention to environmentally-friendly capsules, and plan to cover environmental products in the main series. Fashion companies are using practical actions to carry out environmental protection. For knitwear, yarn has become the most critical link in environmental protection. More and more enterprises begin to consider whether the yarn is pollution-free, degradable, recyclable, energy-saving, low-consumption and harmless to human body. This report starts from the connection between sustainable development and knitwear, and aims at the controllable cost and quantity production to extract three key trends: recycled cotton, environmentally-friendly tencel, and recycled polyester made from polyester waste like mineral water bottle.

The past and the future blend and learn from each other. In the 1980s and 1990s when they dared to express themselves and were uneasy with the status quo, there emerged signature items, such as red-and-blue sports suits, color-blocked POLO shirts, and tight pleated tennis skirts. And the collocation rule was pairing them with a neckerchief, a hair band and high-waist jeans. The nostalgic beauty and youthful sports style display the fashion charm of that era. In the new season, women's knitwear draws color proportion inspirations from old photos, revivifies key points and representative items of retro sports, and then recreates them. Therefore, previous fashionable styles revive in modern fashion, and daily sports style is combined with fashion.

French romanticism is embodied by its clothing with light sheer, beads and lace. The clothing adopts exquisite and lively crafts, creating an ethereal and dreamlike feel. The Rococo style in the 18th-century France is complicated, delicate and elegant, sweet and gentle. In S/S 2021, the knitted dress of sweet young lady style will be gradually ready-to-wear in terms of crafts and silhouettes. The knitted dress will abandon the maximalist decorations of Rococo and retain pleasing colors and the slender silhouette, together with modern trends to present the elegance and lightness of the dress.

In the 19th century, crocheting gradually became popular in Britain, America and France. It was mainly used to repair broken lace, so that the crocheted pattern was mostly flat lace. Crocheting is exposed, elastic, compact, soft and flexible. Different crocheting stitch can create different elasticity. Crocheted cutout can well integrate with clothing. It is also applied to woven fabrics like denim. But crocheting is more compatible with machine woven pieces of knitwear. In S/S 2021, crocheting will abandon the stereotype of folk style. Plain colors, melange yarns and placement crocheting are adopted to make crocheted clothing more fashionable and daily.

For modern young people, the exquisite afternoon tea, relaxing parties or short trips are their favorite ways to relax and socialize at the weekend. In order to create a vibrant atmosphere, bright colors and contrasting colors become the main tones of this season. As purple keeps on prevailing, it is still the key color for S/S, but will be brighter and more pleasing. Purple, fresh romantic golden lime, pure jacaranda and shell pink become featured colors.

The return of the retro style drives the elegance of the last century to bring new inspirations. Elements of the classical court style have been a source of inspiration for many designers. Collar becomes the key detail for women. The focus shifts from sleeves and cuffs to collar and neckline. Those retro and fashionable elements like ruff and rabat are redefined by the modern time, and come back in a brand-new look.

Weaving is one of the oldest arts and crafts of mankind. According to Book of Changes, in the paleolithic period, mankind used bast to weave a net to hold pebbles which were then thrown to kill animals. Hand-weaving came to China around the end of the 19th century. And with the rise of the Nordic style, hand-weaving craft is gradually reviving. It is an art of knotting a rope/string to create a variety of decorations. Weaving contains the retro and the heritage. Corresponding to the design philosophy of sustainable development, some natural fibers, unprocessed original fibers, natural flax fibers and recycled fibers extracted from marine are hand-weaved to create the eco-friendly and recycled clothing, which is definitely the trend in the future.

With the rapid development of the society, we enjoy the fast-paced city life, feeling down-to-earth yet a little lonely. We are busy with life but eager to pursue true selves. We are social men, and also sober urban bystanders. Therefore, the minimalism becomes an important part of searching for selves and also influences clothing. The minimalism focuses on details, full of vitality, and particular about silhouette, comfort and the superior but basic texture. It is very suitable for the workplace clothing of the simple & sophisticated style.

Recently, with the popularity of the retro style, the market recreated retro artistic paintings in 2017, applied retro details and colors and excavated European classic aesthetics in 2018 and 2019. S/S 2021 will lay more emphasis on aesthetics and clothing details of European classic times, especially the Victorian era, Belle Époque, the Rococo era and the neoclassical era. The gathered shoulder line, exaggerated sleeves and details of the collar gain more and more attention.