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.

With the awakening of women's self-consciousness and the change of social status, modern women can accumulate wealth by themselves 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.

Resource waste and environmental pollution brought by fast fashion enhance our awareness to sustainable fashion. Customers get tired of stereotyped products and long for something undiscovered, historic, storytelling and souled. The organizers of S/S 2020 Paris Fashion Week initiate Good Fashion Paris campaign to bring together industry insiders on sustainable development. France has legislated against excessive waste in the fashion industry: luxury brands are not allowed to burn clothes! We reflect on the excessive mechanical aesthetics, and take the past as experience. Just like during the Victorian era, Belle Époque and the transitional period from Industrial Revolution to monopoly capitalism, we call for art restoration, reinterpret classical decoration and resist excessive waste of resources by fast fashion.

The key to S/S 2021 is detail. Designers use novel details to enhance the importance of core items, turning enduring styles into fashionable and avant-garde silhouette. Lace endows the slip dress with novelty. The slit hemline is the punchline. Soft pleats create much charm for simple loungewear and pajamas.

As people advocate a simple and comfortable lifestyle, the cutting craft of knitwear is gradually developing towards ready-to-wear, aiming to make life simple and efficient. Soft lines outside and firm lines inside and the neat cutting equip women's knitwear with silhouette change instead of any decorations. Thus working hours get shorten and cost is reduced to gain profits faster.

Plastic-free Coast, one of S/S 2020 color trend themes released by POP in December 2018, starts from protecting marine life. The ocean is the birthplace of life, but now we dump plastic in it. To protect the ocean is to save life. According to the UN's latest statistics, the annual output of plastic reaches more than 0.3 billion tons, and half of it is disposable. If we don't take action now, there will be more plastic than fish by 2050. We call for a plastic-free coast and a clean sea.

Colors of S/S 2021 come from two parts: upgraded natural colors and synthetic colors. They can mix with each other freely. And at the same time, this classification displays the dual characteristics of this world. The longer people stay in the network world, the more strongly they long for nature. We hope to get free from restrictions of science and technology, and face new challenges positively.

In women's knitwear of new season, check is equipped with deep and shallow colors, thick and thin lines, and concave-convex pattern. The combination with sequins and splicing brings an artistic mixing visual sense. Various checks, such as "checkerboard innovation", "rhomboid checks", "combined checks" and "renewal of houndstooth", have an evergreen fashion sense. The eclectic check is leading the fashion.

Resort style is the key style of dresses in spring and summer. According to catwalks and big brands, proportions of the dress in sheer gauze, the slip dress, the press-pleating dress and the dress with sequins gradually increase. In terms of patterns, wide and narrow strips, spliced irregular pop stripes, and floral prints with simple lines and contrast colors become major patterns for dresses in spring and summer.