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.

We live in the city and enjoy the convenience brought by the development of city. We are independent, strong and down-to-earth yet a little lonely. With the rise of loneliness economy, more and more urban people try to live in harmony with loneliness, enjoy loneliness, and pursue the comfortable, quiet, modern, practical and high-quality economic concept. Inspired by this trend, men's business knitwear uses soft but cold pastel colors, neat cutting, precise silhouette and detail, and high-quality yarns to bring a brand-new young urban business style.

Hand-made decorations get more and more important in Pre-Fall 2021 market. Traditional crafts are applied to knitwear, such as crocheting, rhinestones, beads and embroidery. Hand-made decorations are redesigned to meet customers' needs. In 2021, the minimalist style is influenced by mix & match, and decorations emphasize the importance of the minimalist details. Rhinestones, sequins, tube and beads return back, and they are even combined to display the maximalist aesthetics. The maximalism of craft is integrated into the basic silhouette of knitwear to display the unique maximalist aesthetics. Crocheting can be looked back in Salute The Past and Redefine The Future -- The Craft Trend for Women's Knitwear (Crocheting).

Influenced by the trend that knitwear gets more and more ready-to-wear, the loop yarns with a wool feel draw attention again. Compared with previous heavy big loops, fine small loops become the new trend. And the touch is softer and finer, emphasizing the granular texture of small loops. So various crafts are adopted to display the fine loops, including basic crafts like stitch and jacquard, machine embroidered applique or machine embroidery, embroidery and beads. They can be used to create all-over patterns or partial decorations.

Under the changeable fashion, warm and soft cashmere refuses complicated utility, and adopts fine stitches and the superior texture of the cashmere to display the fashion charm of urban business style. The fine-gauged texture in the new season creates an orderly linear space, adding elegance and calmness to pre-fall.

In the busy and crowded world, people pursue a quality life, seek the harmony between life and art, make the complicated life pure, and refine fashion with artistic technique. In the new season pursuing diversified techniques, 3D stitch will become a key craft in women's knitwear. The colorful stitches, reversed hand-sewn patterns and elaborate embroidery display the delicacy of 3D stitch.

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.

In recent years, the circular all-in-one machine has been gradually popularized, which eliminates most stitching of knitwear and enables the knitwear more well-fitting, with more delicate craft details. Together with the breathability brought by special structures of knitting, knitted sportswear is more and more popular. In addition to sportswear brands like Adidas which have knitted sportswear, luxury brands like Prada also release knitted sportswear in A/W 2019.

For the textile and clothing industry, sustainable fashion is an important trend in the future development of the whole industry. Currently, the most concerned green initiatives are recycling and reusing, environmentally-friendly packaging, environmentally-friendly new materials, sustainable fashion brands, sustainable fashion e-commerce, sustainable supply chain. Environmental protection is not only a kind of consciousness, but also needs to permeate all aspects of human life. In S/S 2021, men's knitwear integrates environmental protection into the design from patterns, stitches and detail crafts. And style will be suitable for various occasions to be both environmentally-friendly and wearable. With a more direct form, men's knitwear allows consumers to accept and support the concept of sustainable fashion and environmental protection.

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.

The warm and soft knitwear is necessary in winter. Flexible and changeable stitch letters unlock the pattern craft for men's knitwear. Strings, stitches, yarns and accessories are adopted to present exquisite styles, helpful for men's knitwear development of fashion and leisure style.

The last winter of 2019 is coming to an end, and the 2020s will be another decade full of intelligence, curiosity and expectations. As the symbol of spring festival, auspicious vibrant red occupies an important cultural position in important festivals in China, and adds a luxurious bright color to winter. The dark grounding is helpful to highlight the lively feel of vibrant red. Metallic item is the key to the design & development for 2020. Patterns and traditional Chinese cultural elements are also important.

In S/S 2021, sports-oriented consumers pursue durable and individual design and skin-friendly products on the premise of health. They like simplified consumption, so they will choose multifunctional items. Producers need to promise the comfort of items and focus on functionality and practical details. So the light undershirt and basic items will emerge. Fabric with a naked feeling brings an unconstrained flexible sense and a skin-friendly feel, and it can shift between work and sports.

The fast-paced city full of competition begin to make people feel tired, and people begin to think about the balance between man and nature, man and environment, man and things. It is not only the physical need, but also the psychological need to be not crowded, and be free to stretch. This trend influences the development of knitwear, first on stitch crafts. How will the comfortable seamless unibody process create silhouettes of knitwear? The basic stitch of knitwear is inspired by the irregular pleats of DuPont paper to interpret the crinkled style. The faveolate texture brings the temperature of nature to the wearer. The flowing architectural texture renews the twill. Splashing reflects the importance of "integration" in the new season. The cold plate mark relief is combined with knitwear to make knitwear styles more 3D and inclusive.

Inspirations are drawn from lethargic holidays. Slubbed cotton and linen fabrics bring natural comfort. Crinkled paper-like cotton and linen fabrics are plain and gentle. Hazy and thin cotton and linen are the companion of sunlight. The lightweight denim is free and casual, making the wearer enjoy the comfortable moments in holidays. In S/S 2021, cotton and linen fabrics pay more attention to textures than patterns. In terms of colors, light colors increase while dark colors decrease, which is more in line with the pleasing tones under the theme of resort.

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.

The art expressed by light and shadow is quiet and elegant stars in the sky, just like the sunlight sprinkling through the treetops to the ground. In S/S 2021, the development of yarns is inspired by the hazy and low-key mysterious temperament of light and shadow changes. The sparkling but low-key summer yarns need to be skin-friendly, dry, comfortable, soft, and draping. In order to conform with the trend of environmental protection, summer yarns highlight more the traceability, recycle and reuse of resources.

As the industrial architecture style is increasing popular on clothing, kids' knitwear in A/W 20/21 are affected in terms of silhouette and patterns. Stitch changes bring the sculptural texture and architectural appearance. Individuality is still the focus, which shows a recognizable irregular artistic sense.

In this complicated and crowded world, it is important to listen to your heart and enjoy the satisfaction and the sense of belonging. Communication can always express the warm experience, and conversation can inadvertently recall memories of youth in school days. The collaboration collection of Uniqlo and J.W. Anderson proposes the comfortable outdoor preppy style, inheriting the classic of England. In clothing collocation of stars like Li Xian, Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo, the retro preppy style is still hot and will continue to sweep the mass market. The knitwear of Wang Ziyi is one of the collaboration collection styles of PEACEBIRD and Harry Potter, which is inspired by the Hogwarts School and four university design elements. After breaking the stereotype of preppy style under the binary perspective, memories of youth will bring an easy and slightly nostalgic feeling.

On the afternoon of August 23, 2019, 32 global fashion and textile giants signed Fashion Pact, set up the alliance for sustainable fashion and made solemn commitments to three themes: mitigation of climate change, restoration of biodiversity and marine protection. The signatories of this convention are famous fashion and textile enterprises, including the French luxury groups Kering, Chanel, Hermes; the Italian luxury group, Giorgio Armani; the British luxury group, Burberry; the American sportswear giant, Nike; and the Li & Fung Group in Hong Kong. RUYI GROUP, a world-renowned technology textile and fashion brand operator, is the only company in mainland China invited to sign the agreement and join the sustainable fashion alliance. So we can see the development, production and application of yarns pay more attention to the balance with nature/environment than ever. The sustainability of yarns has become the top priority.