With the prevalence of Internet, the culture in a certain circle becomes a heated topic. A group of young fearless generation advocates expressionism and tries to extend their individuality via surreal modern edgy street looks. Eco-friendly cotton, striped fabrics in new neutrals, cutout knitted fabrics and tie-dyed knitted fabrics renew men's knitted fabrics of fashion brands in S/S 2020 via their brand-new street fashion visual effect and comfy hand feel.

Sweatshirts gain popularity with their comfort and versatility. In A/W 21/22, kids' sweatshirts employ rich materials, crafts and silhouettes, such as spliced materials (which emphasizes the combination of silhouettes and materials) and folk hand-weaving crafts, novel and chic. Different from ribs, necklines are key to this season. Fun collage patterns add highlights to sweatshirts. Bowknots make sweatshirts shift from athleisure style to sweet fashion.

Comfy minimalist designs and the gentle style underpin the clothing collocation for women's knitwear and overcoats in A/W 21/22. Lightweight undershirts, pullovers with extra long sleeves and knitted sweatshirts complement overcoats. Match of different items, quality contrast between knitwear and overcoats, color proportion and harmonious silhouettes gain more and more attention. High-quality and rhythmic styling displays classicism and nostalgic new femininity and presents the passion, fortitude and valiance of modern females.

In the post-coronavirus era, people hope to establish a close relationship with nature. Knitted fabrics work well for both men and women, and go across the whole year. In S/S 2022, designers try to extract trendy colors and natural, harmless dyestuff from nature for pile knit, jersey and stretchable mesh fabric, so as to meet consumers' interest in nature.

Sweatshirts are necessary for street fashion. With changes on fashion and consumption way, young consumers prefer avant-garde fashion brands to casual brands. Hip-length hooded sweatshirts are gender-neutral. Deconstructed silhouettes bring more designs. Round-neck sweatshirts splice with different materials, bringing visual and tactile changes. The loose silhouette remains the mainstream and blends with many trendy patterns and novel crafts.

The internet greatly affects the consumption way of Gen Z, and subcultures like music and street events also influence their clothing. Individuality and self-expression stand out. Fashion bloggers such as Connorxel and Dominic Grizzelle grow with the internet. They love street events and fashion meetings, favor bright color contrast and retro styling, and create elevated street looks.

In this unstable world, fear becomes a new normal. Everyday we are surrounded by anxious and disturbing information about pandemic, death, economic shutdown, environmental crisis, which unwittingly promotes the spread of fear around the world. Menswear fashion brands take cues from horror movies, horror games and even the Gothic culture, so gloomy, Gothic and horror fabrics stand out and become key words for A/W 21/22 menswear of fashion brands.

Sweatshirts are comfortable and versatile. In S/S 2021, sweatshirts are dominated by a loose silhouette, and combined with popular elements and creative designs. Voluminous sweatshirts employ exaggerated lengthened placement and pattern decoration for a stronger street vibe. Loose crew-neck sweatshirts show newness via pattern designs. Hooded sweatshirts continue tie-dye, and pursue innovative and eco-friendly design techniques and crafts. The cardigan style returns back. A zipper endows the sweatshirt with a blocking sense and enriches the silhouette.

Whether taking exercise at home or in the gym, people are demanding higher performance, which gives rise to active innovation trend and create high-tech cutting-edge sports equipment. Technical textiles and smart solutions which respond to and transmit data are becoming new ways to optimize and enhance performance. Comfort, fit and support are key points of next-generation products. All-day comfort of garments are tested and ultrasonic welding technique is employed to eradicate friction. Reflective designs consider less safety, aiming to extend individuality. They are designed to match black gyms.

Ancestral athletics such as yoga increasingly appear in new fitness group. Cutouts, asymmetry and luxe fabrics create premium looks. Trendy details on catwalks are also integrated, displaying the dramatic luxury of fashion. Although yogawear features natural tones, some brights are injected for youth appeal. This will help enter non-traditional markets and make yoga down-to-earth and accessible. Designers are paying attention to trend origin, nature, a slower life and a mindful lifestyle.

Combined crafts become the main trend of pattern craft for knitwear. Basic stitch and jacquard in knitwear are combined with embroidery, print, bead and applique to enrich pattern expression techniques and create a refined pattern effect, thus highlighting the space contrast between virtuality and reality, or thickness and thinness. With the popularity of minimalism, simple crafts dealing with same colors and same materials are also non-negligible.

Gen Z who grows up with the Internet and digital age pursues individuality, has their own personalities, and advocates avant-garde looks. Fashion leisure style and avant-garde fashion brands create statement-making items for Gen Z. As a key item, sweatshirts in the new season blend with gorgeous colors, different fabrics of similar thickness, and contrasting accessories to create chic sweatshirts, further highlighting the vitality and individuality of Gen Z.

As a basic style, sweatshirts are quite popular. Increasing young people are keen on Chinese fashion brands, and sweatshirts also occupy a half of the market of street fashion. In 2021 spring, the loose silhouette remains the core silhouette, while the pattern is less dramatic. The worn-out round collar sweatshirt is an important silhouette, reflecting the rise of light vintage elements. The bright sweatshirt with a stand collar adds a superior summer feel to early spring. The deconstructed sweatshirt is prominent this season and becomes the hottest Chinese sweatshirt silhouette. Sweatshirt is blended with popular elements and creative designs, and gets upgraded this season.

The sudden outbreak affects the whole world, and people begin to look back on their comfortable life emotionally, hoping for a psychological cure and a memory of a happy time. At the same time, due to the stagnation of trade during the pandemic, many products and fabrics are overstocked. Thus surplus production materials are redesigned and new elements are injected into old goods. These become an effective way to solve the stock. COVID-19 has spread around the world, raising people's fear of terrorist attacks and natural disasters. And protective functional designs bring a safety sense for anxious people.

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.

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.

As consumers pay more attention to health and exercise at home, products' versatility and expansion of service cycle are more important. Female consumers hope to show the figure while taking exercise, especially the upper abdomen. Ergonomic unibody knitting technology is combined to create functional and personalized items. Different items are created for different exercises. The service cycle of products focus more on sustainability and whether the fabric is healthy to human body. Technical methods, unsalable stocks and recreation of fabrics can be adopted to reduce the resource waste.

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.

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.

Sustainability drives us to pay more attention to the relationship between human and nature. With a theme of animals in nature, different crafts are used to depict the beautiful scenes of animals galloping freely in the nature. Animals are applied to clothing in the way of placement positioning embroidery. Rich color changes and stitch changes make the pattern more vivid.