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.

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.

The outbreak and the restriction of residents' going out lead to the sharp decline of customers in the market-oriented offline shopping malls, results in massive stock items, and limits the production and development plans of the fashion industry for the new season. Once again, we realize the importance of sustainable and circular designs for the clothing industry, and the urgent need to reduce the resource waste associated with unmarketable products. We need to maximize the value of the product and extend the life cycle of the product. For the new season, the design mode of combining two into one can be used to integrate the old and the new.

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.

Tie-dye is a Chinese folk dyeing technique, traditional and unique. It has more than one hundred different techniques, each with its own characteristics. More surprisingly, each tie-dyed flower is unique. This unique artistic effect is hard for machine to reach. Traditional tie-dye craft gets renewed in S/S 2021. Tie-dyed stripes and bright colors are added to attract youngsters. And placement decoration creates a softer appearance.

The functional style is very popular currently. And fashion function combines fashion with function. The loose silhouette is core. Multiple pockets make the clothing layered and portable. Pocket is not only the practical structure, but also an important decoration. 3D pocket strengthens the functional feel. Drawstring and decorative lines make the clothing functional and beautiful. Detachable designs endow the sweatshirt with many clothing collocations.

Girls' sweatshirts for S/S 2021 will pay more attention to details and individuality. The 3D deconstruction adds a space sense and layered sense to sweatshirts through layered crinkled structure and spliced materials. Sleeves become the key point of sweatshirts. Sweet sleeves and exaggerated batwing sleeve will be the focus of design. The dropped shoulder design will keep prevailing. Balloon sleeves, spliced and layered puff sleeves, ruffled edges and multiple pleats display the unique design. The change in the waist is also obvious. Fashionable high-waist and multifunctional knots are statement-making.

Influenced by sport core, loose leisure sweatshirts are still important. Adaptability is the core theme of items. Based on simple and loose silhouette, design details such as decorative accessories, protective function and craft deconstruction are added. And the comfortable and eye-catching appearance is created. Many optimized designs for sportswear will bring you out of the comfort zone.

Sweatshirts are breathable, comfortable and warm, so they are favored by leisure menswear and many fashion brands. Accessories are important in sweatshirts, and renew the sweatshirt in A/W 20/21. In this season, individual chains are eye-catching. Exaggerated proportion, silhouette sense and funny designs are applied to create popular sweatshirts. Functional nylon tapes and creative hood string optimize the item.

The forecast for the S/S 2021 is based on future visions in next decades. Many visions become real with the support of technologies. And some visions become the charming future that never happened. Many contemporary art imitations of early futurism are known as retro futurism which combines retro style and technical futuristic style to bring a retro and sci-fi feeling. Flowing colors and lights can be used to strengthen the retro and sci-fi visual impact.

Individual leisure and technical function will be important trends in S/S 2021. Topstitched segmentation with an outline sense, novel offbeat deconstruction, layered cropped silhouette, and integration of function with outdoor jackets will appear in new outdoor sweatshirts. Sweatshirts in the new season put comfort and protectiveness in the first place. Functional and futuristic sweatshirts will be the necessary item for the millennial generation.

The versatile sweatshirt is simple, warm and comfortable. Currently consumers pursue price < product value, so sweatshirts are various based on the basic silhouette. The POP trend team focuses on the current market form and problems, analyzes and summarizes the selling points of future sweatshirts according to POP's internal resources and the latest market information. Illustrations are made from the new round collar, stand collar style, high-neck sweatshirts, basic hooded style, mid-length sweatshirts, elements of outdoor jackets, and creative sweatshirts.

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.

Currently, technology and future become the important direction of men's Chinese fashion sweatshirts in autumn and winter. Individual and bold fluorescent green with a technical and futuristic sense, exaggerated, individual and functional pockets, offbeat deconstruction and splicing, voluminous fleece sweatshirts and sustainable blurred sweatshirts will be key trendy elements of men's Chinese fashion sweatshirts for A/W 2021. Therefore, new clothing collocation is born. The technical and futuristic gathered-ankle pants become a key item. Some individual fashionable and cool accessories like functional bags are combined to inspire the brand-new collocation of Chinese fashion sweatshirts.

Under the influence of environmental protection and sustainability, this season sweatshirts tend to be practical and versatile. Apart from conventional jersey, fleece fabric becomes hot. The oversized loose silhouette is welcomed. Functional woven fabrics, half-open zipper in the neck and pockets make sweatshirts functional, changeable and versatile. Color-blocked mock-neck with ribs and striped v-neck add novelty to the simple style.

Vigorous and fashionable trendsetters of the new era have completely different thinking mode and brand-new lifestyle, and pay more attention to casual wearing experience and unique details. Sweatshirts with both comfort and fashion are the first choice for youngsters. Knitwear sweatshirts in the new season advocate the wearing experience of casual beauty with details as the main and the silhouette as the complementary. This report will elaborate main points of the trend from "layer contrast", "spliced materials", "layered sleeves" and "bracket-style sleeves". This report also recommends comfortable and good-looking knitwear sweatshirts to help with the development of the young and casual style.

With the development of industry and excessive production, the textile industry has become the second largest polluting industry in the world. As the environment is increasingly concerned, reuse, reconstruction and biodegradability become the focus, and we strongly advocate the traceability of clothing and the design concept of respecting the environment. In this background, the ocean, one of the main natural resources, attracts much attention. The ocean tones and textures provide inspiration for men's knitwear for S/S 2021. Bright-colored surface, flowing form and current resources like the algae inspire crafts, yarns and patterns. The integration of dark colors and light colors brings a rebellious fashionable urban temperament to urban gentlemen who advocate simpleness and are willing to accept novelty.

Leopard print, tiger print and zebra stripe are not restricted to the classic black and white when used in knitwear of athleisure style. Their colors are brighter and more gorgeous, making an eye-catching visual impact. Animal prints also reflect the harmony between life and art, bringing a different interpretation for the youth fashion.

Generation Z and the network society grow together. With the increasingly digitized lifestyle , virtual Internet celebrities with millions of fans rise. Virtual Internet celebrities depend on the existence of the network, which in a sense isolates the real communication between people, and creates a new way of communication. As the developing intelligent 3D technology and CGI continuously add creativity to reality, there's a reason to believe that virtual Internet stars are just beginning to take off.