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.

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.