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 coming era of "Intelligent Manufacturing" will bring subversive changes to people's life, and these changes will also be reflected in colors of the fashion industry first, including: dynamic and bold classic blue has a weaker influence; blue tones dominated by cold futuristic style become more and more influential; clear and modern blue heaven is hopeful to attract more consumers. Blue Heaven (Pantone 17-4023TPG is the recommended color in "Futuristic Geek", the S/S 2021 theme trend of POP.)

In the social turmoil of the 1980s, people were eager to break the shackle, express themselves, and find identity. A group of enthusiasts for Ralph Lauren launched a lo-Life subculture movement. And lo-life becomes the epitome of 80s retro sports. Now they are also seeking identity, and gender fluidity has become the new label. They get beloved 80s retro sports more refined. With the resurgence of team sports such as tennis and volleyball, the group becomes a new way for young people to seek a sense of belonging and to healthily socialize.

What is Reversed Future? Literally, it means looking back at how people thought about the future in the past. Flying car, airship, laser cannon, floating city, pipeline transportation, conquering several planets, personal submarine and personal robot... All these imaginative visions were once thought by people in the past to be what life should be in the future. With the support of modern tech, early futurism still has unrealized ideas, adding appeal to "the future that never happened", and enhancing the S/S 2021 retro futuristic aesthetics through virtual technology and brilliant colors. Digital space reverses the future, taking us back to a new world that "never happened."

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.

Neoclassicism emerged in the 18th-century France and became a dominant aesthetic in imperial art during the Napoleonic era. Neoclassicism revives classics, elegant and sentimental. It beautifies reality into a classical ideal through arts. Nowadays, as retro style, health and environmental concepts prevail, people take healthy and natural culture as the model and pursue classical and harmonious forms. So designers use time-tested elements. The most significant change in clothing is the return of simplicity and classical fashion, emphasizing realistic values through elegant and rational design.

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.

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.

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.

Hydrogen energy, one of S/S 2020 color trend themes released by POP in December 2018, starts from the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games which take sports to the spotlight again. As the brand-new sport lifestyle becomes closer to our life, sportswear is indispensable in the fashion world. Circular economy gets attention, and hydrogen energy becomes a new concept after the idea of carbon-free energy. This healthy and dynamic state like hydrogen energy drives the "relaxed sport style".

S/S 2021 Theme Forecast

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.

Mood Industry is one of the color trend themes for S/S 2020 released by POP in December 2018. Starting from the rapid development of science and technology currently, people begin to explore the industrialization of emotional intelligence. We firmly believe that intelligent machines and software will stimulate "affective revolution" in 2020. Changeable moods will be collected, recorded, even diagnosed and cured. Industrial products can capture our expressions and sounds, and thus make responses. We give technology "wisdom" as well as "emotion".

In the latest street snaps of fashionistas, nitrogen purple is a surreal color brought by the collision of warm and cold color tones, and it frequently appears in street snaps and quick flashing. It has high saturation and a slight synthetic sense, and shows a dangerous and exciting adventure in virtual reality. Nitrogen purple will become the fashionable new trendy color of technical and sportif street fashion in the A/W 20/21.

MAKE KOL is one of color trend themes for S/S 2020 released by POP in December 2018. From the perspective of the common growth of generation Z and the network society, it pays attention to the increasingly digitized lifestyle and the rise of virtual Internet celebrities with millions of fans. Through interpreting virtual Internet celebrities that depend on the existence of the network, it points out that the S/S 2020 trend 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.

Environment guardians extract the original yellow from the poetic landscape, and tell to designers who are dedicated to recycle to reshape the nature. Texture, comfort and calm coexist to create the pragmatism with ecological harmony. The poetic wisdom of Japanese thinking mode mixes with the elegant power of the pragmatism. The earthy color tones where the nature and artificial synthesis are complementary for each other could bring the ingenious imagination and drive people to escape from the short-term pressure in the observation and reflection.

In A/W 20/21, as the lifestyle is increasingly dominated by technology and 5G technology, information flow of human society is also more intense and rapider. People are yearning for nature, and at the same time, some art classics in life become contemporary attention. When citrus and emerald potion from the nature encounter high risk red, tender pink, and shamanic blue, the whole A/W 20/21 will bring natural, artistic, fashionable, lively and tranquil feelings.

Looking from the Milky Way, the earth surface is covered by a blue halo. Then surface blue is here. The light blue mixing with the purple tone is mysterious and distant, driving us to explore the new look of fashion in the future.

Mechanical green, a true color outside reality, results from unexpected image coding errors in electromechanical imaging due to the interference of short-term pulse wave. It can be interpreted as an automatic or man-made bug. Mechanical green exists in mechanical or man-made jamming malfunctions in science fiction space in the future.

The color is extracted from artworks of French pioneer artist, Martial Raysse. The retro and modern color reshapes the classic art and brings more beauty of art to people. It means that people have been exploring how to reinterpret the classic art to make it more suitable for the future. The retro style sets solid foundation for innovative design with its deep roots in fashion field. The peaceful blue added by green creates the atmosphere of classic art. The ceramic blue appeared in the historical artifacts. The inborn elegance presents the elements of abstract art and creates much fun as an important medium.

Juniors are sunny and energetic. They have a variety of attractive characters. This report introduces the South Korean style, inspired by the retro buildings. Vintage blues, sweet girly pinks, grey pinks and sandy tones give energetic, romantic, independent and elegant qualities. The redefined trench coats show architectural and vintage tones, and the silhouettes are crisp.