The Exquisite Life -- The Color Trend for A/W 21/22 Women's Overcoats

Brook Green is a key color for 2020. Fresh and elegant Brook Green highlights the original color of nature, with Lime Punch to lead the far-sighted palette. It perfectly combines future development with nature.

Natural disasters and economic turbulence have caused a restless feeling, and induces rebellious and illogical artistic expression. The mysterious, rebellious and bizarre surrealism clearly emphasizes that the reality controlled by reason and logic is not real, and that only the combination of dream and reality is absolutely real and absolutely objective. In A/W 21/22, luxurious colors fight against the uncertain times. The Night Fantasy escapes from the reality with illogical light and shadow, and surpasses the ordinary natural colors. Microworld explores dreams of plants and find the rebellious thoughts of them. The macro natural landscape accumulates in billions of years of destruction and rebirth, and has the most primitive instinct of life. In A/W 21/22, natural colors will be more tensile.

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.

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.

H+ is one of A/W 20/21 theme color trends released by POP in September 2019. It displays a transhumanism evolutionary. The boundary between reality and virtuality gets more blurred nowadays. And the decadent aesthetics of mixed elements is increasingly popular, bringing new opportunities for the technical street style. And the NCP also drives us to realize the importance of fashion items that are both functional protective and street fashionable. And the items are displayed on catwalks of A/W 20/21 menswear.

The 1980s' style is used to re-create denim items, and modern forms are adopted to reproduce classical denim looks of the 1980s. The powerful feel is synonymous with the 1980s. This season denim items use clean-cut shoulder lines to highlight the silhouette, apply retro indigo tones to be more wearable, adopt primitive elements to enhance the classical denim textures, and make use of laser and ozone technology to reproduce the charm of retro 1980s' denim.

Landscape Protection is one of theme color trends for A/W 20/21 released by POP in 2019, which focuses on natural ecology. The nature provides an organic and comfortable palette. And inspired by nature lovers, architects and philosophers, bamboo and deep lichen green are key colors. The peaceful and natural palette allows people to escape from short-term pressure through observation and reflection. Environmentally-friendly grey, peat, beet red and natural light khaki are integrated to be more eco-friendly and create a comfortable tranquil beauty.

Calm and flowing snorkel blue turns towards a more feminine look. The effect of sportswear's decline is becoming more apparent, especially on the dress and the skirt. Calm snorkel blue perfectly interprets simplicity and elegance with its subdued and deep temperament.

The outbreak of NCP drives the heat of masks and medicine, and changes people's lifestyle and living concept. People find that health is the first, and we should respect the natural ecology. Inspired by the hot topics of health and environmental protection, healing colors will widely spread. Responsible white, dynamic red, natural blue and green hide strong power and will heal people.

More than just losing weight and getting in shape, primordial exercisers devote more time to their health and reverence for nature, creating new forms of exercise and eating habits. They advocate the outdoors and the "earth gym", drawing inspirations from nature and also influencing the use of color. Collaboration collection of Adidas × Wood Wood inspires the theme, showing the amiable tones. A/W 20/21 emphasizes more the perception of the environment, and consumers pursue physical and mental strengthening. Natural colors should be combined with functionality to be fit for the market, and the colors need to be sustainable dyed.

As the free and natural lifestyle gains popularity. BoBos blend bourgeois qualities with Bohemian freewill and artistic aesthetics, bringing a perfect holiday for S/S 2021. We will go back to the 1970s and recall the good old days. We not only prefer the retro 70s styles, but also celebrate the 70s environmental life concept. We become gardeners of the earth, and create a beautiful holiday.

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.