Combination of outdoor and urban styles becomes an emerging trend in menswear. Versatility and comfort of outdoor clothing renew functional details. Straight and gathered-ankle silhouettes are dominant in this season, and reinforce functionality and practicality on fabrics, details and crafts. Technical fabrics create highly functional styles, bringing a new trend for future commute. Detachable trousers can be worn in multiple ways. Drawstring gathers the opening. Big color blocks strengthen the structure and functionality. Functional details on jumpsuits are ergonomic.

As a manifestation of the mass psychology, clothing has been influenced by all aspects of society. Under the background of the pandemic, people will focus more on the consumption for the purpose of protecting their own health and safety, and their awareness of self-protection will be further enhanced. Thus in A/W 21/22 protective clothing becomes important. The combination of urban leisure and outdoor sports enhances functionality and brings more practical designs for knitwear. Details on the head, shoulder and back will help with the design of new items.

A/W 21/22 Theme Forecast

We escape from the pressure of city, embark on a journey to the distance, and find a blend of youth and nature. We roam freely under the sky and enjoy the warm sunshine. The soft halo carries a languid feel, shining out everywhere. Let's breathe and experience the beauty of sunshine. Dandelion is like the color of sunshine, gentle and beautiful.

Embrace nature, enjoy relaxed weekends and feel the nature. The outdoor world becomes a desirable spiritual place. Lush and serene forests extend green to the sky. Primitive plants show the vastness of nature. Dragonfly brings us reverie when walking in the woods. Inspired by the culture of Yama, this theme shows Dragonfly can well combine outdoors with fashion through various designs, and interprets a casual outdoor style with a brand-new life attitude.

With the popularity of digital appearance, technical and functional denim becomes an important direction of this theme. The soft focus filter drives the development of pattern and brings a new look for denim. Abstract digital print and ecological camouflage will occupy a place with a brand-new look. Outdoor protective details will be an important direction of this theme and become the necessary series for S/S 2021 denim.

The Color Trend for A/W 21/22 Women's Puffa Jackets

The 5G technology revolution has brought subversive changes to the future life. The closer relationship between people, as well as people and objects forces people to rethink intersubjectivity. Artificial intelligence and enhanced intelligence are now on the road of collaborative integrated development, and a new era of human-computer interaction has arrived. The scientific concept of simplicity and efficiency advocated by the 5G era is similar to Bauhaus, a product of the last century's industrial age. In A/W 21/22, bright synthetic color is in response to the era of 5G technology. RGB color is generated by digital source code, and virtual code language reproduces the ombre color in high-purity that does not exist in nature. Color overlays on the program language, with electronic methods to enhance the color saturation and brightness, so that the synthetic color in A/W 21/22 will be more technical.

These eight key words are major points for A/W 21/22 Womenswear, covering trends of style, theme, fabric, pattern and detail. This report extracts key words of theme style for the new season. POP will continue to update more key words so that you can follow the trend quickly and prepare for fast-reaction.

The puffa jacket presents the rich design aesthetics and conveys a brand-new free attitude with their diversified design details. In the new season, function and protection gain constant attention, which is fully explained by Anorak and the lining worn outside. Recreating the classic is also a key design direction. Either the deconstructed mid-length style or the improved MA-1 jacket keeps the classic and blends with the aesthetics of the new generation. In addition, the quilted shirt and vest also draw much attention, which proves the importance of layered match and becomes a non-negligible direction.

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.

Influenced by the challenge and anxiety brought by the NCP, people will attach more importance to safety, comfort and practicality of clothing. Thus clothing will also add more loose yet steady structures to meet people's demands. In A/W 21/22, puffa jackets will take on a fluffy look, with different waisted forms to show the importance of the well-fitting silhouette and accessories. Tonal set, A-line silhouette and the half-open neck will focus on the loose structure changes.

Splicing is the key craft of knitwear design. Splicing with other materials enriches the change of silhouette, detail and color. Consumers also like the impact brought by mixed materials. Due to the blurred boundary between business and daily, here we analyze from the slight business style. Functional collar, cuffs and pockets are hot. Suede and textural knitwear are spliced, quite novel. The splicing of knitwear with shirt and sweatshirt is also non-negligible.

From 1940s to 1980s, technology developed rapidly. Lloyd Dunn coined Retro Futurism which is the imitation of early futurism by modern art. Nostalgic and tech futurism create parallel space-time. Early futurism has unrealized ideas, S/S 2021 retro futurism adds appeal to the future that never happened through virtual tech and colors. Digital space is in reversed space-time, taking us back to a new world.

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.

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 spread of the outbreak once again sounded the alarm for human beings-be kind to nature and be in awe of life! Unexpected haze will eventually be dispelled by the sun! The lush forests, the gentle breeze, and the fertile soil are all free gifts from nature. The ordinary existence is worth remembering forever! Inspired by the culture of the mountain system, take a wonderful journey across mountains, lakes and seas, break the boundaries, and find a breakthrough self from the infinite possibilities.

Extraterrestrial Horizon is one of A/W 2020 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.

With the improvement of people's living standards and consumption awareness, it has become an important trend to escape from the city and embrace nature. Currently, we have to stay at home because of the outbreak, and it's a good time to learn and recharge ourselves. And we can also know about how to travel outdoors responsibly and to be more fashionable when wearing outdoor clothing. A comfortable jacket is key to outdoors. The hooded jacket, the pullover jacket and the stand-collar jacket combine the neat cutting with rich colors, bringing more diversified design language to jackets.

Escape from the pressure of the city, embark on a journey to the distance, and find a blend of youth and nature. As Fernando Pessoa wrote in The Book of Disquiet: I would like to live a different life in a faraway land. We roam freely under the sky, search the comfortable shore of the deep heart. Every time we set out, it is to meet a better yourself. Whether it is the original intention of human, or the call of nature, the outdoor world has become a desirable spiritual place. Data show that outerwear made of recycled polyester in the UK and the US grow sharply year on year. The exploration of new protective materials and forward-looking design is getting more and more attention from brands and designers.