This season sportswear palette consists of two themes. The first one is enhanced natural colors which root in nature and deliver a joyful lively style via high saturation. The second is everyday pleasing colors which create a soothing and relaxing vibe. Designers can use these two themes to echo the S/S 2020 trend. In a post-pandemic world consumers will seek comfort from familiar styles. Earth tones offer reassuring tactility and can also be dyed by vegetable dyestuff. As consumers long for an optimistic attitude, vigorous acid summer hues can create energetic summer looks. As people's life shifts toward online, digital workout classes emerge. It is of vital importance to make colors stand out on screen via dynamic brights echoing digital theme. Classic sporty tones will appeal to emerging fitness-driven consumers. Familiar reds, blues and greys will attract new fitness lovers and consumers who hope to blend sportif style with streetwear.

Physical will starts with modern sportswear which is soft, chic and ergonomic, and highlight the use of yarns and fabrics in the changing climate. Protective yarns and fabrics adapt to climate change and provide cosy products for mankind. High-quality yarns and minimalist designs reinforce the luxurious feel, and aim at high-end athleisure and luxury sportswear. This theme also injects vitality into the leisure-luxe knitwear market and brings new inspiration. (This report, Physical, is one of yarn trends for S/S 2021 SPINEXPO.)

As "restraint" is increasingly prevailing, simple design will grow in A/W 21/22. Home exercising, the horror style, Bauhaus minimalism, outdoor modular design and dystopia will run through the A/W 21/22 sport market. A single color and small-scale color decorations are used, breaking the restrictions of season and fashion trends. Inspired by Stone Island and the collaboration collection of ROKSANDA x lululemon, warm or cold tones are complementary to neutral colors, presenting a bolder autumn palette. In the new season, color is closely tied to the fabric quality. More accurate quantification of color through fabric to clothing is our appeal for sustainability in the sportswear market. Colors fit for the whole year are explored.

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.

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.

Comfort and renewable fabrics are increasingly important in S/S 2021. Based on adaptability, functionality will be more and more prominent. In search for optimized technology and innovation of fabrics, consumers demand for personality and sustainability. In S/S 2021, clothes for yoga and Pilates will be more durable and practical. Functional knitted items, matte quick-dry fabric and sustainable polyester fabrics are used to create leggings and base-layer, and to protect the wearer during exercise.

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.

In recent years, the circular all-in-one machine has been gradually popularized, which eliminates most stitching of knitwear and enables the knitwear more well-fitting, with more delicate craft details. Together with the breathability brought by special structures of knitting, knitted sportswear is more and more popular. In addition to sportswear brands like Adidas which have knitted sportswear, luxury brands like Prada also release knitted sportswear in A/W 2019.

In S/S 2021, sports-oriented consumers pursue durable and individual design and skin-friendly products on the premise of health. They like simplified consumption, so they will choose multifunctional items. Producers need to promise the comfort of items and focus on functionality and practical details. So the light undershirt and basic items will emerge. Fabric with a naked feeling brings an unconstrained flexible sense and a skin-friendly feel, and it can shift between work and sports.

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".

Unique and close-fitting qualities are coveted by active women. The functionality of leggings play a key role. High adaptability is a highlight. The super elastic fabric are multi-functional. Meanwhile, side seam cutouts, tapes and others add a statement-making aesthetic.

Active energy blue starts to gain traction, and continues into S/S 2020 in a large scale for a light and smart sport look. Fashion and active dressing is emphasized. Key items include active sets, tight tops and sun-proof garments.