As people pay increasing attention to personal health, S/S 2021 becomes the perfect time to re-examine the way we dress and interact with our lives. "Physical", "mind" and "emotion" represent spring trends. Each of these key words is closely related to personal health. "Social" and "transformation" represent summer trends and the way we interact with others. We hope to find a resilient, flexible and adaptive way to integrate all aspects of life, and explore how they influence the way we dress. This report analyzes Social, one of yarn trends for S/S 2021 SPINEXPO.

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.)

Technology is re-creating every aspect of our daily life in a brand-new way and energy. New technology drives the iteration and evolution of garment manufacturing industry. The era of intelligent manufacturing has arrived. Geeks who create commercial modes, cutting-edge technologies and fashion trends guide the new trends and new challenges in the frontier of science and technology, which also brings inspirations for men's knitwear. Light design and the slight quality sense are combined with styles to be fit for business or casual occasions.

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.

Young and fashionable businessmen are not satisfied with the calmness and seriousness of classic business. They favor craft cutting and mixed looks, and pay more attention to details on the neckline, cuffs and side parts. The diversified combinations of stitch, yarn and jacquard will gradually replace the flat and simple color blocks, so the eye-catching points on placement can highlight the feature of entirety, showing the self-pursuit of urban men.

Women in the new era have a totally different thinking mode and a completely new lifestyle. They enjoy the exquisite, perceptual and hedonistic casual fashion. In the new season, women's knitwear tends to choose dainty and light metal accessories to create fine and elaborate items.

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.

Slim young females are seeking for a style in line with their aesthetics in modern urban life. In spring and summer, proper skin-revealing can be close to nature and relax selves. And cutout is one key element to be light and breathable. Balancing the design sense and wearability, cutout in the new season will pay more attention to dainty looks, the combination with transparent yarns and accessory decorations.

Some of urban females are broad-chested, roaming in the city. We are urban bystanders. We pursue comfort and simplicity, choose stylish clothing and the minimalist match, and insists on true selves.

In S/S 2021, influenced by sweet femininity, the young lady style emphasizes more the explicit expression of clothing. As a key item in spring and summer, the blouse will be expressed by a decorative design language. The blouse emphasizes the ethereality and femininity. Therefore, it will be waisted, crinkled, decorated and multi-layered, to fully display the femininity.

Influenced by the restoration of art, the young lady style for S/S 2021 brings decorations and the voluminous feel back to the public view. Retro Victorian, Baroque and Rococo aesthetics gets rid of seriousness and dullness, and appear in clothing playfully and ethereally. Influenced by this style, the young lady style pays attention to the decorativeness and richness, and uses the maximalist aesthetics to create more good-looking clothing collocation.

We live in the city and enjoy the convenience brought by the development of city. We are independent, strong and down-to-earth yet a little lonely. With the rise of loneliness economy, more and more urban people try to live in harmony with loneliness, enjoy loneliness, and pursue the comfortable, quiet, modern, practical and high-quality economic concept. Inspired by this trend, men's business knitwear uses soft but cold pastel colors, neat cutting, precise silhouette and detail, and high-quality yarns to bring a brand-new young urban business style.

Influenced by the trend that knitwear gets more and more ready-to-wear, the loop yarns with a wool feel draw attention again. Compared with previous heavy big loops, fine small loops become the new trend. And the touch is softer and finer, emphasizing the granular texture of small loops. So various crafts are adopted to display the fine loops, including basic crafts like stitch and jacquard, machine embroidered applique or machine embroidery, embroidery and beads. They can be used to create all-over patterns or partial decorations.

In the busy and crowded world, people pursue a quality life, seek the harmony between life and art, make the complicated life pure, and refine fashion with artistic technique. In the new season pursuing diversified techniques, 3D stitch will become a key craft in women's knitwear. The colorful stitches, reversed hand-sewn patterns and elaborate embroidery display the delicacy of 3D stitch.

The relationship between environmental protection and fashion is getting closer and closer, which is one of the most important research topics in the fashion industry in recent years. Environmental protection is not only a call. More and more brands pay more attention to environmentally-friendly capsules, and plan to cover environmental products in the main series. Fashion companies are using practical actions to carry out environmental protection. For knitwear, yarn has become the most critical link in environmental protection. More and more enterprises begin to consider whether the yarn is pollution-free, degradable, recyclable, energy-saving, low-consumption and harmless to human body. This report starts from the connection between sustainable development and knitwear, and aims at the controllable cost and quantity production to extract three key trends: recycled cotton, environmentally-friendly tencel, and recycled polyester made from polyester waste like mineral water bottle.

The past and the future blend and learn from each other. In the 1980s and 1990s when they dared to express themselves and were uneasy with the status quo, there emerged signature items, such as red-and-blue sports suits, color-blocked POLO shirts, and tight pleated tennis skirts. And the collocation rule was pairing them with a neckerchief, a hair band and high-waist jeans. The nostalgic beauty and youthful sports style display the fashion charm of that era. In the new season, women's knitwear draws color proportion inspirations from old photos, revivifies key points and representative items of retro sports, and then recreates them. Therefore, previous fashionable styles revive in modern fashion, and daily sports style is combined with fashion.

For the textile and clothing industry, sustainable fashion is an important trend in the future development of the whole industry. Currently, the most concerned green initiatives are recycling and reusing, environmentally-friendly packaging, environmentally-friendly new materials, sustainable fashion brands, sustainable fashion e-commerce, sustainable supply chain. Environmental protection is not only a kind of consciousness, but also needs to permeate all aspects of human life. In S/S 2021, men's knitwear integrates environmental protection into the design from patterns, stitches and detail crafts. And style will be suitable for various occasions to be both environmentally-friendly and wearable. With a more direct form, men's knitwear allows consumers to accept and support the concept of sustainable fashion and environmental protection.

In the 19th century, crocheting gradually became popular in Britain, America and France. It was mainly used to repair broken lace, so that the crocheted pattern was mostly flat lace. Crocheting is exposed, elastic, compact, soft and flexible. Different crocheting stitch can create different elasticity. Crocheted cutout can well integrate with clothing. It is also applied to woven fabrics like denim. But crocheting is more compatible with machine woven pieces of knitwear. In S/S 2021, crocheting will abandon the stereotype of folk style. Plain colors, melange yarns and placement crocheting are adopted to make crocheted clothing more fashionable and daily.

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.

The fast-paced city full of competition begin to make people feel tired, and people begin to think about the balance between man and nature, man and environment, man and things. It is not only the physical need, but also the psychological need to be not crowded, and be free to stretch. This trend influences the development of knitwear, first on stitch crafts. How will the comfortable seamless unibody process create silhouettes of knitwear? The basic stitch of knitwear is inspired by the irregular pleats of DuPont paper to interpret the crinkled style. The faveolate texture brings the temperature of nature to the wearer. The flowing architectural texture renews the twill. Splashing reflects the importance of "integration" in the new season. The cold plate mark relief is combined with knitwear to make knitwear styles more 3D and inclusive.

Inspirations are drawn from lethargic holidays. Slubbed cotton and linen fabrics bring natural comfort. Crinkled paper-like cotton and linen fabrics are plain and gentle. Hazy and thin cotton and linen are the companion of sunlight. The lightweight denim is free and casual, making the wearer enjoy the comfortable moments in holidays. In S/S 2021, cotton and linen fabrics pay more attention to textures than patterns. In terms of colors, light colors increase while dark colors decrease, which is more in line with the pleasing tones under the theme of resort.