Bright and joyful Cream Gold dominates A/W 21/22. Malachite Green, which symbolizes the economic city and transportation in the future, is the basic color and combined with Ginger and Nine Iron to depict an eco-friendly and dynamic urban image. The progress of science and technology and people's attention to the environment will change the way of travel. People long for a more eco-friendly city. Therefore, public or green vehicles will be more prevalent, and electric skateboard and bikes will be common personal vehicles.

Although our lives have been squeezed into tiny electronic screens, the need for fashion and comfort has been amplified by the Internet. Fashion clothes are not confined to haute couture, and mega brands one after another create loose sweatshirts from lounge to office. Comfortable sweatshirts get upgraded to fit both sofa and streets, emphasizing the combination of home space and fashion arts. Loose, elongated and cropped sweatshirts will be key silhouette trends for A/W 21/22 women's sweatshirts.

Due to this pandemic, home style gets increasingly popular. Comfortable sweatshirts shift to be items fit for both lounge and streets. Soft loopback jersey, airy sweatshirt fabric and marl knitted fabric are key fabrics with a light gram weight, suitable for minimal comfortable sweatshirts. Soft and comfy knitted fabrics will be a key trend for A/W 21/22 women's sweatshirts.

Sweatshirts gain popularity with their comfort and versatility. In A/W 21/22, kids' sweatshirts employ rich materials, crafts and silhouettes, such as spliced materials (which emphasizes the combination of silhouettes and materials) and folk hand-weaving crafts, novel and chic. Different from ribs, necklines are key to this season. Fun collage patterns add highlights to sweatshirts. Bowknots make sweatshirts shift from athleisure style to sweet fashion.

Comfy minimalist designs and the gentle style underpin the clothing collocation for women's knitwear and overcoats in A/W 21/22. Lightweight undershirts, pullovers with extra long sleeves and knitted sweatshirts complement overcoats. Match of different items, quality contrast between knitwear and overcoats, color proportion and harmonious silhouettes gain more and more attention. High-quality and rhythmic styling displays classicism and nostalgic new femininity and presents the passion, fortitude and valiance of modern females.

Sweatshirts are necessary for street fashion. With changes on fashion and consumption way, young consumers prefer avant-garde fashion brands to casual brands. Hip-length hooded sweatshirts are gender-neutral. Deconstructed silhouettes bring more designs. Round-neck sweatshirts splice with different materials, bringing visual and tactile changes. The loose silhouette remains the mainstream and blends with many trendy patterns and novel crafts.

In this unstable world, fear becomes a new normal. Everyday we are surrounded by anxious and disturbing information about pandemic, death, economic shutdown, environmental crisis, which unwittingly promotes the spread of fear around the world. Menswear fashion brands take cues from horror movies, horror games and even the Gothic culture, so gloomy, Gothic and horror fabrics stand out and become key words for A/W 21/22 menswear of fashion brands.

Combined crafts become the main trend of pattern craft for knitwear. Basic stitch and jacquard in knitwear are combined with embroidery, print, bead and applique to enrich pattern expression techniques and create a refined pattern effect, thus highlighting the space contrast between virtuality and reality, or thickness and thinness. With the popularity of minimalism, simple crafts dealing with same colors and same materials are also non-negligible.

Gen Z who grows up with the Internet and digital age pursues individuality, has their own personalities, and advocates avant-garde looks. Fashion leisure style and avant-garde fashion brands create statement-making items for Gen Z. As a key item, sweatshirts in the new season blend with gorgeous colors, different fabrics of similar thickness, and contrasting accessories to create chic sweatshirts, further highlighting the vitality and individuality of Gen Z.

The sudden outbreak affects the whole world, and people begin to look back on their comfortable life emotionally, hoping for a psychological cure and a memory of a happy time. At the same time, due to the stagnation of trade during the pandemic, many products and fabrics are overstocked. Thus surplus production materials are redesigned and new elements are injected into old goods. These become an effective way to solve the stock. COVID-19 has spread around the world, raising people's fear of terrorist attacks and natural disasters. And protective functional designs bring a safety sense for anxious people.

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.

Influenced by the changeable, diversified, panic and anxious environment, the multi-piece match emphasizes the layered sense. Disorder and irregularity are impacting the traditional mode. The mix & match of multi-piece match enrich the layer change and express the wearer's pursuit of individuality. Thus it will be an important trend in the future.