The cold colors of the urban environment, gray-toned buildings, fast-moving subways, and crowded strangers are a portrait of urban commuters' exhaustion, as if their souls have been numbed and devoid of vitality. This topic mainly explores the color matching trends for the 24/25 autumn and winter seasons, with office workers as the main consumer group, emphasizing the importance of the five senses to future consumption. It also uses irony to encourage and empathize with the pressures of contemporary workplaces. As consumers continue to speak out in the digital age, it is expected that "resistance culture" will become stronger in the next 5-10 years, redefining the value of life and turning towards a slow and minimalist consumption that emphasizes durability, protection, and functionality.

Amidst the heavy social pressure, unstable circumstances and economic burden, people crave a return to a simpler and more innocent way of life, seeking joy and happiness. Sustainability is not only an environmental issue, but also a design proposition that emphasizes the importance of commercial creations that are cost effective. With the departure of a generation’s style icons, there has been a resurgence in classic designs, bringing punk, mash-up, and handicrafts back into fashion. Nostalgia combined with sustainability has become the new trend in design.

'Man is the measure of all things.’ Because of the long-term lockdown, people have more time to think about the meaning of their existence, and feel the surrounding changes. Abnormal natural environment, matrix interference and unknown creatures are exposed in the public, which let us think about whether the world really exists. The revival of digital culture presents infinite possibilities and affects the real world.

Metaverse, the ultimate ideology of internet, bridges the spirits and continues human's dimensional utopia from a diverse perspective. People desire for a sympathy mind from the others, but they can not run away from Tower of Babel's curse in the end. The contradictory builds an uncrossable wall between people, yet Metaverse provides us with a possibility to think on the opposite side and understand this uncontinuity from another visual dimension, which breaks the boundary between virtual fashion and the real one.

Metaverse ecology has entered into the fields of healthcare. In the post-pandemic era, people place great importance on their own health and a good state of mind, which also makes medical care one of the most concerned tracks in the global capital and technology market. Meta wellness is a more realistic and urgent approach than entertainment. Health is the eternal theme of human beings and the premise of human development. The transformation of lifestyle is the foundation of physical and mental health, and the transformation of medical treatment is an important technical guarantee for maintaining health. Diverse well-being lifestyles and metaverse healthcare lead people to an era of Meta Wellness.

The cover of Vogue Taiwan presents 100% polluted water and daily trashes to arouse our love for this planet. Environmental pollution is a challenging, controversial but inevitable topic in the fashion industry. In the abandoned and polluted space, the future and the past coexist in the present moment. Depressive darks and fresh pastels, modern and ancient, abstract bionic textures and plant prints, all these conflicts form a brand-new decadent aesthetic and reflect the worries about the uncertain future world.

During the pursuit of light, the light with temperature affects emotions. The color language of halo explores the mental experiences as ‘awareness’ and ‘perception’ with an experimental mind. Artistic wanderers in cities subvert the common rules of art, fashion, and life through their senses of humor and playfulness. Dopamine palette establishes a positive mental tone. Uncertain economics and fragile humanity raise concerns about the future, thus people want to live in nature for spiritual calmness.

Internet will be our ideal future. COSMOS theme borrows a time machine to human and allows them to go back to the past. From silent-movie era to the western world, night skies to foggy forests, human are now embracing the all-around digital age and moving forward in the revolution. Aesthetic exploration fuses sci-fi with futurism, present with the past to develop tensive femininity-driven clothes.

The lively Deep Teal is suitable for natural and digital palettes. As an attractive color in A/W 23/24, Deep Teal can be presented in different collections and themes. The application on sophisticated streetwear makes us think of the ‘80s sport elements and also keeps the modern digitalization. This eye-catching and versatile green hue can be both used in large scales and in details.

Technology carries people’s fantastic imaginations of the future, which are always presented in the form of digital lights and acid colors. Along with the long-term development, people finally entered into the metaverse and discovered the digital symbiosis of ecology, life and emotion. The interaction between human technology and ecological system introduces weird digital lights into bionic plants. The scanning of mix media leads young consumers to a futuristic, fantasy space.

Influenced by diversified cultural impacts and fusions, the young generation now has a clear recognition about themselves and their relationship with the world. We can see their independent ideas and evolved aesthetics. Restless minds are settled down by the updating living conditions. Spiritual sublimation enriches one’s thinking and promotes the awareness toward cultural heritage.

The electric and pale hue of Baltic Sea is digital and futuristic, vibrant and fresh. The use of shimmering fabrics can better reflect the digital gloss of Baltic Sea. Compared with the hardcore palette of Metaverse, this bright blue is more acceptable and prevalent, leading us to an electric sea.

The theme Multifaceted Player conveys that these unconventional cross-border people desire for a carefree and unlimited lifestyle in this diversified background. They are always switching between different characters and scenes and enjoying the fun of being a multifaceted player. The fashion world is also trying to be break the restraint of design to meet consumers’ need of multidimensional symbiosis.

Just like signing a Faustian contract, technology and machines take people to a virtual addictive mirror. They are controlled and defined unconsciously. People are immersed in the unreal sensory stimulation in the virtual world, and they make contracts for infinite scientific power. With the clear differentiation of human's society, there come a small group of people who insist to themselves and celebrate excessively avant-garde fashion. More pioneering brands and experimental designs are shown to encourage people to get rid of the restrictions of deeds.

Oriental Rhythm focuses on the design force of the new generation in China. Elegant tones with a new Chinese mindset are presented by unexpected techniques. Reproducing the diverse things in life and the imaginations of dreamers through musics, people desire for self-expression and interpreting the feeling to all the things. The diversified subcultures in China not only represent the fusion of cultures, but also strong creativity.

The colors of Metaverse look like the spectrum reflected by a crystal prism. These pure colors extracted from the virtual world are extremely bright and clean. The ethereal and dustless visual features of artificial universe are fully expressed, and we apply these virtual colors into fashion design to bring refreshing visual effects.

The versatility and unique charm of denim products has attracted countless consumers, and the detail design of denim is a noteworthy point for designers in every season. Patchwork blocks combine different colors and textures together to draw the eyes of those consumers who want to express individuality. Edges are also broken to present worn-out effects. The unique glossy coating endows denim with more expressions, and stitched decorations maintain the popularity. Notably, distressed process, the endless topic for denim, is shown in more innovative ways.

The New Romanticism under the theme of Chanting Knight interpreting the colors those artists used during the European Romantic Period. The mind emancipation of today's world is just the same as that time. Breaking the limit of time and space, the chatting scenes of the past royal family and aristocrats stimulate the longing for chivalry. Court colors are used to reinterpret classic pattern elements. The coolness of European patterns and the luxurious metal feel of knight equipment render the fantasy of the past romance and interpret the patterns of New Romanticism.

The theme of Fanatic Techwear is filled with the futuristic and scientific feel. Combining with the latest color combinations of top brands, this theme is further divided into four parts: Too-cool Error Code, Hot-blooded Warrior, Industrial Wasteland and Space Radiance. When the human civilization and global resource come to the end, stylish youngsters are wearing technical and functional workwear to become female warriors, interpreting a distinctive decadent aesthetic.

High-speed modern lifestyle and high-pressure working condition lead to the anxiety of young people and make them desire for a journey to switch their fantasy. The Barcelona-based fashion photographer Tamara Ruibal brings romantic and dreamy works, who is likely to tell stories through nature, colors and textures. The delicate atmosphere of fashion design provides youngsters with the emotion to switch fantasy, and the rise of cultural confidence reveals more and more dream makers. Spaces of different dimensions are interlaced and overlapped for self-expression. This report will focus on the recommended A/W 22/23 fabrics, including glossy down jacket cotton fabric, three-dimensional decorative fabric, plush fur fabric and glossy patent leather fabric.

Enjoying the retro feeling of urban and wandering in the complex cities, we once again use retro trend to communicate with time and space.The comfort of emotion and body is continuously extended to textures. The skin-friendly, highly elastic, crinkle resistant and easily-care fabrics can satisfies more and more health-oriented consumers. The purest colors are attracting people's attention. Natural plain colors bring us a retro urban vibe and reconstruct the classic items. Comfortable Tencel cotton fabric is applied based on the placement deconstruction philosophy to reveal the emotional and physical comfortable feeling.