The unprecedented development of technology, aviation, and artificial intelligence is changing human’s traditional way of life and the world pattern. A new unknown era is coming. AI’s painting techniques are becoming popular, accelerating the progress of the metaverse, and a new utopian vision is vividly emerging. The technological revolution brings about human exploration of Martian civilization. Turbulence in the world pattern, and uncertain emotions about the future, as well as more anti-war sentiment and issues of resource allocation engulf this era all around the world.

COSMOS perfectly fuses the sense of technology with futurism to improve the expression of avant-garde street fashion and urban techwear. The evolving of technology foresees the VR universe. Virtual vision, metallic texture, blurred colors and tensive letters are the main creative inspirations that exude a mysterious, unknown and bizarre atmosphere.

POP Fashion released the Spring/Summer 2023 color trend ‘Metaverse’ in January 2022. The palette of Metaverse is grouped by futuristic and scientific colors to underline the distorted digital visual effect, which brings newness and also practicality. Neutral gray and black explore the practical application of trendy colors. Saturated electronic colors are decorated for a futuristic approach. The color scheme fusing blues and greens is extremely dreamy and distorted, while the lustrous, metallic touch of purple combines digital virtuality with the real world and endows avant-garde street fashion with powerful expressions.

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.

Zinnia is greatly vibrant, fresh and uplifting orange hue that perfectly satisfies people’s eager for peacefulness and positive energy. The optimistic colors will be more appealing when we are facing with bad moods and the uncertain future.

Rebellious preppy aesthetics have been penetrated from social medias to runway shows. The popularity of this sub-culture aesthetic also signals that fashion is a tool for self-pleasing and self-expression. Driven by the influence of D.E.B.S and Euphoria, people in this new era want to see more anti-fashion characters. Leather, transparent metal, animation elements and punk rock inject rebellious spirits into classic preppy style to interpret the New Prep.

Metaverse -- The Design Development of Womenswear

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.

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.

Spicy Orange will be the key point of this season, which can satisfy consumers' demand for positive and fresh red color. Such thick saturated color contains both modern and vintage textures. Besides, avant-garde brands and fashionistas also use modern bright colors to redefine this Spicy Orange.

With the popularity of digital art, digital acid vision is penetrated into the aesthetic of consumers. Composite colors are no more against to the nature, and they are integrated and interlaced with neutral colors and natural colors to express the future color trend. Digitalization tries to convey tactility through vision and hopes to stimulate more real sensory touches of consumers. The inspiration video comes from the imagination of Crea Studio. Color shapes and rich visual textures compose the attractive digital world, which is exactly the concept of Digital Touch.

With the development of digital technology, seeing and hearing will be digitized, and touch and smell will also be digitized. Immersive digital technology is gradually filtering the reality, and reality and social intercourse are increasingly tied up with virtuality. Gen Z enjoys immersing themselves in a virtual audiovisual world, releasing their emotions and making their voices heard. We behind the filter also reach to the empathy and resonance. Nowadays, the filter reality has been extended to become the borders of various fields and distinct things. Influenced by the rising digital design and hedonism concept, high-saturation lightning colors take the Filter Reality to a surreal dimension.

The young generation look at this world in their immature and imaginative views. Being busying with virtual social, the globalization background connects people from various environments, identities, statuses and cultures. And we call it The Hybrid Age. Those people who pay for their hobbies and ideas become the main consumers of the Circling-layering Economy, expressing the thinking of “Understand Ourselves”. This topic focuses on the color of S/S 2022 chemical fiber fabric and blended polyester fabric to build a color aesthetics which fit the beauty-appreciation of this young generation. We hope to allow strangers from different environments to understand each other and cause soul resonance under the conflicts of various cultures. And we also want to break the circling-layering culture by content spreading and work for the mainstream.

People are more yearning for a digital future, and try to express their emotions with brights, especially the energetic and optimistic young generation. Futuristic digital light effect prompts the attention to pleasing and positive tones. Therefore, digital brights will widely prevail in fashion fields. Optimistic, aggressive and upward colors will underpin S/S 2022 knitted fabrics.

2022 faces new challenges of wellness and economy. Resources waste, people's focus on wellness, and the attention to handicrafts drive industries to innovate. The textile industry is no exception. For the masses, we find home life prompts thrift, so that designers begin to focus on redesigning waste fabrics. As a result of handicrafts and decoration trend, rugged relief and natural weaving textures become key fabric trends. In the post-coronavirus era, protection will be a key standard for fabrics. Healing copper, silver and other metal fibers give S/S fabrics a new function and appearance. In addition, ice dyeing rises and renews previous tie-dye, so fabrics develop towards a natural, eco-friendly and harmonious direction. This report will center on fabrics to conclude keywords for S/S 2020 fabric trend in terms of fibers, functions, crafts, colors and texture changes. The series of reports about S/S 2022 key words will continue.

Political turmoil, economic instability, and this sudden pandemic magnify people's panic about the future. In this digital age, panic spreads globally. Horror aesthetics which helps to vent inner anxiety and fear rises. As the movie based on a children's book, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and the TV show, Are You Afraid of the Dark, are gradually on, horror themes have become a way for children and adolescents to seek out visual and spiritual adventures in mundane lives. They inspire imagination and help with self-understanding during growth. Besides, horror themes are also a secret language for peers to connect with each other.

Purple is a color with high purity yet low brightness. It conveys lonely, noble, luxury, elegant and mystical emotions. In S/S 2019 fashion weeks, purple holds 2.49%. In S/S 2020 fashion weeks, purple takes up 2.49%. Lavender Fog occupies the highest proportion of 46.79%, followed by Fig (13.27%) and Pastel Lavender (9.18%%).

Grunge was originally a musical style originating in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was a combination of heavy metal and punk music. At that time, financial crisis and economic recession led bandsmen to embrace durable denim pieces, resulting in a decadent and casual style. With the return of retro trend, neo-grunge style is back. Denim items in this season employ magnified and exaggerated design techniques to add a modern sloppy style, showing the collision of various prints and messy colors in a nostalgic way.

What is Reversed Future? Literally, it means looking back at how people thought about the future in the past. Flying car, airship, laser cannon, floating city, pipeline transportation, conquering several planets, personal submarine and personal robot... All these imaginative visions were once thought by people in the past to be what life should be in the future. With the support of modern tech, early futurism still has unrealized ideas, adding appeal to "the future that never happened", and enhancing the S/S 2021 retro futuristic aesthetics through virtual technology and brilliant colors. Digital space reverses the future, taking us back to a new world that "never happened."

Yoshitaka Amano held his solo exhibition in Modern Art Museum, Shanghai from June 1 to September 1. This report shows you his great works to enjoy his artistic charm.

Bold and directional spectrum purple is developed based on tulip purple with a little bit of blue. With the emerging of social awareness and young consumers, spectrum purple will be dominant and indispensable.