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.

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.

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.

Performance designs well meet the needs of contemporary consumers, while the avant-garde mindset aims at attracting young consumers. Deconstructed windproof neck and layered parts realize practical thermal performance. Detachable designs are also available to provide more dressing experiences and streetwear features. Additional embellishments as buckles, zippers, and pockets give functionality as well. Changes of accessory materials and colors combine decorations with performance.

Languages and words present a daily tonality. With the rapid development on and off the runways, letter patterns have always been an important topic. Tidy or hand-written letters and numbers are arranged in a smarter way. The visual differences brought by various fonts increase the pattern layers, and bright colors are also integrated for embellishment. The use on different positions is in line with the current trend and shows great personality.

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.

Leisurely and practical college jacket mainly uses monochrome and complementary-color body. The eye-catching edge colors inject the youthful temperament. Creative badges and embroidery on different positions provide this identifiable classic product with various feels. Contrastive leather, leather cloak and woollen fabrics show the solid feel of winter. Such item is also the best style for collab collection.

Art and fashion are just like two surfaces of one thing. Psychedelic Op Art was widely used on clothing design with the development of spinning and printing techniques in the 1960s. To echo the trendy 60s retro style, Op Art comes back to the fashion stage and injects fantastic and illusory colors into A/W. The latest Louis Vuitton A/W 21 runway was collaborated with the surreal Op Art of Fornasetti to reinterpret the classic checks. ANNAKIKI A/W 21 presented the psychedelic future through the theme Wormhole.

Consumers are paying more attention to self-concern, and mental health and emotion condition will definitely affect the pattern design. Dazzling colors provide positive visual and healing effects. Watercolor pattern is combined with brand label to update the expression of Logo. Heart-shape is still a noteworthy element. Color blocking challenges the optical nerve in variable forms.