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.

2025 Performance & Eco-Friendly Fabric Industry Insight

The details of the new season's women's trench coat focus on layers and boundaries, mainly concentrated in the shoulders, collars, sleeves, and waist decorations. Among them, layered flaps, mock layers, and exaggerated sleeves are structurally reformed to make 3D layers. The pleated coating uses special techniques to create textures. The versatile waistband and contrasting edging use heterogeneous materials as embellishments.

Minimalist trench coat in A/W 24/25 deconstructs the silhouette to have a unisex style and subverts the convention. Powerful A-line, wide-shoulder T-line and sleeveless H-line create daily commutewear through straight tailoring. Deconstruction, shirt trench coat and oversized trench coat deliver the handsomeness of urban women.

Outerwear is a practical cross-seasonal item in A/W. The Korean-style girls’ outerwear has been a hot trend in the market. Beyond silhouettes and patterns, designers also pay attention to details and crafts. This report will introduce the following six directions to interpret sweet and vibrant Korean-style outerwear,

Our routine living and working in city limit people’s natural characteristics and hobbies. The desire for releasing mental pressure promotes the multi-dimensional revolution of micro-vacation. The longing for outdoor wildness restarts our lives in a pleasant mood and decodes the pressure. For fashion design, designers are also breaking the monotonous boundaries of purposes and properties to develop practical pieces for multiple occasions.

The partial moulding of details and crafts shifts the silhouettes and visual effects of outerwear, which not only improves the functionality, but also enriches the detail and layers of clothing. Highlighted structural lines, layered deconstruction, outlined chest, functional buckles, patchwork and flexible tassels are the main directions in this report to express the free spirit of modern women.

In the post-pandemic era, people’s desire for outing and camping leads to the popularity of outdoor-inspired patterns. Retro outdoor landscapes are printed on the front part of T-shirts and sweatshirts. The simple graphic languages are minimalist and friendly.

Trench coat is an important outer layer for males. The belted silhouette is more welcoming in the market; deconstruction is in line with the menswear design in recent seasons; light workwear elements make statements; the neat silhouette of H-line trench coat becomes the focus; parkas combine loose fits with fine details.

Influenced by the global background, people are willing to protect the environment and embrace the nature. Thus outdoor camping has been a trending activity in most regions. More and more fashion brands notice the trend and start a new round of outdoor style: being pretty and practical. Different from simple performance workwear, diverse patterns are added into mountaineering wear to develop stylish pieces.

With the awakening of self-awareness, independent urban women have been an essential force in the society. Women are now wearing gender-inclusive pieces. Deconstructed tailoring is integrated into loose silhouettes to interpret the unique modern outfits of new-era women.

The complexity of material and technique leads to the higher cost of design development in Autumn/Winter. Based on the actual demands, POP Fashion digs into fashion weeks and presale products on a world scale to figure out the most investment-worthy fabrics.

Outerwear is an important category for men in transitional seasons. Classic collared boxy is paired with multi-pocket design; pull-over jacket appears on most runway shows; bomber jacket is timeless in Autumn/Winter; stand-collar jacket provides protective performance; classic H-line trench coat is joined by fine details for updating.

Driven by the tonality of urban commuting style, parka has been the latest trend in A/W 23/24 which conveys identity and personality. Minimalist commute wear and elegant urban wear diversify the atmosphere of urban fashion through minimalist performance. On-trend colors are added into neutral palettes to interpret the versatile daily aesthetics.

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.

Brightness and darkness, movement and stillness, kindness and evilness...In the world of duality, contrast and coexistence seem to have a clear boundary in between, but actually, they show interdependence. Even the most common stuff in our daily lives can be redesigned and reconstructed to be dazzling. Let’s find inspirations and visual impacts from the works of George Condo, Adam Lister, Danielle Rovetti, John Battalgazi, Nathan Sawaya and Erik Jensen.

The development of outdoor sports and fashion markets leads to the higher requirements of practicality and protective performance. Different functional accessories have been the key details for all attires. Buckles, sliders, and hooks are placed at new positions. Special fireman clasps and deck hooks are returned for an outdoor military style. Climbing hooks and fixed tabs continue the practicality.

Jacquard has the most enriched and diversified textures among fabrics. The jacquard fabrics in S/S 2023 present bright colors, abundant patterns, and diverse materials. For the development of womenswear, embossed jacquard, two-tone jacquard, and linear jacquard will be the three directions in the new season.

Vision is human nature. We are always striving for the best. Our city ,architecture, space and daily life all show the yearning for a better life. An unconventional spiritual garden is opened in a minimalist and casual way to present the natural power. There is simple and modest elegancy between light and shadow, brightness and darkness, virtual and reality. Time is passing in one direction, and space is changing in multiple planes. People want to reflect infinite reveries in limited space through the interaction with space and nature.

With the awakening of self-awareness, independent women with elegancy and confidence have been the main force in the society. Feminine power is infused into wider silhouettes to provide modernized urban looks with an impressive aura.

The versatility and unique charm of denim jacket are attracting endless consumers. The details of denim product are also a key point to designers. Denim suit jacket subverts the traditional design and shows novelty; loose-fit boxy jacket presents a retro silhouette; sleeveless wide-shoulder vest is a popular item on runways; improved boxy cropped jacket catches the eyeballs of younger consumers; notably, denim trench coat combines loose fit with fine details.