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.

According to the researches toward consumer portraits, data trend, design evolution, and the dynamics of fashion industry, the forward-looking group of POP Fashion released the forecast of five themes in S/S 2023 to predict the fashion trend and broaden the horizon of fashion design. When the virtual world started the fashion "Metaverse", the physical world opens the "Animism", which is the future vision of Meta-Heuristics, the mega theme of S/S 2023.

Troubador comes from the French word Trouver which means discoverer and inventor. Knights are expressing romantic love and spiritual belief during their chanting. The pursuit of romance and love tells timeless and spaceless mythology with artistic fantasy. The fusion of 19th century Romanticism, fearless Chivalry and Renaissance aesthetics interprets the pioneering New Romanticism of contemporary teenager culture.

After the new normality, the world is expecting that everything will revive in the future. Fashion, as a presentation of life, has been a carrier for people's perception and expression. Innovated spirit of the time promotes the emergence of avant-garde knights who break the previous public persona and turn from a maverick to an independent thinker. They are responsible youths and flexible players, exploring self-evolution continuously.

In S/S 2022, healthy social lives and economy enters in a new diversified normality. People use Bionic Art to recreate the connection with nature; people use virtual and digital technology to upgrade the emotional futuristic resonance of The Sixth Sense; the Sweet Mix style reshapes the individualized expression of Gender Fluidity; the natural-balanced delicate style updates the Summer Ocean; Copy&Paste redefines the fashion timeline; the delicate Unusual Sensuality; the national consciousness of Local East Asia; new aesthetic Cottagecore Rural. These are the Top10 key words of theme trend, which present the most noteworthy direction of this season and predict the theme trend of the coming season. This report distills some theme style key words, and expands the theme trend. POP will keep updating the key words report to make quick response and grasp the key points of trend.

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 feel empathetic and express our thoughts via futuristic mixed styling. At present, the filter reality has been extended as boundaries between people and things in different fields or attributes, and boundary between garments and crafts is also gradually blurred. Brand-new trans-boundary designs can be tried to bring a more avant-garde street style.

S/S 2022 Theme Forecast

We are tired of the busy and crowded city, try to find freedom and enjoy the visual beauty. But we are restricted by the reality. People always hope that the good time can be fixed, and the painful time is fleeting. Just as the philosopher Henry Bergson defines time as indivisible, accumulating and flowing, time never goes back, but the marks of time can be folded to blend prosperous classics with modernity. Therefore, those time-tested and valuable objects can be inherited.

The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 influences the globe. The fashion industry is under an unprecedented challenge. As people focus more on their home life, home style grows and multifunctional items fit for both home and daily life become a must. After the pandemic, everything will get back on the track, so pure healing colors as well as simple comfy silhouette will be a mainstream.

Political turmoil, economic instability, and this sudden pandemic magnify people's panic about the future. In this digital age, panic spreads globally. A group of fearless youngsters advocates expressionism, and extends their individuality through surreal, dark, edgy street looks. Faced with this bad social environment, young people are suffering from unprecedented emotional impact and psychological gap, and try to find emotional vent. Dark fashion presents people's anxiety and fear in the most direct way, thus horror aesthetics rises in the fashion industry.

A/W 21/22 Theme Forecast

With the popularity of digital appearance, technical and functional denim becomes an important direction of this theme. The soft focus filter drives the development of pattern and brings a new look for denim. Abstract digital print and ecological camouflage will occupy a place with a brand-new look. Outdoor protective details will be an important direction of this theme and become the necessary series for S/S 2021 denim.

These eight key words are major points for A/W 21/22 Womenswear, covering trends of style, theme, fabric, pattern and detail. This report extracts key words of theme style for the new season. POP will continue to update more key words so that you can follow the trend quickly and prepare for fast-reaction.

We walk through the busy streets, pass the familiar coffee shop downstairs, visit the exhibition of Vincent van Duysen, wear basic clothes and live in a comfortable and warm house. In such a relaxed day, we enjoy the city life, feeling down-to-earth yet a little lonely. Seemingly absent, but we are determined to find ourselves - be social men, also sober urban bystanders.

The forecast for the S/S 2021 is based on future visions in next decades. Many visions become real with the support of technologies. And some visions become the charming future that never happened. Many contemporary art imitations of early futurism are known as retro futurism which combines retro style and technical futuristic style to bring a retro and sci-fi feeling. Flowing colors and lights can be used to strengthen the retro and sci-fi visual impact.

People escape from the pressure of the city and embark on a journey to the distance, in order to find a new blend of youth and nature. As Fernando Pessoa said in The Book of Disquiet, I am willing to live a different life in the distant land. They roam freely in the boundless sky, and search for the comfortable place in the bottom of heart. Each departure is to meet a better self. The outdoor world becomes a desirable place of the soul whether because of the original intention of human, or the call of the nature. They embrace the nature, immerse in the weekend time, perceive the connection between man and nature, and live a different life to interpret the casual outdoor style and reshape self.

S/S 2021 Theme Forecast

The term "Industrial Revolution" has a long history. The year of 2020 was a distant future, but it gets closer and closer. From expectation, exploration to realization, we change our cognition which is also influenced by industrial and technical products. In the past, our emotions are changeable and illogical. But as we are more certain about the future, our moods will be industrialized, collected, recorded, and even diagnosed and cured. Therefore, we begin to explore the emerging emotional intelligence.