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.

Sometimes sweet, sometimes cold and rebellious, and sometimes quirky and childlike. In the world of Suspense Drowning, we can do everything we like through the digital internet. From the love for nostalgia to the innovation of future technology, dare to try all the new things around. We respect the diversity of culture and figure out what is our favourite.

'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.

Repeated uncertainties accelerate the economic recession, however, the fashion industry is a durable consumer goods industry under direct affect. For Fall/Winter 2023, we expected for the symbiosis of natural beings and discovered a balanced survival pattern in the adversity. China was predicted to be a dark horse that would incubate the fashion. All the industries have expressed their vision about the future, including digital supply chain, the strategies that transform the shopping demand, the attitude toward lifestyles and IDEA marketing. We advocate to seize the chance to enter into the new fashion era, initiate changes from within, and embrace the Web3.0.

Deed tries to convey minority vanguards’ pursuit of the Faustian spirit, which is an experimental spirit that explores the unknowns by bold destruction and recreation. They insist on looking at things from a dialectical and remoulding perspective. Psychedelic and complicated virtual vision is combined with the wrapping and twining of the second skin to express the spirit that pursues liberty. With visual illusions and sensory color schemes, the consumers of Deed are full of hope for a future era of science and technology, and they are exploring the value of life and their individual personality.

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.

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 A/W 23/24 to predict the fashion trend and broaden the horizon of fashion design. Symbiosis is the mega theme in this season, expressing that the updated standards are accelerating the revolution of fashion industry. The diversified requirements of young consumers will be constructed and satisfied by improved efficiency and algorithm models in the industry.

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.

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.

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.

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.