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.

Multifaceted Player is a Spring/Summer 2023 theme trend released by POP Fashion in November 2021. The palette of Multifaceted Player shows eye-catching color blocking and low-brightness colors with fluorescents. Saturated red is joined by pale coffee for a classic and dynamic useful color scheme; deep blue, pale coffee, and vital green complete the popular color matching; gray-infused purple is complemented by fluorescent green to reveal a rhythmic and novelty palette.

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.

Open the album of memories, pick up the beautiful memory fragments of the past, awaken the old time with a new visual language, back to the present. Hedonism is a true portrayal of the inner world of urban youth. Retro Time carries the eternal topic of freedom and vitality, playing a summer rhapsody, or recalling the passion and romance of California beaches, or wandering between suburbs and cities to enjoy the life. Everywhere is a re-interpretation of classic memories.

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.

Bright Moment could be the material cultures in humans’ history, the legendary achievements of athletes, and even the emerging e-sports competitions. Epidemic situation leads to the awareness toward health and the rapid development of workout industry. The sport spirits of Beijing Winter Olympics encouraged people to challenge limits in multiple dimensions.

The colors of Natural Spectrum come from Mysticism. Natural lights can be either healing or punchy in different situations and times. Interstellar elements are mainly presented on outdoor performance wear, while natural, ethereal colors develop fairy sophisticated womenswear. Brighter warms are injected into the fresh palette to show the positive mood of summer, endowing urban people with a comfortable, immersive experience.

The clean Ocean Wave is sourced from the natural power. The changing, rolling ripples also reflect the healing color of sky, which allows urban people to enjoy the pleasant of nature. Ocean Wave is applied as the main tone to explore the diversity and practicality of color. The transparent and lustrous textures will bring different presentations.

Gray Morn, the key color for S/S 2023 toddler’s wear, is the reflected sunshine on the morning beach. This sandy hue of gray-infused beige presents the cozy comfort and the warmth of dawn, which is suitable for developing going-out wear of children in spring and summer.

The palette of Universal Culture is sourced from vegetables and fruits, dopamine brights, and comfy, healing tones. Recovering from the epidemic, consumers are longing for the return of pretty bright colors. Dopamine tones and botanic neutrals are selected as the core. Desaturated calm and pure colors are infused into the palette to improve the acceptability and bring a positive color therapy.

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.

The colors of Urban Greenhouse are sourced from the fresh natural hues. Busy urban people are desire for reconnecting with the nature, therefore, bright and gentle raw colors are extremely healing. Fresh light-catching cool tones and botanic hues are joined by bright warms to inject a positive attitude into the palette, endowing urban people with the comfort of natural greenhouse.

The S/S 2023 color scheme of Multifaceted Player is constituted by eye-catching and saturated brights. Inspired by Baku Takahashi’s glass artworks and Kathryn MacNaughton’s abstract paintings, fresh and impactive colors convey the positive and borderless spirits of Multifaceted Player. Classic, active reds and oranges are joined by pink for more vitality; saturated green is also added to renew the palette. This theme is divided into four palettes: Retro Dynamic(Red), Urban Outdoor(Brown), Industrial Future(White & Green), and Working Leisure(Pink).

The colors in the theme Animism are sourced from the nature. The minimalist and gentle spectrum soothes the mentality. Vegetarians who pursue the zero-carbon lifestyle explore the beauty of nature in an experimental spirit and advocate the multi-domain circulatory system. They are chasing for F.I.R.E.(Financial Independence & Retire Early) and balanced Ayurveda. They are artistic wanderers, who consume in the art scenes with an identity of VIC. Culture, experience, and value are their favourite targets for investment. Pursuing tactility and durability, joyous sense of humor and sensitiveness break the conventions of art, fashion, and life.

Aqua Green is a refreshing, cold-tone, and saturated botanic green that may cool down the hot summer. The application on infants’ go-outing clothing fully represents summer vitality, while the use on loungewear shall be presented on small-scale prints and color blocking.

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.

Retro Time conveys the spiritual expression of Gen Z consumers' nostalgic emotions and awakens the memory of the golden age via scene replays. Discovering the oasis that we desire for, an escapist journey is started the high summer. With the use of joyous tones, new elements are joined by the old to present a retro vacation style. Retro Time hopes to create a relaxing and carefree mini-vacation atmosphere for the busy teenagers in city. A self-healing summer rhapsody reminds us of the passion and romance in summer, and reinterprets the highlights of that classic, golden age.

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.

The theme Somewhere gets inspiration from wonderful scenes. People have been limited from vacation, party, and outdoor dining for a long time under the epidemic. To satisfy the desire and expectation, these wonderful scenes are delivered to people in a concrete way, making dreams come true. Embracing nature and touching the newborn freely, everywhere you go is a trip.

Pink is always a tone for childishness and cuteness. The lively Seashell Pink represents human's new hopes. This innocent and tender tone is loved by many modern youngsters. Desaturated pink is matched with other gentle colors on kidswear to create an avant-garde visual effect.

Animism draws color inspiration from all the living beings in the natural world. Everything is growing wildly for revival. From the very beginning of a day, the color shift in the sky chants the most beautiful rhyme; the charming landscapes in the spring reflect the purest hues; inspired by our daily lives, things are fused as one to provide great liveliness.