POP Fashion released the Spring/Summer 2023 color trend ‘Metaverse’ in January 2022. The palette of Metaverse is grouped by futuristic and scientific colors to underline the distorted digital visual effect, which brings newness and also practicality. Neutral gray and black explore the practical application of trendy colors. Saturated electronic colors are decorated for a futuristic approach. The color scheme fusing blues and greens is extremely dreamy and distorted, while the lustrous, metallic touch of purple combines digital virtuality with the real world and endows avant-garde street fashion with powerful expressions.

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.

Grayish pastels are evolved to have mineral textures in Spring/Summer 2023 to satisfy people’s appetite for classic gentle hues. Comfy high-quality underwear/loungewear displays women’s confidence and focuses on the self-pleasing experience.

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Healing candy tones can soothe one’s inner blank and anxiety, and bring warmth and vitality. Girlish hues such as Pearl Blush(PANTONE 12-1207TPG), Egret(PANTONE 11-0103TPG), Cyclamen(PANTONE 16-3118TPG), Sky Blue(PANTONE 14-4318TPG) and Lavender(PANTONE 15-3817TPG) finish a candy-tone colorway. Saturated green and fluorescent red are also added to attract more young consumers.

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.

Pink Carnation sends out the fragrance of blooming flowers. This warm and romantic color develops going-out wear for toddlers in spring and summer.

Retro Time delivers new-era kids’ emotional expressions toward the old times. Various throwback moments and scenes are reproduced to recollect the golden age and start an escapist journey in summer. Joyful colors and classic elements are fused to reinterpret a vacation style that combines current age with the past. Retro Time hopes to offer a time filter to children to create a romantic atmosphere and hold a self-healing party, enjoying the passion of sunny beaches and the peacefulness in forests.

Metaverse gives a futuristic sci-fi palette which accents the visual effects of materials and digital abstract. Neutral tones are widely used to explore the practical color trend. Blue and green are fused for a fantastic feeling. The purple hue of metallic color simulates the imagination about material contrasts and mixes the virtual space with the reality. Chic elements are also injected into kidswear design to strengthen the color fluidity.

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.

Driven by the contemporary avant-garde art, suspicious attitude and rational expressions integrate a unique aesthetic and art form into the design and rebuild the styles for young ladies. Experimental mixes redefine the lifestyles of T-shirts. The palette of Mixed Expression infuses a shade of gray into the bright atmosphere for harmony. Tonal coordinates and color contrasts both bring brand new visual feelings.

Cyclamen is a joyful and practical hue which sets right between pink and purple. This unique warm tone emphasizes the hedonism and youthfulness. The fresh and rejuvenated touch awakes people’s hope and exudes a delighted atmosphere. The elevated and comfy tonal palette brought by Cyclamen attracts the market.

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 palette of Animism is sourced from the natural world. Minimalist and gentle spectrum colors soothe our minds. Environmental practicers who pursue the recycling and regeneration are exploring the natural art and inner power with an adventurous spirit. Minimalism is their core idea. As handicraft masters, they grow up freely in a pure environment and feel the living beings in artistic fields as floriculture, ceramic, painting, and photograph.

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.