ProExpression

S/S 2027/28

FASHION FORECAST

TREND OVERVIEW

<b>Four Pillars of Professional Expression</b><div><b><br></b><div>The ProExpression movement encompasses four distinct yet complementary style categories:</div><div><br></div><div><b>Executive Elevated</b> - Sophisticated luxury pieces that command respect while showcasing refined personal taste through premium materials, impeccable tailoring, and subtle statement details.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Commuter Active </b>- Versatile outdoor-inspired pieces designed for the modern professional who moves between urban environments, blending performance functionality with polished aesthetics.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Scholarly Casual </b>- Relaxed business attire with collegiate influences that maintains professionalism while embracing comfort and approachable sophistication.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Metropolitan Utility -</b> Urban workwear that combines industrial durability with contemporary design, perfect for professionals who value both style and practicality.</div><div>Each category offers today's workforce a framework for building a wardrobe that reflects both their professional aspirations and personal identity, creating a new standard where authenticity and professionalism coexist seamlessly.</div></div>

<b>Four Pillars of Professional Expression</b><div><b><br></b><div>The ProExpression movement encompasses four distinct yet complementary style categories:</div><div><br></div><div><b>Executive Elevated</b> - Sophisticated luxury pieces that command respect while showcasing refined personal taste through premium materials, impeccable tailoring, and subtle statement details.</div><div><b>Commuter Active </b>- Versatile outdoor-inspired pieces designed for the modern professional who moves between urban environments, blending performance functionality with polished aesthetics.</div><div><b>Scholarly Casual </b>- Relaxed business attire with collegiate influences that maintains professionalism while embracing comfort and approachable sophistication.</div><div><b>Metropolitan Utility -</b> Urban workwear that combines industrial durability with contemporary design, perfect for professionals who value both style and practicality.</div><div>Each category offers today's workforce a framework for building a wardrobe that reflects both their professional aspirations and personal identity, creating a new standard where authenticity and professionalism coexist seamlessly.</div></div>

Trend concept:The workplace business fashion under the name 'Corpcore' has been picked up again, no longer limited to traditional definitions, but has become synonymous with inclusivity and innovation. This article is divided into four cutting-edge trends: high intelligence and luxury, outdoor commuting, college light business, and urban workwear. Each style provides a unique and distinctive fashion interpretation for the new generation of professionals.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Trend elements:</div><div><br></div><div>Sleek pleats, streamlined tuck, collar structure, cuff design, back panel design, minimalist large pockets, innovative labeling, commuter shirt, light mature polo shirt, new-style suit, innovative trousers, commuter setetc.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>

DESCENTE ALLTERRAIN

DESCENTE ALLTERRAIN's "I/O" product line has released the 24/25 autumn/winter capsule series, which still focuses on the business style that shuttles through the city, carefully creating a series of items including functional suit sets, knitwear, and shirts.

pet-tree-kor - <span style="background-color: transparent;">Opening the first store</span>

The brand pet tree kor has opened its first concept store in Shanghai, which cleverly weaves a visual narrative of the interdependence and symbiosis between plants and architecture, striving to reproduce the vibrant natural scenery of the early stages of urban planning and provide customers with a spatial experience about green living philosophy.

PVP

PURPOSE

VALUE

Product

The ProExpression blazer trend translates into four key design approaches: **Executive Elevated** features architectural shoulders, luxe hybrid fabrics, and statement hardware for sophisticated personality expression; **Commuter Active** integrates performance materials, modular elements like removable hoods, and tech features for mobile professionals; **Scholarly Casual** embraces vintage academic details, relaxed proportions, and textural mixing of corduroy and tweed for approachable sophistication; while **Metropolitan Utility** incorporates industrial-inspired cargo pockets, urban armor aesthetics, and workwear heritage elements—each allowing authentic self-expression while maintaining professional credibility through innovative materials and contemporary silhouettes.

The ProExpression blazer trend translates into four key design approaches: **Executive Elevated** features architectural shoulders, luxe hybrid fabrics, and statement hardware for sophisticated personality expression; **Commuter Active** integrates performance materials, modular elements like removable hoods, and tech features for mobile professionals; **Scholarly Casual** embraces vintage academic details, relaxed proportions, and textural mixing of corduroy and tweed for approachable sophistication; while **Metropolitan Utility** incorporates industrial-inspired cargo pockets, urban armor aesthetics, and workwear heritage elements—each allowing authentic self-expression while maintaining professional credibility through innovative materials and contemporary silhouettes.

<b>Authenticity over Conformity</b> - Prioritizing genuine self-representation over traditional dress codes<div><b>Inclusivity and Diversity -</b> Embracing all genders, ages, and professional levels in workplace fashion</div><div><b>Quality and Innovation</b> - Valuing craftsmanship, performance materials, and forward-thinking design</div><div><b>Flexibility and Adaptability </b>- Seeking clothing that transitions seamlessly between different professional contexts</div><div><b>Personal Empowerment </b>- Using fashion as a tool for confidence-building and professional identity</div><div><b>Sustainability through Longevity -</b> Investing in versatile, well-made pieces that serve multiple purposes</div><div><b>Community and Belonging -</b> Finding connection with like-minded professionals who value self-expression</div><div><b>Efficiency and Practicality </b>- Choosing clothing that enhances rather than restricts daily productivity</div>

Color trend showcases a color matrix centered around gray and pastel tones, including Warm Taupe, Aragon, Country Air, Dutch Canal, Zinc, Cherry Tomato, and Rhubarb, aimed at resonating with the workplace fashion needs of Generation Z. This trend is divided into two main themes: "comfortable commuting" and "top students in the workplace", cleverly integrating various trendy concepts such as high intelligence, quiet luxury, outdoor commuting, college light business, and urban workwear.

The first set of color combinations emphasizes the harmony of low saturation, using the clever combination of Country Air, Warm Taupe, and Aragon to create a gray pastel color scheme, giving the overall combination a fresh summer atmosphere. The addition of gray brown and White Alyssum not only enriches the color hierarchy, but also creates a comfortable visual experience suitable for summer commuting; Another combination is based on gray brown and White Alyssum, embellished with Warm Taupe and Aragon, accurately capturing the young professionals' pursuit of vibrant summer colors. Cleverly integrating lively colors into traditional business attire, it conforms to Generation Z's trendy understanding of professional attire.

The first set of colors draws inspiration from Miu Miu's design, with Ancora Red as the key color in this series continuing its influence. The combination of Dutch Canal, Ocean Cavern, and Zinc cleverly balances the freshness of summer with the rigor of the workplace, while the embellishment of Cherry Tomato adds highlights to the overall shape. The other set of configurations has removed the Cherry Tomato and instead established a low-key luxury foundation with Zinc. Ancora Red and Dutch Canal are used as auxiliary colors to enhance the fashion forward sense, and the integration of deep sea cave colors further deepens the overall business tone.

Seal Brown + White Alyssum + Warm Taupe +<div><br></div><div>Country Air + Aragon</div>

Rosso Ancora + Dutch Canal + Ocean Cavern + Zinc + Cherry Tomato

Style Directions

The "smart beauty" workplace business fashion, with a sense of sophistication and refinement as its core and infused with the aesthetic blood of the new era, has become popular again in contemporary times.

Intellectual Luxury

Business Liesure

Urban Workwear

Outdoor Commuting

Style Directions

As a new trend in contemporary urban workplace clothing, the new Corpcore accurately captures and responds to the dressing needs of the modern workplace environment, subdivided into four cutting-edge trends: high intelligence and luxury, outdoor commuting, college light business, and urban workwear. Each style provides a unique and distinctive fashion interpretation for the new generation of professionals.

The "smart beauty" workplace business fashion, with a sense of sophistication and refinement as its core and infused with the aesthetic blood of the new era, has become popular again in contemporary times.

Style-Intellectual Luxury

Brand Recommendation- Margaret Howell

Margaret Howell's design philosophy is rooted in conveying a relaxed, simple, elegant, and fun minimalist style. The brand is committed to simplifying the contours of daily clothing, presenting a modern, high-quality, and luxurious brand tone through practical yet exquisite design, with high-quality color matching as the core.

Key Items- Contrast Lapel

Key Items

Prince of Wales Workwear Jacket

Blazer with Luxury Logo

blason classic jacket in cashmere wool

Breaking through traditional boundaries, using high-performance outdoor fabrics, reshaping the lines and contours of suits, introducing flexible design elements such as zipper disassembly, cleverly integrating casual style with modern minimalist aesthetics, meeting the needs of multi scene transitions from business to leisure.

New School Suit

Key Item- Boxy soft blazers

Integrating outdoor sports elements with traditional business attire, through multifunctional vests, urban trench coats, technological sun protection clothing and other items, paired with classic shirts, not only meets the needs of daily commuting, but also takes into account the comfort and protective performance of wearing, demonstrating the modern workplace's pursuit of flexibility and practicality.

Style 2- Outdoor Commuting

The BOSS 2025 Spring/Summer collection kicked off with the concept of "Out of Office" in a surreal garden scene at the Palazzo Cenato in Milan. This series deeply interprets the philosophy of "Out of Office" after work through runway styling, not only subverting the boundaries of formal attire, but also encouraging individual freedom of expression and promoting a fashionable new attitude of harmonious living.

Brand Recommendation- BOSS

AURALEE is accustomed to integrating practicality and fashion, extending its series of designs with changes in occasions, creating a classic wearable style, seamlessly connecting daily and leisure scenes, and showcasing a highly adaptable wearing experience.

Brand Recommendation- Auralee

Suit+Activewear

Boggi Milano Madison sweatshirt jacket

Key Item- Outdoor Waist Belt Blazer

Oblique Jacket with Buttoned Strap and CD Icon Embroidery

The harmonious matching of the same color scheme is not limited to the classic combination of suit and pants, but also explores innovative suit solutions such as suit+shorts or jacket+shorts, as well as complete matching with shirt as the core, providing diversified dressing solutions for urban commuters.

Commuter Set

Style 3- Business Leisure

This style returns to the classic of the academy, yet still maintains the rigor of business. With more vivid color combinations and lightweight material choices, it injects youthful vitality into traditional business attire. Special emphasis is placed on the use of neckties and other accessories, which not only serve as embellishments to enhance the overall sense of layering, but also convey the confidence and unrestrained spirit of young professionals in the workplace.

GXG PF2024 campaign has carefully planned a series of college commuting styles, aiming to provide inspiration for commuting fashion for modern professionals. This series emphasizes distinctive jacket designs, injecting strong fashion elements into daily professional wear, showcasing the brand's innovative spirit and fashion insight.

Brand Recommendation- GXG

This style is a modern deconstruction and recreation of traditional workwear aesthetics, achieving an elegant transformation of workwear through the combination of simple lines and lightweight fabrics, making it suitable for urban business scenes. It not only retains the pragmatic essence of workwear, but also integrates the competence and efficiency of business attire, reflecting the balanced philosophy of modern youth's pursuit of comfort and professional image.

Urban Workwear

ANTIOFF extensively uses techniques such as loose leaf, deconstruction, and curved cutting in its design, with its core concept centered around commuting, workwear, and outdoor activities, pursuing long-term value. The brand focuses on the texture and practicality of clothing through a minimalist design language, striving to create high-quality clothing that is close to daily life. The overall style is low-key and introverted, blending the casual and free spirited elements of American retro style.

Brand Recommendation- ANTIOFF

Brand Recommendation- NTN

Japanese emerging brand NTN has released its 2025 Spring/Summer collection lookbook, which still deconstructs and reorganizes daily silhouettes in the context of new workwear. Stand up workwear jackets, MA-1, and suit sets all present simple and loose silhouettes. The integration of washed denim fabric and metallic nylon material gives the entire collection a diverse and inclusive styling attribute.

Key Item- Business Leisure

RELAXED SHORT BLAZER

Key Item- Elastane Sporty Blazer

Key Item- Layered Professional Blazers

This season's design direction focuses on the interesting design of details, with a focus on neat pleats, simple tuck, collar structure, cuff design, back design, and minimalist large pockets. The aim is to inject leisure interest and creative vitality into business and workplace clothing through innovative minimalist techniques, thereby breaking through traditional style boundaries and shaping a new professional fashion context.

Key Details

Emphasizing the deep application of structural aesthetics, through precise three-dimensional design, dynamic streamlined pleats are used in the back and hem areas to enhance the visual hierarchy and flexibility of clothing when worn.

Neat Pleating

Using classic vertical stripe patterns, presented in a regular arrangement, and created a simple and layered visual effect through local embellishment and deconstruction techniques. This design not only embodies minimalist aesthetics, but also enhances the overall texture of the clothing through clever detail processing.

Key Details- Simple Tuck

By structurally transferring and asymmetrically designing traditional collar styles, such as side collars, extended loops, and multi-level layered collars, a unique charm that combines light luxury urban style with exquisite leisure feeling is demonstrated. In addition, the use of material comparison and micro deconstruction techniques further enhances the richness and complexity of design details, making each piece unique and ingenious.

Collar Structure

The fusion of sleek slit design, reinforced structure with insert details, leather edge treatment, metal decoration, and innovative buckle decoration not only enhances practicality but also showcases delicate craftsmanship aesthetics.

Cuff Design

Exploring the clever contraction of pleats, the art of back printing, the invisible integration of metal zippers, local deconstruction design, and precise stitching techniques, every detail showcases the ingenuity of the design.

Back Design

Adopting a large pocket design with a half body size, combined with a minimalist patch pocket concept and metal accessories embellishment, the asymmetrical layout adds a modern feel, balancing practicality and aesthetics.

Minimalist Large Pocket

Key Accessories-Innovative Labels

Using heterogeneous materials to create small labels or creative brand logos (such as small leather labels or woven labels) not only adds unique personality to individual products, but also greatly enhances brand recognition. This approach effectively combines functionality and decoration, and is one of the effective means to enhance product market competitiveness.

The urban mix and match trend emphasizes innovative interpretation and diverse combinations of classic items to achieve free style crossing and personalized expression, meeting the dressing needs and aesthetic pursuits of modern urbanites in different occasions. Selected items focus on enhancing the texture and practicality of daily wear, including innovative commuting shirts, new school suit designs, innovative trousers, and commuting suits.

KEY ITEMS

Casual Shirt

Emphasis is placed on the selection of lightweight and breathable fabrics, integrating functional and aesthetic details such as clever pocket decorations, exquisite edge stitching techniques, and innovative design of the collar structure, aiming to balance professional image and personal expression.

Incorporating modern design concepts such as hollow knitting techniques, color blocked collar treatment, and geometric layout, a new polo shirt with a mid sleeve silhouette has been created. This series of designs not only maintains the basic characteristics of the original style, but also gives it a more fashionable and avant-garde atmosphere by introducing novel elements, retaining a bit of youthfulness and formality in the modern commuting style.

Polo Shirt

New School Suit

Breaking through traditional boundaries, using high-performance outdoor fabrics, reshaping the lines and contours of suits, introducing flexible design elements such as zipper disassembly, cleverly integrating casual style with modern minimalist aesthetics, meeting the needs of multi scene transitions from business to leisure.

Innovative Suitpants

On the basis of retaining classics, innovation is carried out by incorporating workwear style patch bag design, deconstruction of the ankle, and creative cutting of the pants legs, emphasizing the balance between functionality and fashion, and enhancing the comfort and visual level of wearing.

Emphasis is placed on the selection of lightweight and breathable fabrics, integrating functional and aesthetic details such as clever pocket decorations, exquisite edge stitching techniques, and innovative design of the collar structure, aiming to balance professional image and personal expression.

Casual Shirt

Incorporating modern design concepts such as hollow knitting techniques, color blocked collar treatment, and geometric layout, a new polo shirt with a mid sleeve silhouette has been created. This series of designs not only maintains the basic characteristics of the original style, but also gives it a more fashionable and avant-garde atmosphere by introducing novel elements, retaining a bit of youthfulness and formality in the modern commuting style.

Polo Shirt

Innovative Suitpants

On the basis of retaining classics, innovation is carried out by incorporating workwear style patch bag design, deconstruction of the ankle, and creative cutting of the pants legs, emphasizing the balance between functionality and fashion, and enhancing the comfort and visual level of wearing.

Shirt+Sunscreen+Pants

Shirt+Sunscreen+Pants

Suit+Activewear

Minimalist Jacket+Shirt

Shirt+Sunscreen+Pants

Key Outfit- Sweatshirt+Shirt

Visual Display

Wooden materials can be extensively used in the store, combined with square partitions and linear lighting fixtures, to create a warm and aesthetically pleasing space. The black elements are cleverly integrated into the overall design, creating a contrast between depth and shade, further highlighting the minimalist design philosophy. The hanger part adopts a combination of dark and light colors to ensure a sense of order in the product display, presenting a soft and highly inclusive atmosphere. The overall color scheme of the store can be based on cream or light blue-green tones, incorporating classic French minimalist style to meet the target customer group's pursuit of quality life.

Trend Summary

Office Newcomer

New School Suit

New Edges

The workplace business fashion under the name 'Corpcore' has been picked up again, no longer limited to traditional definitions, but has become synonymous with inclusivity and innovation. This article is divided into four cutting-edge trends: high intelligence and luxury, outdoor commuting, college light business, and urban workwear. Each style provides a unique and distinctive fashion interpretation for the new generation of professionals.

Breaking through traditional boundaries, using high-performance outdoor fabrics, reshaping the lines and contours of suits, introducing flexible design elements such as zipper disassembly, cleverly integrating casual style with modern minimalist aesthetics, meeting the needs of multi scene transitions from business to leisure.

As a new trend in contemporary urban workplace clothing, the new Corpcore accurately captures and responds to the dressing needs of modern workplace environments. Through minimalist innovative methods, it injects leisure interest and creative vitality into business workplace clothing, shaping a new professional fashion context.

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