Days and sometimes weeks before February starts each year we start seeing the month’s colors of love popping up everywhere. Shades of pink and red replace otherwise plain packing and store signage as we all gear up for Valentine’s Day. Yet the love festival is more than two dimensional in terms of color. The giving [...] Read more »
January Awards Show Color Wrap
Each year in January the so-called “awards season” kicks off with a series of ceremonies celebrating the best known names in entertainment. While it’s exciting to see who will be awarded for their performances, those of us that love color and fashion are often even more thrilled to see the beautiful gowns that stride down [...] Read more »
January Birthstone: Garnet
Modern sensibilities generally discount mystical things as not having true “scientific” value. Yet horoscopes are incredibly common, and when it comes to personal adornment, birthstones are even more popular. There’s something about the human psyche that enjoys identifying with a category and, in some ways, these categories help us construct our identities. (Right photo: skywalker.cochise.edu) [...] Read more »
Pantone COTY: A Fashion Retrospective
Color experts Pantone recently revealed their color of the year choice for 2011. Though 2010 was technically the first year of the decade, the even numbers feels like a tidier end to the first decade of the new millennium. Here we take a look at how Pantone’s year picks reflect (or were reflected by) colors [...] Read more »
Citrus Yellow Sweetens 2011 Fashion
Minimalism has ruled fashion lately, and with it neutral colors like camel, grey, black, and white have dominated. The serious mood descended upon the world of apparel as the global economy hit some turbulence. Wisely, designers, brands, and fashion consumers turned to staple items in durable colors as sensible choices. The economic climate has still [...] Read more »
