The Best In Color: June week 1

In an attempt to have some sort of schedule to my life I’ve decided to start a new series of Friday posts featuring my favorite colorful bits from each week- here goes week one!

Visionaire 56 Solar- The legendary and always fashionable publication Visionaire has teamed with the legendary and again always fashionable Calvin Klein Collection to create a coffee table book like no other. Featuring an all white embroidered cover and filled to the brim with black and white images from famed photographers, the $250 book is sure to impress your friends- especially when you take it outside and surprise them to the fact that when the book is exposed to direct UV rays it’s cover and pages reveal themselves in full-on, painterly color!

Color Mixologists- Could mixing colorful patterns be this summer’s most playful look?  Earlier this week, First Lady Michelle Obama’s mix and match sweater set from The Gap caused a fashion buzz ( seen here at a luncheon with an equally stylish Nancy Reagan) while on the same day Marc Jacobs unveiled his Resort 2010 line in New York- revealing that he too loves the challenge of a good mix.

Hi-Tech Color: Just when you thought it was safe to go out in just sunscreen and a big floppy hat- Sephora touts Hi- Def foundation and powder.  Originally created for actors and newscasters, these specially ‘photochromatic’ pigmented make-up reflect light and promise to hide all imperfections even when put through the ‘6X magnification of an HD camcorder’ ringer.  Hmm…could next week’s national switch over to digital television make not only antennas but the ’sheer au natural look’ obsolete as well?

The Pairing Of Purple and Green: First I read this week that a survey by Proven Winners that the color purple is the number 1 favorite flower color of their customers, then I spot in the New York Times magazine’s Must Have Summer 2009 list these French classic outdoor chairs made over in some fresh new colors ( from Fernob available at DWR) and then an email with a sneak preview from Dedar’s Fall Fabric Collection arrives in my mailbox featuring these chairs.  Is the combo of purple and green this year’s Choc-Aqua?

Color-full Apps:Color lovers/iPhone users are rewarded with two free Apps this week.  Color Snap from Sherwin Williams and Ben Color Capture from Benjamin Moore both promising to match your favorite color inspiration to you walls quicker than you can twitter ‘I’m off to the paint store’!