Pink is the new Pale Green - Color Trends in Fashion & Design

creative industries to borrow from one another a great deal sometimes & how many creative fields that can encompass will vary depending on the strength of the movement. something like, say, the bauhaus movement ran the gamut from traditional art to graphic design, architecture, fashion & industrial design. i think it's been a long time since we've seen anything powerful enough to effect all those industries.

but when it comes to the recent trends (light green last season, violate before that) that you mentioned (which i haven't noticed to be honest) - i think it's too convoluted to even begin to understand where it may've started or where the next could begin. basically one designer (fashion, graphic or whatever) may come up with an original/pleasing colour schematic and that could be picked up by others in that field. after that it's a matter of creatives in other fields picking up on that or disregarding it and there's no way to say what will or won't take off. predicting the how/when/who is really hard to do imho.

i know ladyshorts are in. but i thought pairing them with leggings would be a better look.

Film also seems to have an effect, if only for the novelty showstopping pieces that make it into the papers the next day. It wouldn't surprise me to see a few Troy-style leather blokeskirts being paraded about.

This is actually pretty easy to do - the light green you speak of has been replaced by a green-tea colour which looks great in interiors next to red. It is also the same green as is on a Moskovskaya vodka bottle.

A few years ago when fuchsia and red were worn together, that was down to particular clothes designed by Veronique Braquinho (Antwerp designer) and the colourways were easy to duplicate even if you couldn't find the clothes. Also another classic is the wearing of colours in the Burberry schematic but not yer actual Burbs.

There are colour forecasters which are used by all the big manufacturers and department stores who have to be two years ahead of message. If you want to know, for example, which homeware colours will be mainstream in three years, look at the Milan Furniture Fair this year.

I always have theories about fashion designers being inspired by Douglas Sirk films watched on a hangover as the colours are so good.

When I am in London, I am generally concentrating on where I am going, and who I'm talking to once I get there, or else looking at architecture, the posters on the way up the escalator on the Tube etc, and so not giving the clothes of strangers my full attantion. Sorry.

I agree that peachy-pink wouldn't suit Archel. The idea that *anyone* could look like an indigestion tablet is one that would never have occurred to me. Why do different colours suit different ppl? I guess a lot of it is to do with their complexion, hair and so forth. there's more to it, tho i'm not sure what? Do sombre people just look wrong in bright clothing and happy ppl look wrong in drab clothing?

pale green makes me think of toothpaste, mint and the like. I'm not sure it looks good on anyone, unless it's something small like a belt or a tie.

Beginning of the thrift-store paisley shirt hunt (ta, Roddy Frame photo shoot)

Houndstooth/dogtooth - Morrissey/Annie Lennox

but then shoes are a different kettle of fish as we all know.

Why is it so fucking hard to buy a shirt which is not disgusting and shiny

Because there's an entire industry & structure making decisions as to what the non-rich punters are going to have to choose from - somebody, somewhere, decides what your options are going to be 'this season' or some such shite.
You have to keep an eye out for a window of opportunity, then jump through it - eg for what seemed like at least 15 years the only shirts readily available were basic white, light blue, and some horrible insipid 'pastel' colours - then about 4 yrs ago the High St chains were all temporarily full of dark blues/reds/greens. I promptly grabbed my opportunity, and over a period of months bought about 20 shirts in these various darker hues. Of course the frequency at which I actually use them probably means I'll be wearing one for the first time inside a lidded box as it's lowered/incinerated.....

And I'm still waiting for somebody somewhere to decide that ties can go back to:
(a) plain colours with no textures/patterns/cartoon characters
(b) less than 3-4 inches wide, without putting you into C&W bootlace or Mod revival territory.

(Another bugbear - trying to get men's overcoats/raincoats that are longer than knee-length. You have to get those 'Aussie Outback' dust sheet things that make you look stupid if you're less than 6'2", or go Army Surplus (which is fine, but not smart enough for certain occasions).
If you're quite well-off, you can probably find lovely long black overcoats at Swankers or Tufti or whatever - but High St Punter Scum can usually just forget it....
(haha I actually found one from 'Next' in winter 97-98, and thus bought 2 as insurance while they were around. Clothes storing as squirrelly behaviour...)

- Snowy Mann , December 11th, 2002.

The thing that's really really really pissing me off over these past years (as a replacement for annoyance at the inevitability of beige in the PC world - lot's easier to avoid these last 5 yrs or so) is how most UK audio/video domestic electronics equipment (espec. widescreen TV's, & Videorecs) has become overwhelmingly a choice between silver, more silver, or more fuxoring silver
oh for the good old days of BLACK or silver...

(the very occasional 'plastic wood effect' telly still makes an appearance, for fans of curly-leg wooden chairs and occasional tables, i suppose...i was telling someone the other day that I grew up with a telly that still had sliding wooden doors on the front of it, as if trying to avoid frightening the populace by making them look like sideboards)

sony have finally begun to mix black into some of their latest w/screen TV fascias again - i hope more design lemmings creatives across the industry respond...

In other fashion questions, what about brown for winter? and do brown and blue look ok together? (I tend think not)

WHY CAN'T I SET THE COLOR OF THIS THREAD

Hmmm.

Thing is, it won't work twice on the same page.

I don't like when the page gets hard to read or whatever. Like, in the context of the subject of this thread, it's kinda funny to change it pink, but threads where the background goes to some dark image and the text is still black... bah on that!

La boite a couleurs

I've memorized way way more hex color values than I'd like to admit, and about half the time I can even guess pretty closely if I have a color in mind (except apparently not so well with pinks). Sigh... A side effect of my job...

Chromograf (English version)

It's a job. It doesn't make me puke, but it doesn't make me jump out of bed in the morning and rush to work either. Heheh. That's about the size of it.

I think the pantone people decide whats in.

I'm better at the coding part I think. Or at least less limited. There are a few styles in which I work really well designing, but then there's pretty much nothing I can't code. (And I do a great deal of stuff like coding without tables and using XHTML and CSS standards and all that.) For the most part, I'll design my personal site, some stuff for friends and maybe the occasional freelance site if somebody is a good match for my style. Then my day job (just like now) is usually more on the codey side since my resume, experience and strengths pretty much guarantee I'll make better scratch doing that. (And I like it fine too... It's not like I'm begrudgingly doing the code thing because I can't "break into" design.)

are there any other sites or links (btw thanx kate!) that have to do with this?

Anyway, I think turquoise is going to be the next it color. I can feel it in my bones.

I understand the only white walls thing. My problem with white walls though is that they get dirty easily and only look good when freshly painted. Plus, to pull off the white walls effect I think you need to be meticulously neat.

I have painted all the walls in my house white except all the east walls are colors. The living room/dining room is cobalt blue with light blue random/racing stripes and 2 lone thin silver stripes (i wanted the stripes to look like sound bars for random noise), my bedroom wall is red and the 2nd bedroom, my friend did a chocolate brown, mustard yellow, white and red 70's textiley design. It looks pretty awesome, because I was questioning his plan initially. I should take pictures.

that's where creative lighting comes in!

Today I am wearing a nearly knee-length pale pink v-neck mohair jumper with a white t-shirt, black spandex groupie trousers and black patent wedge boots.

For spring/summer I am saving this whole slew of turquoise dead stock items from the late '50s that I've had forever but haven't felt like wearing (they belonged to my grandmother) but whose time is coming.

Can everyone please stop wearing suede stripey sneakers at this point? They're so boring I want to drown. K thanks.

http://www.zappos.com/images/724/7149724/827-165175-d.jpg

Color schemas in T-shirts: At Old Navy the other day, there were about 20 tank tops in varying shades of blues, reds, etc. Like, if you wanted a light blue tank top, but there are 3 different variations of that light blue. How could you choose? So I got a white T-shirt. It's like you need a consultant to help you decide. Same thing happened at Americal Apparel. I wanted a light blue tank top, they had several variations on the theme--I went home with kind of blue/slate grey-y affair. Is it because they think you will buy every single color bc you can't decide which one you want?

http://i9.ebayimg.com/02/i/03/2a/43/06_1_b.JPG

But yeah, suede shoes require you look at the weather before choosing your shoes, which kinda adds an unnecessary step to the day.

Ok, you're right. I'm a sucker.

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/straightlazylacing.htm
http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/straightlazylacing6.gif

The suede one up there look more like:

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/displayshoelacing.htm
http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/displayshoelacing6.gif

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/latticelacing1.jpg

My nice brown suede Pumas are already fucked. I've had them for a month. I clearly should have just waited, but I was drawn into Le Foot Sportif by the window display. Sucker.

I'm thinking dark brown is going to be my 2005 color of choice, though; in addition to the shoes I've already bought two polo shirts and two button-downs thus far.

Runner-up is the jade green blazer I found for $3 at the Salvation Army in Fulton, NY; it's a totally perfect complement to the Thomas Pink shirt that I spent far, far too much money on when my tax refund came. Jade green and light pink feel a bit foppish together, but I'm confident that once spring comes - if spring comes - I'll be rocking it. Or looking like I just won the Masters.

is that like a Tarantino thing?

Brilliant red sneakers (trainers, ya' limeys), fadey blue jeans, white shirt and white hat. I am a fashion demigod.

I'm fantasizing about painting my apartment. I do this every once in a while, but never follow through because I'm indecisive and it's expensive and time-consuming and blah ti blah...

Anyway, I really love the color scheme on Six Feet Under - mostly retro greens and blues and purples. I'm thinking I need my apartment to look warmer, mostly because it is freakin' freezing most of the year here in Chicago. Also, seventies colors are comforting since that's what I grew up with. But how could I paint the walls to look kind of retro but keep them looking fresh?

159 Mb in total & very much worth it, IMHO:

http://www.r243g197b208.net/video/white_adicolor_large.mov
http://www.r243g197b208.net/video/red_adicolor_large.mov
http://www.r243g197b208.net/video/blue_adicolor_large.mov
http://www.r243g197b208.net/video/yellow_adicolor_large.mov
http://www.r243g197b208.net/video/green_adicolor_large.mov
http://www.r243g197b208.net/video/pink_adicolor_large.mov
http://www.r243g197b208.net/video/black_adicolor_large.mov

(I like them all, but Pink is so creepy it has to be a favorite)

(but I still like them, though)