Fall/Winter 2006-2007 Fashion Colors

Red is going to be Hot this Season, along with faded neutrals, faded salmon, powdery colors, reddish-purple, purple, burgundy, grey, greyed pastels, winter beige and moss green. A range of faded neutrals working around purplish tones, faded burgundies and greys with winter beiges. Softer, powdery colours, as if bleached, or else more greyed with a faded salmon a touch of acidic tones awaken this ambience.

The colours of the extensive vast grasslands and its vegetation dried out by severe cold: taupy tones, yellowed or greenish beiges and winter greyed blues. Faded colours which evoke molten glass, Celtic jewelry and ethnic embroideries. For outerwear and bottoms, a range of deep reddish and purplish colours. For tops, refined faded colours or more luminous, like gemstone. A range of neutrals either brightened or softened by filtered shades. For outerwear and bottoms warm garnet, a uniform blue and a sober stone-grey. For tops, greyed pastels as cyclamen pink, oak and moss.

Pantone Fall 2006 Fashion Report

• Pantone reports that the European retail market for winter 2006/2007 is showing a transition from bold colors to monochrome. Simple, streamlined, clean, textures. Colors sound like they will be coming from nature again - fruits, flowers, earth, spices, metal, deep grassy and ocean colors, smoky colors, deep purples … the brighter colors used as accents. A lot of dusty, brushed textures. What can this mean to photography? Color trends flow into all aspects of a client’s event - clothes, flowers, decor, food, candles - and affects the entire mood and lighting.
• Just as day turns to twilight, Fall 2006 colors are a subtle deepening of the world around, lit with the final glow of the turning horizon. New York designers have found themselves in a sanctuary of color, filled with the constancy of nightfall.

Pantone Spring 2007 Fashion Report

• New York fashion designers are flourishing in a season of new beginnings, using surprising neutrals with innovative splashes of corals, yellows and purples to create a spring in bloom.Tarragon is the freshly cut stem to the blossoming shades of sweet Strawberry Ice, warm Golden Apricot and violet-infused Hollyhock. Cafe Creme is the rich, creamy contrast to the serenity of calming Sky Blue or the deliciousness of refreshing Grapemist. The yellow glow of gleaming Green Sheen and the blushing beauty of diaphanous Silver Peony reflect the infusion of life brought by spring.

Fashion Trendsetter quoted the Asahi Kasei Spandex Group Europe saying:

“. . . white is in competition [with black] and looking to get front stage this summer and to become the season’s star. Pure, buttery, creamy and tinted. Retro feeling and grandmother’s white linen; whites also as a sign for ‘Kaballa’ influences. Whites and neutrals have traces of color and are here and there accompanied by real colors. Real colors need the neutrals, they move into each others direction and influence each other.”

They also predict that fabrics will lean to the textured, layered, washed, natural effect … almost “geological.”

Fall 2006 is a heavy metal season. Headliners include The Lames, The Brocades, and other shiny fabrics. The Napoleonic look includes a shift to militaristic gear fit for Napoleon.

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