Kale green, lapis blue and pink yarrow – according to Pantone, these are the colours you should be wearing next year.
If you remember the 80s, getting your colours ‘done’ was a big thing. But, as it turns out, while you might be a ‘spring’ or a ‘summer’, the colours you’re actually most likely to wear have already been decided for you.
Every year, the Pantone Color Institute reveals a range of colours they say are going to be ‘on trend’ for the upcoming season. There’s a fair bit of analysis that goes into predicting colours – the team examines everything from the economic climate to pop culture to determine which colours are likely to have the most influence during the season ahead.
If you’re thinking this all sounds a bit like The Devil Wears Prada – especially the infamous lecture Meryl Streep’s character Miranda Priestley delivers to poor Anne Hathaway’s character on the colour blue *ahem* we mean cerulean – then you’re right.
Pantone’s colour of year holds sway as the highest colour accolade, however each season they also release a report of colours to watch – and they’ve just announced their Fashion Colour Report for Spring 2017.
According to Pantone, the ten colours to watch are a mixture of vitality, relaxation and the outdoors.
“One of the things that we saw this year was a renewed sense of imagination in which colour was appearing in context that was different than the traditional,” says Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute.
“From the warmth of sunny days with PANTONE 13-0755 Primrose Yellow to the invigorating feeling of breathing fresh mountain air with PANTONE 18-0107 Kale and the desire to escape to pristine waters with PANTONE 14-4620 Island Paradise, designers applied color in playful, yet thoughtful and precise combinations to fully capture the promises, hope and transformation that we yearn for each Spring.”
One person who isn’t afraid to try out a full colour spectrum is the Duchess of Cambridge – you might have recently noticed her in a blue Jenny Packham dress as she touched down in Canada at the start of the Royal tour.
As it turns out, the fashion-forward princess was actually streets ahead of the masses, in the soon to be very on-trend colour of next season, Lapis Blue.
