Happy Monday Everyone!
This is the second color forecast theme for 2011. As mentioned in last Monday’s post, the overall theme that dominates all color stories is Balance and Harmony. We saw it in the orderliness of the rows of fields and the connection to all things healthy in the Farm theme. In this week’s theme we are trying to create order out of the chaos of the past few years and what is still occurring around us. Whether it’s the unpredictability of the weather, to the many wars in different parts of the world; we are forced to prioritize and bring order to our lives.
We are seeing a “Classicism” reemerge in everything from fashion, lifestyles and architecture. I saw it happening about 3 years ago in fashion personally, just before I closed down my fashion studio. Structure and purity of form were just starting to show then and are very evident now.We are taking stock and the adage “Less is More” will strengthen as the year goes by. We are seeing, geometrics, dots and circles in arrays, stacking and outlining.
Shelving; Patchwork; Structure; Form; Shelving; Stripes; Pixels; Polka-dots; Circles; Geometrics; Fractals; Cubes; Anti-throwawayism; Less is more; Definition.
How will this theme affect color? We will see a throw back to simple color combinations; Primary colors; Black and White etc. The colors and forms of the 80′s is a great example.
I’ll show the colors, patterns and textures on Friday.
Cheers!
