• fashion forecast | ss 2012 •
COLOURS Pale neutrals offer primitive and raw quality, which is a clear move from the stark and unprocessed white of Autumn Winter. Yellowed tones of ecru, vanilla and buttermilk are the key colours. Warm tones of peach, saffron and orange emerge, and brown appears as a single essential dark. There is a tinge of pinks in red and purple areas, creating a brownish cast to pale pinks with tea-stained dusky hues. As life-affirming warm reds have an orange cast in corals, intense fiery shades, deeper-baked reds and intense cochineal are the key colours. Layering of yellow is a key message. Retro vanilla, buttermilk, fresh primrose and yellow-green citrus tones are used. Also, green remains a key colour group. Yellow-green cast with gleaming olive shades and blue-green cast with the teals are being replaced by softer aqua and pine. Blue continues to remain as one
of the most changeable areas. Cool and clear blues move on from last summer’s turquoise to lilac-cast blue and indigo, which emerge as important colours. Purple and pink merge to give pinkhued purples and cool, blue-cast pinks. There is a desire for normality, anxiety, pleasure of the senses and simplicity. Also there is use of bright lights as opposed to deep darkness. Like the abundance of nature and the austerity of industrial architecture, we can go on playing with various opposites that will influence Spring Summer 2012. The season is open to many influences and poised to embrace new experiences that will take us along unusual chromatic and creative routes. Colours are divided into groups for easy reading, but their usage and combinations is totally unrestricted to allow scope for the unpredictable and for greater depth of emotion.
PANTONE 17-1663 TPX Bittersweet
PANTONE 19-2434 TPX Festival Fuchsia
PANTONE 17-1562 TPX Mandarin Red
PANTONE 18-2120 TPX Honeysuckle
PANTONE 16-1641 TPX Georgia Peach
PANTONE 16-2126 TPX Azalea Pink
PANTONE 16-1462 TPX Golden Poppy
PANTONE 16-1715 TPX Wild Rose
PANTONE 14-0941 TPX Beeswax
PANTONE 12-2903 TPX Light Lilac
PANTONE 12-0825 TPX Popcorn
PANTONE 12-1108 TPX Dew
PANTONE 18-5616 TPX Posy Green
PANTONE 12-4306 TPX Barely Blue
PANTONE 16-5425 TPX Pool Green
PANTONE 12-4604 TPX Skylight
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