Color Trends for 2010
Every year the color trends for the season are announced by major players in the fashion and decorating industry. You will see these colors appear in every aspect of decorating or fashion from stoves to wastebaskets to purses to wedding gowns.
According to Pantone, the top the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries the colors we will see for spring are Turquoise, Tomato Puree (a pinkish red), Fusion Coral (a flesh toned coral), Violet, Tuscany (a mushroom neutral color), Aurora (a dull pale yellow), Amparo Blue (a bright blue), Pink Champagne (a mushroom toned pink, Dried Herb (an olive green) and Eucalyptus (a grey with a touch of olive.)
According to TFL Fashion and Color Inspirations the current trends for this winter and spring can be divided into three groups of ten colors. There is a Chic group, a Classic group and a Casual group.
The Chic group is dominated by solid and cold tones. There are a lot of midnight blue and deep pinks that are contrasted with lighter blues and dark browns.
The Classic group is characterized by crisp clean colors that are offset by earth tones in brown and gray. This is a more demure and archaic selection of hues.
The Casual colors contain juicy oranges, rip reds and numeral nuances that are contrasted with pavement grays.
The fashion group Stahl also does a quarterly prediction for color in fashion. This company gives color groups poetic names. For instance Unexpected Poetry involves colors that play with midnights and shades of black. Yet another group is called “Being the Fabulous” and features sugary pinks and blues. The third main group is called Artisan Richness and plays with the burnt oranges and dusty browns associated with the Wild West. Their fourth selection is called “Warrior Temper” and is filled with a mix of military greens and bright Asian reds and oranges.
Forecasting color is big business with these fashion groups who almost always get it right. They are very influential with every kind of designer – from make-up to furniture maker to shoes. What is interesting is that even those these groups are separate companies they come up with a lot of the same ideas about what color is going to be a hot color combination for spring.