color | pantone fashion colors

color authority pantone, which provides professional color standards for the design industries, published their fashion color report for fall 2012.  

the color report coincides with new york fashion week, which runs from 9-16 february 2012.

pantone fashion colors for fall 2012 | men and women

top row (left to right): titanium | french roast | honey gold | tangerine tango

bottom row (left to right): olympian blue | ultramarine green | bright chartreuse

photo credit wsj

notice the olympian blue, ultramarine green, and bright chartreuse?

'there's something happening here...'

'for what it's worth' | written by stephen stills | buffalo springfield | 1967

it looks like we really may be seeing a lot of facebook blue + twitter green...

color | pantone fashion colors

color authority pantone, which provides professional color standards for the design industries, published their fashion color report for fall 2011.  

the color report coincides with new york fashion week, which runs from 10-17 february 2011.

 pantone women's fashion colors for fall 2011

photo by pantone

pantone men's fashion colors for fall 2011

photo by pantone 

of course, honeysuckle pink, the pantone color of the year for 2011, is one of the women's fall fashion colors. 

notice how the other fall fashion colors mirror the color trends from design san francisco 2011?

kravet showroom | design san francisco 2011

photo by innerspace 

'designers take a painterly approach to fall 2011 by artfully combining bright colors with staple neutrals...'
leatrice eiseman, executive director of the pantone color institute 

hmmm, i think 'i've heard that song before'...

click here to read more about how interior designers use bright colors to accent neutral color schemes...