Eiseman says: "Just as we reached for coloured crayons as children, giving us the freedom to create, colour still offers the opportunity for creative expression and enables us to escape and fantasise."
“Pink provokes strong feelings of attraction and revulsion”. It is the most divisive of colors. Our ideas of pink have changed constantly during history in culture, art and fashion.
What is joy? It’s an intense momentary experience of positive emotion (the feeling of wanting to jump up and down).
For men, this year, we are announcing...the return of the Hawaiian shirt (or the aloha-shirt).
We talk quite a bit about the colors that suit us and those that are not necessarily as flattering, but what about mixing and matching colors?
As Roland Barthes once stated, “…Clothing concerns all of the human person, all of the body, all of the relationships of man to body as well as the relationships of the body to society…”
Some consider fashion as empty, superficial and a waste of time and money. Others use it as a mode of expressing their identity and freedom.
Some people think color is immaterial, not very important, especially in fashion. Others, like Leatrice Eiseman or “Ms. Color in America” and Director of the Pantone Color Institute, believe color exerts powerful forces on the human mind.