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What's new about Colour Analysis?
Colour Analysis is really having a moment! Here’s what’s new about it and what you should get if you have one.
Sustainability and the link to personal style
Ever thought working on your personal style would enhance sustainability?
How to combine prints
Lots of people have warmed to combining prints these days, but what is the key to doing it well..? Carly Findlay helps us out here.
New reasons to have a colour analysis
Simplification and downsizing. There’s a new trend happening around colour analysis, and it’s looking promising for the environment! Read about the genesis for my book, COLOUR: the secret to creating a Sustainable Wardrobe.
Dressing for hospital - is it a thing?!
The art and science of dressing for hospital (let’s not take me too seriously here - lol - but read on regardless for some useful tips!)
The significance of colour
Living Coral; authentic and immersive, connection and intimacy, sociable and spirited…
Colour makes you quicker
Colour makes you quicker and lets you find the good stuff! Train your eye to filter out what you don’t need.
Breathing colour
The Design Museum, London – notes for other hardcore colour enthusiasts from Hella Jongerius’s exhibition and research. An object’s colour only becomes tangible through its material. Objects absorb, reflect and resonate colour and are influenced by the colours of surrounding objects.
Iris - Part 2
I thoroughly enjoy Iris Apfel’s refusal to fade away, as sadly so many women past a certain age do. Those who read my last blog post: Iris, part 1 will know this. It was reinforced when I recently saw ‘Iris‘ – the documentary by the late Albert Maysles. She succeeds in making a confident and colourful statement because she is not concerned with being ‘pretty’ or obsessed with trying to appear young, which often results in looking sad and dissatisfied with life.
Mix and match colours on the road
The photo is actually a shot of all the clothes I quickly threw together for a 10-day road trip up the east coast of Australia. Despite having plenty of space in the car for my stuff, I still wanted to ensure every item could be worn together so I didn’t have to think about what became dirty and what was still clean – anything I picked up to wear any day co-ordinated. Find out how to use the colour wheel and other colour facts to help you pack a capsule wardrobe that coordinates.
What colour is that dress???
Colour lesson 101: colour is relative. Whether I’m conducting a personal colour analysis or talking to groups about how colour works, this is the first thing I like to emphasise. And this is absolutely why there was so much debate about whether the dress chosen by Scottish mother of the bride, Cecilia Bleasdale, was gold and white or black and blue.