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Want to know the autumn/winter 2022 fashion colors that will be trending?
- lilac
- emerald
- crimson
- cobalt blue
- burgundy
How are fashion colors decided ahead of time?
How this year’s ‘it’ color came to be
The year that went pinkyblue-
Surprise: Pantone’s Color of the Year is actually two colors
2022 color of the year is Very Peri.
When you guys see colors along with ads or certain scenes in TV shows or behind news anchors, those colors are there for bigger reasons than how pleasing they might be to look at. Colors mean things and can be encoded into our minds much the way smells are. Scents tie very strongly to emotional experiences and therefore memory, a great training tool. Colors are like this, too.
In farming, colored ear tags or leg rings (fowl) can instantly identify how old an animal or bird is if the color is tied to a hatch or birth year. We all know color on weather maps instantly lets us know what kind of precipitation to expect. Traffic and construction colors are standards. But there are many colors being used all the time all around us in many ways that we may never notice.
Colors are used to evoke. Some colors make us feel uncomfortable, like puke green on the walls of medical facilities, or brown carpet and furniture in lower level law or tax offices. Some colors make us feel more chipper, like bright primary colors in buildings where children are educated or taken care of, some children's wings in hospitals employ brighter colors. Colors instantly let us know when authorities and emergency crew are activated.
The fashion industry is a very huge business, and color is a very big deal. I don't know if you guys remember the emo/goth trend, which brought black stage front and center, and ever since then we've had things like 'orange is the new black', 'pink is the new black', 'blue is the new black', etc. I even saw 'white is the new black' somewhere one year.
We are guided by color trends, and if you read the linked articles up there, you know these trends are calculated, decided on, and put into production before they are even revealed to the public. They'd like us to think this color trending thing is a natural random push from all of us toward new favorites, but it's more like a code.
Did you know color hex charts are used to code some kinds of communications? There are color code conversion apps just like there are binary and ASCII. Did you know colors are used to signal changes in markets? It's very subtle, at least to us. When a color trend signals, everyone in media jumps on it in a variety of ways. That color will be incorporated into all kinds of things, but so subtly that we don't actually notice. It just feels more synchronized when the world we look at all around us is in the same hue, tint, tone, and shade.
Why am I saying all this? Because I keep noticing color usage and changes that other people around me seem not to notice. It all slides by them into their brains without awareness it's even happening.
The Shocking Truth About The Influence Of Colors
5 Crazy Ways the Colors Red and Blue Control Your Life
In Living Colour: Tyler the Creator
Film and TV are media known for their use of color with the hopes of manipulating the audience’s perception of what it is they are seeing and, in turn, feeling. It is the colorist’s job to alter and correct the colors that appear on your screen, frame by frame, shot by shot, making an attempt at aligning the footage itself with what we would perceive these colors to look like in the real world. Dave Markun, a colorist in film and tv, talks about this “rulebook of emotions” in which he believes that every color serves a different purpose and when used correctly can evoke a particular emotion within the viewer.
Color has a Powerful Effect on Behavior, Researchers Assert- 1982
WHEN children under detention at the San Bernardino County Probation Department in California become violent, they are put in an 8-foot by 4-foot cell with one distinctive feature - it is bubble gum pink. The children tend to relax, stop yelling and banging and often fall asleep within 10 minutes, said Paul E. Boccumini, director of clinical services for the department.
This approach to calming manic and psychotic juveniles contrasts sharply with the use of brute force favored as little as three years ago. ''We used to have to literally sit on them,'' said Mr. Boccumini, a clinical psychologist. ''Now we put them in the pink room. It works.''
So if an entire nation is being shepherded by a color industry affecting all other business, including education, what does that say?
I'm about to reveal what a rebel I am. I don't own a single pair of gray sweat pants. Do you know how prolific gray sweat pants are? Everywhere I go I see rivers of gray. It doesn't matter how fashionable or expensive the sweats are, they are the drabbest color in the world. What does it say that they got so many consumers to don such a drab color?
Now I'm going to tell you a secret. Orange is considered a natural healing color, some specific colors of orange are better. When the medias went viral with "orange man bad", that was an attack on healing. That pulled a color into American politics like never before, aside from red and blue. Orange fell out of favor and all but disappeared. What do you think that did for mass psychological impact? Orange used to be a beloved color, an autumn color, now it's a 'bad' color.
I ran into a riddle one day.
If you click over, you can tell by a lot of the comments that most people didn't know what to do with that. But one clever person converted it.
And then I ran that through a hex converter.
And found it on a hex chart.
I can't honestly say that was the answer to that riddle, but it worked. You'd be surprised how often you can do things like that and get real colors for things.
Color mapping is a big deal nowadays. I used to try to describe the color mapping I could see in my head since I was a kid, now they really do it. And now it's quantum color mapping.
Quantum color image encryption based on multiple discrete chaotic systems
The Color-Flavor Transformation and a New Approach to Quantum Chaotic Maps
I think color mapping comes naturally to me because I'm an autist synesthete. Years ago I figure out I belonged or came from a color region. Click this snip for my take on living with synesthesia. Yes, I saw all that in my head while I was a child, decades before color mapping showed up on my radar. I do the same thing with music. Imagine all that being stuck inside me without being able to share it.
I once wrote
I've spent the last 24 hours torn over whether to let go of trying to get permission from Peter Lopez to hire his awesome Rosette Nebula colorization as a book cover and just go with an awesome stock image whose licensing and processing fee is already included in my contract.
For all I know it's too late now.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/floppypaws/5647855669/sizes/l/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/floppypaws/ Peter Lopez
My weird head saved me through my childhood. I've never really shared the depths despite the reams I've written, but I will share that blue is my soul color, my healing color, and my friend. Somehow.
I obsessed over wind rose compasses and put together something that's been nagging in me for a very long time. My Jason Bourne in Nixa comments go way back (2013).
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