PANTONE
COMPLEX AND EXOTIC HUES SPICE UP WOMEN'S FASHION
Each season, Pantone, Inc., surveys the fashion designers of New York Fashion Week to collect feedback on prominent collection colors, color inspiration, color philosophy and each designer's signature shade. This information is used to create the PANTONE Fashion Color Report, which is available free-of-charge from the Pantone website at www.pantone.com/fall2007. It serves as a reference tool throughout the year for fashion enthusiasts, reporters and retailers. The report features the top 10 colors for women's fashion for Fall '07 along with designer sketches, quotes and head shots.
According to the report, "complex" and "exotic" describe the intriguingly unusual and inviting color palette for women's fashion for Fall '07. The traditional neutral shades expected for autumn have been replaced this season with rich, nuanced hues, offering more opportunity for creativity with interesting and unexpected color combinations.
PANTONE HOME COLOR FORECAST 2007
CLASSIC ELEGANCE WITH MODERN SPICE
"Whether designing interiors or creating products for the home, satisfying consumers' or clients' more demanding perceived needs and desires in both styling and color is a major challenge in today's marketplace," said Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute. "People are looking beyond a simple matching process to colors that they can instantly connect with, that suit their personal comfort level and that excite the imagination. At the same time, there is the practical need to connect to products or settings they already own. As always, it is the introduction of new or renewed themes and colors or unique combinations that will create these essential connections."
THE COLOR ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES
2008 will be a year in which Americans will without hesitation embrace colorful attitudes. As the election year approaches, there is an expectation of change and a new optimism in the air. Dull or predictable neutrals appear to belong to the past, just as a vivid, full-spectrum palette seems to define the future. For the first time in over a decade, The Color Association of the United States' (CAUS) forecasts are not arranged chromatically but in multi-color stories.
THE COLOR MARKETING GROUP
THE MAINSTREAMING OF ENVIRONMENTALISM
What colors will hold center stage in 2007? If you're thinking fluorescent colors, think again. From fabrics to food mixers, furnishings to appliances, pillows to paint, next year's key colors are coming down to earth.
According to Color Marketing Group (CMG), a leading international association of color design professionals, the most powerful color trends for 2007 are driven by concern for the environment. CMG, founded in 1962, is an international not-for-profit association of 1,100 color designers who forecast color directions one to three years in advance for all industries, manufactured products and services.
