FALL 2009 COLOR TRENDS AND MEANING
With a change of season comes a change in fashion. One of the most apparent changes from summer to fall is color. Color is an important part of fashion; it says a lot about the image you’re portraying and how you feel about yourself. Colors have meanings that go beyond ink. Let’s take a look into the color trends for fall 2009 and what those colors represent.
Pastels will give way to warmer, bolder, richer, earthier shades. Wearing them is like announcing your presence. It commands attention and is perceived as powerful. Warm colors are full of energy, inspire conversation, and wake up a room. The scale of warm colors moves from reds, deep purples, oranges, yellows, browns and mixes like golds, pinks, peaches and tangerines. Touches of color can electrify the palette. Warm cream tones and grays will serve as neutral shades for the fall palette. Of course, off white and black will continue to find their place. Let's take a deeper look into the meanings of the seasons color trends.
Berry Reds. Red is a very emotionally intense color. It enhances human metabolism, increases respiration rate, and raises blood pressure. Dark red is associated with vigor, willpower, rage, anger, leadership, courage, longing, malice, and wrath.
Royal purples. Purple combines the stability of blue and the energy of red. Purple is associated with royalty. It symbolizes power, nobility, luxury, and ambition. It conveys wealth and extravagance. Purple is associated with wisdom, dignity, independence, creativity, mystery, and magic.
Pumpkin Orange. Oranges, which flatter almost any skin tone, will keep the beautiful. It combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow. It is associated with joy, sunshine, and the tropics. Orange represents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation. Red-orange corresponds to desire, sexual passion, pleasure, domination, aggression, and thirst for action.
Deep Yellow. It's associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy. Yellow produces a warming effect, arouses cheerfulness, stimulates mental activity, and generates muscle energy.
Rich olives. Green has great healing power. It is the most restful color for the human eye; it can improve vision. Green suggests stability and endurance. Dark green is associated with ambition, greed, and jealousy. Olive green is the traditional color of peace.
Gold. Evokes the feeling of prestige. The meaning of gold is illumination, wisdom, and wealth. Gold often symbolizes high quality.
Black. contrasts well with bright colors. Black is associated with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery.
2009 Fall Fashion Color Trends
