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Spotted on the catwalk: Pantone's colors of the year 2021

The colors Ultimate Gray and Illuminating have been named by Pantone as the colors of the year 2021. A cheerful 'Illuminating' yellow and a cool gray, 'Ultimate Gray', which when combined create an "ambitious color combination," explains Pantone, "combining deeper feelings of thoughtfulness with the optimistic promise of a sunny day". The two...

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Video: Introducing Pantone's colours of 2021

Global colour authority, Pantone has named ‘Ultimate Gray’ and an ‘Illuminating’ yellow as its colours of the year 2021. It is only the second time that Pantone has named two colours of the year, the last time that happened was in 2016. Watch the video below. To explore the grey and yellow collection items on the FashionUnited Marketplace click...

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Spotted on the catwalk: Pantone's spring/summer 2021 fashion colours

The fashion weeks for spring/summer 2021 were full of colour. Pantone's colour reports from London Fashion Week and New York Fashion Week were also on the theme of 'the joy of colour' and 'flexibility and innovation'. Pantone presented a series of colours that dominate the season with an overlap between New York and London. FashionUnited...

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LFW: Pantone unveils spring/summer 2021 colours

Pantone, the global authority on colour, has unveiled that colours for spring/summer 2021 for London Fashion Week will highlight the “joy of colour” inspired by “reimagination and reinvention”. The bi-annual report, published for the fashion industry, reveals ten colours, which it states are “floral hues reflective of gardens in springtime” that...

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NYFW: Pantone unveils spring-summer 2021 colour palette

Pantone, the global authority on colour, has unveiled that colours for spring/summer 2021 for New York Fashion Week will be inspired by the beauty of nature to support “flexibility and reinvention”. The colours for SS21 it states have been chosen to lighten the mood, while inspiring “ingenuity and inventiveness,” following months of lockdown and...

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Clearpay refreshes brand identity with ‘Bondi Mint’ hue

Retail payments platform Clearpay, known as Afterpay in the US, Australia and New Zealand, has unveiled a new global brand identity, which it states captures the “power and value enabled by the platform at a time of incredible growth for the business and its customers”. The new look Clearpay now has a refreshed mint hue, which has been designed...

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Pantone announces free access to Pantone Connect

Colour specialists Pantone has announced unlimited free access to their Pantone Connect extension tool for Adobe Creative Cloud until July 1 for working from home creatives. The move it says will help designers and creatives who are working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic and will allow them to “adjust to new working conditions and...

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Pantone declares 2020 the year of Classic Blue

American colour authority Pantone has chosen “solid and dependable” Classic Blue as its colour of the year for 2020, as it is a colour that offers a “reassuring presence instilling calm, confidence, and connection”. This isn’t the first time blue has been chosen as colour of the year, in 2000, Cerulean described as the hue of the sky on a...

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Spotted on the catwalks: Pantone's SS20 fashion colours

"Colorful favorites coupled with seasonal shades come together to create a palette of modern color classics," sums up Pantone's Spring/Summer 2020 NYFW colour palette consisting of twelve fashionable colours. “Combining our desire for stability, creativity, and more spontaneous design approaches, the color palette for Spring/Summer 2020 infuses...

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Video: What Pantone Book to Use for Fashion Designers (TCX vs TPX?!)

If you work in fashion, you have to use Pantone colors. But how do you know what colors to use? And what's the difference between TCX & TPX codes? This video will tell you what you need to know. Source: Youtube, Sew Heidi, Pantone

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In pictures: Bershka teams up with Pantone for monochromatic capsule collection

Spanish fast fashion retailer Bershka has partnered up with color expert Pantone to develop a capsule collection of eye-popping monochromatic outfits. Featuring trending silhouettes such as bike shorts, cargo pants and asymmetric crop tops, as well as shoes, socks, bags and eyewear, the capsule allows wearers to create a one-color-all-over...

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Spotted on the Catwalk: Key Colors at New York Fashion Week AW19

The “Pronounced and powerful" color trends for fall/winter 2019/20 highlighted by the Pantone Color Institute were easy to spot on the runways at New York Fashion Week that concluded last week. Collections of designers presenting during the 7-day event reflected “an emergence of confidence” through a bold visceral palette of colors. "This color...