Back to Black 🖤
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Back to Black 🖤

This post is called “Back to Black” because I’ve returned to wearing black. Well, to be more accurate, I never left…..(more on that below). It’s also a nod to one of my favourite songs by the beautiful talent that was Amy Winehouse. Black was something of a signature colour for Amy —her hair, her ever-present…

Introducing Midnight Summer
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Introducing Midnight Summer

Soft. Smokey. Deep….. If you are new to colour analysis, here’s the basic idea: different people are flattered by different families of colour, depending on qualities such as temperature (how warm or cool a colour is), depth (how light or dark it is) and chroma (how bright, clear or muted it is). Traditional seasonal colour…

Personal Style as Memory: How Memory and Personal Aesthetic Intersect
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Personal Style as Memory: How Memory and Personal Aesthetic Intersect

Style isn’t necessarily invented. Maybe sometimes it’s simply remembered. When someone dresses well, it often has less to do with rules and more to do with what they remember, honour, or instinctively return to. Even on the runway, we mainly see a fresh take on an old style — a never-ending recycling of a former…

Shadow Tones and Secret Harmonies
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Shadow Tones and Secret Harmonies

There are certain colours that aren’t just flattering — they actually belong to you.  Because they already exist in your face (and body, and hair, and eyes….) These are sometimes referred to as Body Harmony Colours, and  include your natural hair colour and eye colour, the colour of your gums and palms. Within the broad…