It’s a secret
If I told you, I’d have to kill you. Told you the Fall 2007 colors that is. I finally made my decision and am very happy with it. The next step will be to sell the line like crazy since it’s so cool–tons of new styles and shapes with fun details that are new and integrated with past designs.
My next color to review is…
Gray: Neutral, balanced and conservative; which is great for replacing a black bag because it adds a little extra mystery to the outfit. Gray evokes strong emotions and can be a moody color (go ahead and be crabby once in a while and blame it on gray).
Visit www.dutchy.net for current colors: black, wine, mocca and nutmeg.
Color time
Today is the day I make the final decision on the colors for Fall. Did I mention how much stress this causes me? Color is very important because buyers are drawn to certain colors and in the fashion business drawn to the ‘in’ color. The ‘in’ color, however, is only speculated on prior to the season with forecasting, but really until you see a bag you have to have in a certain color and all the other women around you feel the same way, the ‘in’ color isn’t real.
So for the next few days I’m going to pay tribute to some of the upcoming forcasted ‘in’ colors. I will tell you about more than I’ll chose for Fall, so you’ll have to eagerly await the lines’ debut in August. Maybe that will help with the ‘in’ concept.
Yellow: Known to signify death in Egypt, courage in Japan, merchants and peace in India, and to represent not only happiness and sunshine, but also deceit and cowardice. Yellow is conflicted; and the colors one choses to compliment yellow will change the communication of the color yellow.
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Love these flattering sites
dutchy got another write up yesterday from a fun site called gretchen’s closet. Check out the review of the cute coin purse…
http://www.grechenscloset.com/index.php?category=2
Sites like these are great places to find tons of cool indie designers who have the greatest most unique stuff that not everyone and her mother has. Besides the fact they give such designers a place to be found and with the web as vast as it is, it won’t take long–so get it while the gettins’ good.
Color
People often ask me how I chose my colors for dutchy bags and I tell them honestly that there’s no true method to my madness. In fact it is one of the choices in the design of dutchy that is at the top of the importance list, yet it seems to daunt me each and every season.
Of course I am always drawn to the same color palette–the subdued colors seen in nature; I would make bags of olives, browns and creams every season if I could. I think each of us has an eye for a particular palette-some for more subdued natural colors and others for colors that ‘wake-up’ the eyes, like the fuschias and the chartreusses. Even though I am pulled to the softer colors, I know that I can’t always create bags in that palette; people like to see color and at this point the trend is to have a splash of color with more subdued clothes. While there are forecasters that tell all designers of the trends in color, that information is hard to come by when you’re a small designer and really have an intuitive cord running through who you are and how you create.
So they say Victorian grays, brasses and ambers, and deep blues with true red; we’ll see if the trend reports win over my intuition for Fall 2007, or if I can’t incorporate both.
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