Saturday, March 21, 2015

10 Pantone Colors for Spring Women's

here’s no question the cools rule.”

That’s how Pantone Color Institute

executive director Leatrice Eiseman

sized up the top 10 spring color picks

for women’s and men’s. The leaders’

names — Aquamarine, Scuba Blue, Lucite

Green and Classic Blue for women, and

Dusk Blue, Glacier Gray, Treetop and

Classic Blue for men — hail to a

blue-skies mentality. Whether those

palettes are wishful thinking on the

designers’ part really rests in

consumers’ texting, tweeting,

Instagramming hands.

“Being constantly barraged by text

messages, cell phones, e-mail and all

of this technology 24/7, cooler colors

speak to creating a kind of a quiet

zone. They are a place to get away

from it all, an escape button that,

literally, we can push. It’s also kind

of a freeing, open air. It’s just a

natural aftermath for a crazy world,”

Eiseman said. “To have the four top

colors in the cool range spoke to

something everyone is looking for -—

that real cool, relaxing stop-the-

world-I-want-to-get-off kind of

thing.”

The blurred lines between women’s and

men’s preferences for colors was

evident with Classic Blue and Glacier

Gray, which ranked in the top 10 for

both lists, and Toasted Almond, which

wound up in the fifth slot for both

women and men. Like most of the

others, those colors are easy on the

eyes, which may appeal to overworked,

overextended Americans. “Sleep

deprivation is a big deal. There is

nothing in either palette that is so

shockingly bright that it’s

overwhelming.” Eiseman said. “When we

are sleep-deprived, we don’t

necessarily want to be whacked back

into ‘take a look at this’ — you want

to kind of enter it gently.”

Here, a look at Pantone’s top 10

colors for women and men for spring



FOOOTWEAR colour tending to be trend in 2015-16



With global fashion trends less

constrained by rigid color rules and

consumers delighting in color

expression, our desire for winter

color is flourishing. Reflecting our

optimistic feelings about the future,

color statements for autumn/winter

15/16 are confident; gradually moving

from wispy, negligible shades to more

intense tones and stronger color

bursts, highlighting some more classic

tones along the way. Even black – that

safe winter standby is tinted with

color. So whether you are looking for

ethereal neutrals, phosphorescent

brights, celadon shaded greens or

ceremonial reds full of richness and

warmth,

Friday, March 20, 2015

F... world



“in this land some of us fuck more than
we die but most of us die
better than we fuck”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

Thursday, March 19, 2015

man a world





If a man is called to be a

streetsweeper, he should sweep streets

even as Michelangelo painted, or

Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare

wrote poetry. He should sweep streets

so well that all the hosts of heaven

and earth will pause to say, here

lived a great streetsweeper who did

his job well.

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 If a man hasn't discovered something

he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

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Life's most persistent and urgent

question is, 'What are you doing for

others?'

(Martin Luther King, Jr.)