Look Hot With 'Yellow' This New Year

Women Fashion

oi-Staff

By Staff

Friday, December 5, 2008, 12:43

Beat the economic gloom this new year with the sunny colour 'yellow'. The "mimosa" shade of yellow is the hottest colour of the year 2009. Pantone, which provides colour standards to design industries, has specifically cited "mimosa" as its top shade of the New Year.

"Mimosa" is a vibrant shade of yellow illustrated by the flowers of some mimosa trees as well as the brunch-favourite cocktail. Pantone hopes that the color will bring back a certain optimism to the people and would be well adopted.

"I think it's just the most wonderful symbolic colour of the future. It's invariably connected to warmth, sunshine and cheer - all the good things we're in dire need of right now," Courier Mail quoted Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Colour Institute, as saying.

It does not stop here, the fashion industry has also embraced the vibrant yellow and will be seen popularly on the ramps. "People know yellow lightens up the atmosphere," said Eiseman.

It helps that it looks good in florals and has a close association with nature, a driving force in the marketplace right now, and it complements current favourites green and purple."I'd say you should get used to seeing yellow in places you're not used to seeing it," said Eiseman. In 2008, "blue iris," a purple-tinged blue, was colour of the year.

Tom Mirabile, vice president of global trends and design at Lifetime Brands, Inc., whose portfolio includes Cuisinart, Farberware and Pfaltzgraff, said that home-goods companies based in Paris and Milan, Italy, have already been heavily influenced by yellow.