Industry follows fashion

Pantone is known for beautiful colors in paints. As the interior design industry typically follows fashion (and vise versa), I have scooped up from pantone's website their colors for fall 2008! I have also tried to find these color trends in interior settings to give you a better idea.

Top 10 Colors for Fall 2008

A summary of the top fall

2008 colors for women are:

The Blue Hues

• Blue Iris - This is Pantone’s color of the year for 2008, according to their report. A rich beautiful blue with purple undertones which has been a firm favorite amongst such designers as Leger, Costello Tagliapetra, Diana Vo n Furstenberg and Oscar De La Renta. Combining the regal richness of purple with cool and calming aspects of blue.
• Royal Lilac - Dramatic Royal Lilac is a combination of bluish purples and cheerful red undertones. undertones.
• Shady Glade -It provides a willing companion to shady glade, a mossy green base color which is a departure from the more traditional greens of th e past.

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  Caribbean Blue -Evokes memories of tropical vacations which adds intensity to its color companions.
• Twilight Blue - Twilight Blue is a twist on a classic navy, a strong, powerful steady color.

The Red Hues

• Aurora Red - Reds and purples are a keynote combination for Fall 2008. Given its dash of energy an d vitality to the palette Aurora red is not exception.
• Withered Rose - Moving on to dusky brownish pinks, Withered Rose blends with almost any shade.
• Burnt Orange - Powerful and robust, Burnt Orange is subtle enough to be worn by most skin tones, but steady enough to be a backdrop and stro ng eno ugh to be at the fore front of an outfit.
• Ochre - Adding a touch of lightness traditional autumnal color is Ochre with a hint of mustard against mellow yellow.

Understated Shitake

• Shitake - "The color of a Japanese mushroom, thi s complex yet modest shade is intriguingly understated," states the Pantone report, "especially when teamed w ith the robust colors of fall" '08.

  

The Color Purple - Prominent in Fall Designer Collections

Inky Blues, Greens and purples made up a prominent fashion base for runway designers showing their fall collections. This is likely to be the most popular color in the high-street given its versatility and femininity.

Commonly mixed with red and found in rich velvets, silks and satins, women are going to be finding themselves in a purple haze for the fall season. Already seeping through into spring and summer women's fashion, purples and lilac base colors look set to provide a rich backdrop for our fall wardrobe in evening gowns, figure hugging dresses, shaggy furs and fringes, tops, skirts and shoes.

And those are the fall color trends for 2008! Enjoy :)

-Mj*