Deep and Intense Colours Dominate Autumn Winter Colour Trends for 2011

The Autumn Winter collections for the 2011 fashion season is one full of attractive jewel colours, opulent fabrics contrasting knit textures and exciting prints.This season’s colours are deep and intense

Its essential to choose a dress colour to suit your skin tone, this is essential to create a shot of complexion enhancing colour.  For instance, blues and purple lift the eyes, reds add a natural warm blush, whilst gold reflects highlights onto hair.  Iris purple is one of the few colours that look good on every skin tone from palest blonde females to raven haired women.

We saw on the fashion colour mood boards how fiery tomato red and iris purple are two of the hottest colour trends of autumn.  These two colours also merge to form rich cranberry tones that blush with the colours of crushed berries.  Add sea green, old dusty rose, taupe, burnt orange, peridot green, yellow ochre and the result is a rich palette the starting point for a whole host of jewel coloured clothes.  All the clarity of the most beautiful hues of the world’s loveliest coloured gemstones are there – peridot, aquamarine, topaz, sapphire, tanzanite, amethyst, tourmaline, kunzite, ruby pink, garnet red, yellow citrine and smoky quartz.

Winter white and black add the perfect contrast.  Black and inky navy are used as a base for Folk Boho prints, which often feature red and golden tones.  Red is heavily trending for Autumn Winter 2011

You are reading an an articl with excerpts from a colour in fashion article by Pauline Weston Thomas at www.fashion-era. com