**Have you, or a loved one been injured by this color choice? Did you attempt to seek treatment, only to find that the hospital had been completely abandoned?**
Y'know, just when I thought "quiet quitting" was some junk-term breathlessly conjured by desperate journalists with nothing left to write about, Pantone's Fall / Winter 2026-2027 Color Trend Report landed, just over a month ago with a muffled thud, and oh my god.
... You’re just another brick in the wall. -Roger Waters
With Fashion Month winding down by the middle of this upcoming week, it seems the appropriate time for another one of my world famous (?) color rants. I just know you're all perched on the very edge of your seats, waiting for my piping hot take on the world of color as it pertains to fashion, fads, consumer manipulation, and a certain Color Cabal's choke-hold on the industry, and how out-of-step with the real world it all feels some(most)times. I'm afraid, however, this post isn't going to be that deep.
I can hear all of your hearts breaking...
I think that depends entirely on who you ask, but for anyone eagerly anticipating my bi-annual color gripefest, the wait is finally over. Let's get into it!
With the close of 2022 came the Pantone "forecast" announcement of the new Color of the Year for 2023. Now ... If you're new around here, you may not be familiar with my Pantone gripe. The good news is, you can read more about it over here. The, uhm, other news is that you will very quickly discover how wordy I am. I'd apologize, but honestly? I clearly needed to get all of that off my chest, like, it can't be healthy to hold that much animosity for the color equivalent of groundhog's day -- A harmless holiday(?) that means nothing, but also kind of something..?
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| Twinkle, twinkle little periwinkle! |
Now that we're firmly in 2022 ... You know, we still may not know what we're doing, or where we're going, but we've kicked the tires, and adjusted the mirrors ... Or at the very least, stopped writing "2021" on our checks (this is a reference for all of us Olds out here still using paper checks) is it time to talk about the color of the year as crowned by Pantone?
