Discover iridescent shades, sherbet dreams, and a meteoric rise of cool luster pastels as fashion takes on a tranquil yet modern edge.
The connection between color and emotions is undeniable, and our choices in hues often reflect the moods we wish to convey. Colors help us convey feelings—we say we are feeling blue when melancholy takes hold, seeing red when anger flares, yellow bellied when cowardice takes place, green with envy when jealousy rears its head, or tickled pink when life is rosy. But what happens when color doesn’t take convention? In 2024, the color trend takes on an icy approach. Get inspired on how you can style them.
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Following their 2024 Spring/Summer presentations, designers and labels such as Versace, Bottega Veneta, and Issey Miyake take the traditional pastel and add such a coolness to them that they shine on their own. While not introducing a completely new color spectrum, this trend is a rare occurrence that isn’t typically revisited memorably. It’s like a meteor shower that comes every few decades; miss it and you miss it for good. Call it iridescent, pearlescent, satin sheen, or shimmering splendid—it’s essentially pastel gone glam.
The sherbet color palette received a dose of glamour through the incorporation of iridescent fabrics and dazzling embellishments. Think Easter for the modern religious, fruits from a distant planet, Barbarella if she were a NASA scientist-fashion designer today. The palette is a colorful luster that is not always part of the everyday, and that’s what makes it special and unique: the mere fact it solely exists when it needs to.
Soft to the touch yet perpetually cool to the eye—such textiles offer a delightful paradox, especially in a climate where softness and coolness are synonymous with comfort. When the heat permeates our garments and caresses our skin, the experience can veer into stickiness and discomfort. In the Philippine setting, we all yearn for that refreshing coolness. No matter when the sun touches the evolved pastel cast, its shade tricks and trickles that it’s meant for us to shine forward in the cool embrace of the biting ice. After all, color often influences our psychology.
Tom Ford, Giambattista Valli, and Tory Burch also integrated the airy pastels into cool lusters, some brighter and harder, and then others soft and simple, like pastel, but you can tell it’s not the usual. From dresses and gowns, skirts and midi-skirts, to tops and blouses, the beauty of Spring/Summer collections is that they can work anywhere in a tropical climate such as the Philippines. It’s all in a manner of styling, and with a cool color palette like this, styling is as easy as transforming sherbet into a Slurpee.
The icy metallics and cool luster pastels trend is a movement towards tranquility with a modern edge. Embracing red to assert dominance on the sports field or immersing oneself in the tranquil embrace of pale blue within a room, color emerges as a formidable medium for conveying and eliciting emotions. Yet if not red or blue, think of frozen azure, chilled lavender, flowing rose, and silvered green.
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