Fashion and colour trends

Most countries have associations or groups that brainstorm colour trends for the home market and export. In the United States there is the Color Association and the Color Marketing Group; in Europe the Deutsche Mode Institut, the Dutch Fashion Center, the Institute da Moda Espagnol. In the UK there are two colour associations; one is the British Textile Group, made up of the leading fashion colourists from fibre companies, fashion services, retailers, and textile firms. They prepare the British colour palette which is submitted to Intercolor. For colourists working on home furnishings there is the Colour Group which meets periodically to set the year’s colour card.

 

Additional sources of colour input are fibre companies that employ colour and fashion specialists.