Yes!! We have talked alot and seen alot about this colour blocking trend last year…But the trend is so refreshing and there is so much that one can do with it that it’s just not going out of fashion!!! I couldn’t stop myself from observing that not only does pastel and Neon work for this season, but colour-blocking pastels with pastels and pastels with Neons and Neons with Neons also is on the block for fashionista’s all over the world..I just had to write a post about it.. Moreover summers seem so much in need of Colour rite now.. there is a riot of colours amongst the celebrity events and step-out’s making the shutterbugs go crazy. To me this trend of fashion for 2012 seems like a teen-age pretty little girl who has painted all sorts and forms of colours one can imagine on a plain canvass.. Lets go through the basic A, B, C of colour Blocking trend of 2012..
Pastel Colour Blocking Trend
Neon with Pastel Colour blocking trend
Gucci showed us lot of Neon with Neon Colourblocking..
Neon with Neutral Colour Blocking..
There are various ways to do colourblocking, In order to understand the colourblocking you must understand the colour wheel first!!
1.Analogous Colours: Going with the Simlar shades, taking up two adjacent colour say Red and Orange-red, or maybe three adjacent colours like red, violet-red and violet. This way you block the similar hue of colours
Yellow and Orange Colour blocking two adjacent colour
Kim K in Yellow and Green analogous colour-blocking..
2. Complementary colors: Choose colours that are opposite to each other, colours directly across from each other (e.g. blue & orange)
Blue and Orange Contrasting Colour-block
Yellow and Violet
Fashion Celebrities Jeniffer Hudson and Kim Kardashian in Orange-Yellow and Violet-blue – Colour Contrast Block!!
3. Right Angle Colours: Select colours that form 90º angle like Green-Blue-Violet, Orange-yellow Yellow-green and Blue-green.
Substituting Red with Pink in the colour wheel makes right angle colours such as red and violet, red(pink) and orange colour-blocking..
Right angle colours Green-blue-violet and Violet-red with Orange-red
4. T colors: Colours that form a “T” shape like yellow, purple and orange-red.
Blue green-Violet-Orange red
Make a point to use pastels with pastels and Neons with Neutrals while you are novice to this trend.,,, Once you are through.. Chuck the wheel and Go Colourfull!!! Who cares If you like it, it looks good….;)
