After selecting the most popular shades featured in Spring 2017 collections from New York Fashion Week runways, the color aficionados at the Pantone Color Institute unveil a palette for the season that is unapologetically earthy and natural. That’s right—Kale is one of the Top 10 shades.
A shade named Greenery was dubbed the Pantone Color of the Year, and it’s no surprise that consumers continue to seek out sustainable brands and eco-friendly products—with this environmental emphasis echoed on the runway.
“[D]esigners applied color in playful, yet thoughtful and precise combinations to fully capture the promises, hope, and transformation that we yearn for each spring,” says Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute.
Looking to include the fresh-from-the-runway top tints in your optical mix?
Here’s a rundown of the Top 10 colors in vogue for spring style.
Eyewear designers Eric Domege and Christian Roth (also an edCFDA member) share Illustrator sketches of two new Christian Roth styles just released at MIDO, GOA (top) and JAE, in the Pantone Top 10 colors they are inspired by this season
Spring 2017 Top Hues For Fashion
NIAGARA:
The Pantone Color Institute asserts that this blue-jean-baby hue is the most prevalent color in the Spring 2017 palette.
LAPIS BLUE:
The semi-precious stone lapis lazuli is coveted for its reputed ability to fuel wisdom and higher thinking, and Pantone gets philosophical with this intensified blue shade.
GREENERY:
Pantone’s Color of the Year not only makes waves in fashion (including designs from Trina Turk and Zac Posen), but also within interior design, urban planning, and more.
PINK YARROW:
One of the boldest shades of the Spring 2017 bunch, this lipstick-like and floral-inspired pink is tropical and invigorating.
HAZELNUT:
Aiding the transition from winter to spring, Hazelnut is a warm and earthy neutral that can stand on its own or complement brighter shades.
FLAME:
Fun-loving spirits will flock en masse toward this red-based orange color that makes a statement.
PALE DOGWOOD:
This dainty pink made a peaceful appearance on spring’s fashion runways, including Lacoste’s.
ISLAND PARADISE:
Blue and green tones come together for Island Paradise, a shade that aptly serves as this season’s dreamy escape.
KALE:
Of-the-moment leafy greens also find their home on spring’s color palette, coexisting with the season’s vibrant shades.
PRIMROSE YELLOW:
As the spring brings us sunshine and warmth, so does Primrose Yellow—a shade that Pantone describes as marked by enthusiasm and vitality.
Dreaming in Color
EB sits down with Barbara McReynolds and Gai Gherardi, founders and designers of l.a.Eyeworks in Los Angeles—who are celebrated for their fresh and innovative use of color in eyewear—to share some additional thoughts about this season’s palette.
“When we began designing eyewear in the early ‘80s, our proposals were motivated, in part, by our own hunger for vibrant, meaningful color,” say McReynolds and Gherardi, also an edCFDA member. “There are still frontiers of color we’re anxious to explore.Our encouragement is to think less about color as seasonal, and more about the symbolism of colors, their ability to create structure and volume in a frame design, and their inherent strength to amplify personality.”
Here, this truly dynamic design duo offers a handful of color musings on hues that will hit the mark.
PINK unravels definitions and expectations. Reinvention and innovation are pink.
PANTONE® 210 C
COPPER is oblivious to gender and projects an air of timelessness and diplomacy. Metallics are the language of craft and construction.
PANTONE® 876 C
PURPLE lives between definitions in a marvelous air of ambiguity. Purple belongs to explorers.
PANTONE® 512 C
YELLOW captures and emanates energy. If you spend your life thinking that nothing goes with yellow, you’ve missed the point.
PANTONE® Yellow C
RED is always a powerful, memorable marker. It is the voice that speaks up from the middle of the crowd.
PANTONE® 185 C
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