Sewing stylist Anna Schoenberg shared her personal experience on how to add colors to a wardrobe and how to learn how to combine it with other shades!
It seems that the editors of Burdastyle.ru have learned to read my thoughts - it is completely unclear how they know in advance what topics the article will delight me with! So this time, when I was asked to write material on the subject of my own vision of working with color, I gladly agreed. Moreover, as applied to the fall, this topic can be revealed especially “juicyly”, just like it was revealed in the new collection “Thicken the paint”.
Color is by far the most favorite part of my work. A lot has been written about its use: there are a lot of rules that help to combine colors among themselves, choose shades depending on the appearance, but today I do not set out to fill in any gaps in this knowledge, but I will tell you about my color philosophy in relation to own wardrobe.
How to stop worrying and start wearing vibrant colors
I really love the color! When the editors sent me drafts of the new collection, I with great pleasure admired the images and especially the bright and bold combinations of shades. But here's the paradox: what looks good in a magazine cannot always be worn in life. And the point here is not in colors and color types (although this also has a certain meaning), but much more in another. In my opinion, the deliberate use of color in a wardrobe is 80% dependent on the character as a whole, and on the mood in a particular morning in particular.
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And this means that such vivid combinations of shades, such as malachite green with orange, in real life can only be worn comfortably by such a girl whose character and mood correspond to this impudent and slightly playful combination.
But this does not mean at all that individually the same shades cannot harmoniously fit into your wardrobe. And here, the simplest and most effective technique is to combine them with more neutral and calm colors. And it is not only black and gray, but also beige, white, blue, powdery, dark blue. Or even with the same color, but in a different shade, then we get a very stylish monochrome image.
net-a-porter, matchesfashion The same with green. Combine rich color with more calm and neutral. Or again we resort to the reception of "monochrome": we combine the color and its shade.
matchesfashion, net-a-porter In order to find the exact combination of brighter and calmer colors that you like, it can be very useful (and fascinating) to look at images that have a particular shade. Just as I made a small selection of color combinations for orange and green, you can create your own collage.
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For example, exactly a year ago, I just had a violent love with a brick-orange color. The shade for my wardrobe was completely new at that time, and in order to insure myself against possible mistakes and know exactly how to wear a sewn thing, I made a small mudboard in which all kinds of examples of combining this color were presented.
In the second stage, I divided all the pictures into two groups, and I got a selection of combinations that seem personally attractive for my wardrobe - like the collage you saw above in the article.
The second part of the mudboard got all the combinations that I excluded for myself. They are very beautiful, but too bright for me.
net-a-porter But what I got in the end: in fact, in each image, only one bright color was used in combination with either its own shade or other neutral colors.
Everything seems to be very simple, but you must admit, the color, no matter how trite it may sound, definitely adds bright colors to our lives and uplifts the mood!
By the way, if you liked the style of my image, then I recommend paying attention to the pattern of the vest and costume in the new collection! Do not forget to choose a beautiful saturated color, especially since wearing it in everyday life is actually very easy.
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What is your relationship with color, girls? Love it, use a lot? Are there any difficulties?
More interesting articles, workshops and patterns are waiting for you on the Themes of the Month page!
Anna Schoenberg, sewing stylist
Anna helps girls who sew themselves to create a stylish, modern and comfortable wardrobe with their own hands. In her free time, she likes to sew topical things, improve sewing skills at courses and disappear for hours in fabric stores. Anna is blogging about style and sewing inInstagram
