If you had the choice of being an ice cream this summer, what flavor would you be? Refreshing mint? Soft tea aroma? Salivating lemon taste? Marshmallows in the blue sky?
When an overstressed society gradually loses some control over their lives, the fashion industry intends to bring more comfort and healing to people through fashion trends. In 2024, the fashion world is serving up a palette inspired by the calming and vibrant colors of nature and food. From the refreshing Mint Mambo to the sunny Lemon Drop, and the warm Rooibos Tea Red to the serene Chambray Blue, this season’s colors promise tranquility and joy. These soft, light hues are designed to bring comfort and healing, reflecting a shift towards more soothing and nurturing fashion trends. Explore how these colors can transform your wardrobe, blending effortlessly from city chic to vacation-ready.
Mint mambo: Refreshing vitality
Mint refers to low-saturated natural colors represented by tender green, light blue, or light yellow, which have both the tranquility of blue and the vitality of green. Mambo dance that originated in South America is the inspiration for the color Mint Mambo. It’s a lively, agile dance style with an air of freedom and enthusiasm. In order to demonstrate the liveness and beauty of nature, this popular summer color uses a mint green tone as its principal note. The harmony of pallets is composed of elements such as mountains, moss, mist, forests, wind, and buds. That’s why mint mambo symbolizes new hope and vitality.
Refreshing and low saturation tones of green create a light, stretched, and vibrant romantic atmosphere and have an easing and joyful feeling, it is a color that radiates the vitality and beauty of spring/summer. With its iconic mint tone as the core, the overall look presents a fresh and vibrant visual effect through the matching of individual products. The most breathable, healing, and rejuvenating touch. Not only is this color fashionable, but it’s also used in interior decoration and beauty. Whether it is clothing, bedding, or even hair colors, decorating your life with a touch of mint mambo is like a feast that dances harmoniously with nature, bringing a different kind of tranquility.
Lemon drop: Sunny elegance
Lemon Drop is a luminous yellow hue that exudes a bright and lively vibe. It’s a combination of summer’s fruity aroma and the warmth of the sun. Inspired by the Roman holiday as the undertone theme, the stylistic use of this color can be diverse and practical with a touch of casual attributes while exuding an exuberant charisma. Lemon drops can be elegant, sweet, or a passionate emotion. This color is neither monotonous nor wild, it expresses the energy and expectation of a better life.
It can be observed in the fashion shows that lemon drops often cooperate with fresh colors and neutral colors, like brown, gray, pistachio, pink, white. In order to bring out the texture of the color, the fabric materials are often chosen to be soft cotton, mesh, and glossy satin silk and paired with embellishments of lace trim and sequins, crystals, combined with patterns like blurred flower prints, 3D plaids. Which resonated with a painting of a glistening summer with an elegant and luxurious feel.
Rooibos tea red: Subtle warmth and timeless sophistication
Rooibos Tea Red is a mellow red with deep wood tones which has a gentle and powerful atmosphere. It’s not only a fashionable visual effect, it adds warmth and soul to the living space. This color is like the afterglow in the mysterious forest, exuding a rich natural flavor and unique charm. It is closely associated with spring and summer, complementing the festive season when everything flourishes. In addition to the natural environment, Rooibos Tea Red is a symbol of emotion and culture, allowing people to feel the precipitation of time and a sense of history, while also delivering an independent and confident message.
The color Rooibos Tea Red is a chameleon, which can transform into different styles like retro, minimalist, modern, avant-garde, and more. When it comes to color matching, it could be combined with black, white, gold, and Brown so as to create a classic everyday outfit. On the other hand, it can be paired with other popping colors such as neon orange to achieve an edgy street style.
Accessories are also a good way to bring the colors into the fit. For example, A rooibos tea red color silk scarf can add a touch of elegance and sophistication to the overall look, or carry a bag of this color tone to add highlights to the style. In addition, Rooibos Tea Red is also a color that is very suitable for integration into makeup. Choose a lipstick or nail polish to add a touch of playfulness.
Chambray blue: Peace of mind
Chambray blue is a blue tone with a slight gray tint and a washed effect, it is pure, translucent, and clear. Putting on a chambray blue look can paint an image of a serene nature, and it gives a sense of relaxation as if you are touched by the breeze from the ocean. Zen, collected, and serene are the characteristics of this color but it also radiates an optimistic attitude. It seems like people can let people find peace of mind and renewed energy with this color’s existence. A pop of this blue tone in life can erase the fatigue away.
The organza material and Chambray blue are a perfect match, under the blend of low-saturation light color and flowy texture, it has a fairy temperament. The perfect adjective is lightness. Chambray blue can make you stand out from the crowd, whether you’re wearing it with simple white, retro brown, or fresh pink. In other words, the magic of that color cannot be fully described. At the same time, this color gives people a professional and reliable sense with its collected and quiet emotion, it is very suitable for professional wear or formal occasions. Chambray blue is a versatile and staple color for the summer wardrobe.
*Header: Versace SS24
