>My 8th column on www.fashionscene.nl, for Dutch click here.
A while ago I started my column about color. Now I finish it, it gets an unexpected ending. Call it: girl growing up? Anyway, the impossible became possible…
“Black has -whatever’s the new black- a real place of honor in the fashionscene, I think nobody can deny that. If we have a tendency to go black to basic again we choose for black, but if we want drama and hectics (think: grungelook) black will be the one as well. I often see beautiful black, but black just always is… so black. You understand: give me some color!
As where I often read on blogs: ‘when I can choose from different colors, I always prefer black’, for me counts the opposite. When I think about black, the words ‘boring’, ‘common’, and ‘inconspicuous’ always enter my mind. With black, my usually creative fashionbrain, stays blank. When I see clothing or shoes in a wicked color, I don’t care what it is like. Colors pull me, fascinate me. Where somebody else has a complete black wardrobe, I’d say the deadly sentence: ‘I already have a pair black ones… ‘.
So take a look at my wardrobe and you see a fair of clothing. This wardrobe is selected by color of course. A color where I have too much off, is send away from my wishlist and a new (re)discovered color becomes a new obsession. I kick on creating a clothing- and shoecollection with as much colors as possible. This way, color has become my signature. My colors aren’t adapted to style or theme, but always on color. When colors don’t match perfectly I get the feeling people around me are staring at the ‘cursing’ colors I’m wearing”.
But like I said: the impossible became possible… I started to love black! And no, it’s not a depression or tendency to vigorous changes, but because I love to work on my style untill it’s perfect (indeed: it will never be). By looking around me a lot I came to the conclusion that becáuse I love color so much, I can let them speak better by combining them with black. That’s why I’ve been busy past months to take care off, especially black, basics. I bought black accesoirees for daily use, searched for the perfect black ankle boots, and went loving my black skinny jeans even more. Girls grow up, but I’ll never let my religion down: my bright green ankle boots are still my favorite!
