
Explore the history of color in fashion, from ancient times to today, as each hue's existence and influence shapes style, with visual examples and forecasting insights.
Explore the history of black in fashion within colour psychology, from grief signifier and nobility's color reserved to Chanel’s little black dress in 1926, and rise of punk and goth.
Explore red's fashion history from ancient red ochre pigments to its religious and secular meanings, its decline after the Protestant Reformation, and its modern power with Balenciaga and Valentino.
Trace green's fashion history from ancient malachite and verdigris to Scheele's green and Imperial Green, to modern dyes now arsenic-free, shaping both street and formal wear.
Explore the history of blue in fashion, from ancient pigments and lapis lazuli to royal and religious associations. Trace how marketing and shade diversity shaped today's blue.
Trace the history of white in fashion from ancient Egyptian robes to modern weddings, signaling purity, royalty, and the suffragette movement.
Explore the royal history of purple from Neolithic art to Tyrian dye, its scarcity in Tyre, imperial sumptuary laws, and the 1856 shift to synthetic purple shaping fashion.
Explore the history of orange from ancient realgar pigments signaling danger and value to saffron dyes and Buddhist symbolism, then its 20th-century fashion prominence as a bold, energizing hue.
Explore the history of gray in fashion, from its aristocratic 18th-century adoption and religious associations to 19th-century Paris and London styles, art, and modern worker symbolism.
Fashion history traces yellow pigments from ochre to gold, showing its use in art, skin tones, and royal imagery, and follows its evolving symbolism across cultures and fashion.
Celebrate completing your fashion history and color course and uncover how color meanings have shaped and changed throughout history, helping you uncover the key components of fashion.
Are you interested in learning color history in fashion? If so, this course is for you!
Welcome to another course of the Fashion 101 Series! My name is Veronika and I'm your instructor.
In this course, I will be teaching you the fashion history of color. We will look at the history of every color, each lesson focusing in on a different hue. We will look at its existence in fashion throughout time as well as its influence on fashion today. This course will have many visual examples to help illustrate the colors in fashion throughout history.
If you are interested in fashion design or styling, learning about the fashion history of color is SUPER important. It makes one understand how one color trend at a certain time in a certain place has influenced another color trend in a different time and place. It's only because of this understanding of long-term patterns and repetition in trends, that one is able to do a perfect forecast for the next season. The study of the past also helps us to compare as we start recognizing the patterns from the past. It enhances our observation and thinking skills therefore developing your taste for design.