So You think colour has nothing to do with You? We beg to differ!
Cerulean blue was named colour of the new millennium in 1999 ~ “the colour of the sky on a serene, crystal-clear day”.
Cerulean blue is a global favourite with mass appeal, a soothing, calming colour that evokes feelings of peace and confidence that can be accented with red or orange to give it greater engagement. Most of all though, Cerulean blue will forever be the subject of Meryl Streep’s monologue to Anne Hathaway in the Devil Wears Prada:
“This stuff’?” she says. “Oh, ok. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don’t know is that that sweater is not just blue, it’s not turquoise, it’s not lapis, it’s actually cerulean.
You’re also blindly unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves St Laurent, wasn’t it, who showed cerulean military jackets? And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic ‘casual corner’ where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin.”
Colour has everything to do with everything!
