USA FavouritesKeep it in the PINK so says Clare Coulson
Pink has always been traditionally associated with 'girlie' wardrobes or the 'Barbie' image yet Pink is making a stand as being a fashionable colour which is being adopted by some of the worlds leading designers. According to Clare Coulson who claims that girls really can wear pink.
There is a common perception that a girl that wears pink can't really be taken seriously and only sugar sweet girlies would attempt to wear pink and carry it off while the sharper female would avoid it.
The candy floss image of loud pink gave Barbie doll a whole wardrobe and image and coined the phrase when blond Barbie look-a-likes were portrayed as less than intelligent and pink became to stand for rather simple girls with perhaps less than acceptable IQ or fashion sense.
Well think again as the French Vogue have taken Pink and adorned its autumn/winter collections issue with bright pink dresses. One of the movies most famous Pink Dresses was Audrey Hepburn's sexy pink cocktail dress as worn by the star in Breakfast at Tiffany's during the swinging 1960's for a staggering £96,970 that’s five times its expected price. Yes that’s right nearly one hundred thousand pounds for a small tight fitting pink dress.
More up to date celebrities including Cameron Diaz, Sandra Bullock, Eva Herzigova and Teri Hatcher have all been seen in public wearing vivid pink coloured clothes over the past month. This may be a revivalist movement but whatever it is Pink and certain shades of pink are certainly the colour.
Stella McCartney also chose pink for mini-dresses one of her few colours in her mainly monochrome winter collection. Being in the Pink has come from being in the shade and is now being embraced as an acceptable colour despite its feminists stereotyped image of the 'dumb blond' indeed its being used by more designers as they hark back to the swinging sixties of London and are creating a pink success which has seen the colour back on the agenda as a truly feminine colour of class providing the right shade is used.
