In order to be stylish most of us prefer to play safe and stick to the basics. But if you are one of those who love to experiment with colours, then hold on girl because this year is for the fashionista in you. The weather has slowly starting to look better as bold and daring colours dominate the runways this season. So go on mix your yellows, blues and greens and step out in style as the Colour Blocking trend, the hottest trend this season, is back in a big way.
But first things first, what exactly is colour blocking? Well, it is a technique of combining two or more blocks of colours in an ensemble. This could be for a T-shirt, jeans/trousers, tunic, a dress and even shoes and handbag. It simply means – creating an outfit by putting blocks of solid colours next to each other. It can include bright colours, monotones, muted colours, and complimentary as well as contrasting colours. Clothes, handbags, accessories, shoes et al can all feature colour block designs or can make up different blocks of colour to be put together for a Colour Block outfit.
To recreate this style, you should first become well acquainted with the more successful portrayals of Colour Blocking. This trend requires a basic knowledge of the colour wheel and a quite a lot of guts too. You must always keep in mind that while Colour blocking an outfit, use colours that support and complement each other. You can start by blocking eye friendly combinations like yellows and greens, blues and red, pink and purple. After you have mastered these combinations, then only move a step forward and block stark contrasts like purple, orange and green, etc. You can also consider tint and shade when Colour Blocking. Shades are colours mixed with black while tints are mixed with white. As the amount of white and black that you add in your outfit varies, it creates different results.
This trend was seen in the collections of all the big designer brands and it is really big with celebrities as well with the likes of Rihanna and Cheryl Cole spotted Colour Blocking their outfits. If you still aren’t convinced that this is the hottest trend this summer, then we can give you another reason which would definitely make you want to slip in multi-coloured hues. So here it is girls – you can easily use this trend to hide all the flaws of your body. We believe all you girls are all ears now! Well, as you all must be knowing that dark colours have a slimming effect, so you can Colour Block your love handles or those arms full of baby fat with dark shades and keep the rest of your outfit light coloured. Believe us, it really works wonders.
A word of caution: do not combine more than three to four colours. It is not that it does not look nice, but this look will turn out to be very ‘ramp’ish. Moreover, the more colours you use they will keep cutting your body here and there making it not a very pretty picture.
If you are willing to shell out a little moolah to get the runway like results then refer to luxury brands like Gucci, Christian Dior, Fendi, Tim walker, Diane Von Furstenberg, Louis Vuitton, Jean Paul Gaultier, Manolo Blahniks, Marc Jacobs, etc. And if think that’s way too steep for your pockets then many high-street brands like Zara, Debenhams, etc will come to your rescue with chic options for this trend. You can buy items that come already colour blocked, or you can do it yourself by pairing brightly coloured separates together as I’ve done in today’s look. So girls, don’t be shy to experiment. It is a really fun trend to sport this summer that gives us an opportunity to pair colours which we won’t even think of combining otherwise. So, go on and have fun blocking colours.
