I have had a look at the Pantonne palette in order to preview the new seasons colour palette for Autumn 2019. The overall theme is deep, warm and muted. These colours have not been around for several seasons. The collections over the last few years have been dominated by the cooler tones of blues, pinks and cool greens with a touch of yellow and orange creeping in recently.
These colours will look wonderful if you have dark warm colouring however they will not be easy to wear if you have a cool skin tone and grey hair. Often as our hair turns a silver grey we look better in lighter brighter tones either warm or cool depending on your skins undertone.
I had a wander around the shops last week at Westfields shopping centre. The aim or my trip was to take a look at the new season’s collections coming into the shops. Most of the ranges were reflecting the deep warm muted colour tones. There was some navy in evidence but even they seemed more muted than usual.
I checked out John Lewis, MarksandSpencer and Cos and took some photos with my iPhone in order to give you an idea of the predominant colours. I will be doing further research over the next few weeks and also putting some collages together in order to give you an idea of how you might want to refresh your wardrobe for the Autumn season.
A selection from the Kin range at Johnlewis&partners. Rust, bronze combined with white and abstract prints.
I noticed that JohnLewis&partners had a very good range of vibrant coloured tops in both warm and cool colours. I have picked out a few I liked below.
I will be back shortly with ideas how to refresh your wardrobe if you have cool colouring. Luckily there seem to be some very pretty purples, teal blues and lilacs around.
What do you think of the new colours?
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Personally I love them, with brown eyes, dark blonde hair and medium complexion I gave had enough of those blue toned colours and welcome browns and toffee colours- so chic!
I love the burnt orange and brown tones. I am though grey now but was always an “Autumn” girl so will be giving these colours a try and hope they look good.
Yippee! Finally. As a redhead, I welcome these colors. I can’t wear black white gray or pink so this is my season!
My heart sank when I saw this trend - my colouring is the cool tone where my hairdresser has commented "never try to warm up"! I think navy might be the only way out for the upper body. So I look forward to seeing your forthocming articles on refreshing my wardrobe. I cannot imagine that retailers in this country are thrilled.
Look forward to seeing the tips and ideas for those with cool colouring. Thank you Josephine for your hard work.
I do not like them at all, and while I do have a warm coloring and brown eyes,these colors seem so drab to me. so I will do as always, wear the colors I love, and that do look good on me.
I have auburn hair brown eyes and freckles so the new warm tones look delicious to me!
I am crossing my fingers for the cool toned colours, Josephine. Many thanks for doing all the hard work!
i'm warm toned so look forward to updating my wardrobe this autumn.
Nope not my colors at all. Should I simply hide in the closet this year?
With you on that one Sandra!
Super colours but not for me as I am cool and soft. Hopefully you can find some lovely pieces in cool tones as I am in need of winter clothes.