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Pantone on Fashion: A Century of Color in Design
Julien Tomasello, Leatrice Eiseman, E. P. Cutler
By tracing the past ebb and flow of color, its future can be anticipated. Correlations can be drawn, as history repeats itself, mimicking Ouroboros, the mythical serpent that eats its own tail. Once this text has been consumed and considered, it is our hope that fashion, its designers, and most of all its colors take on a new significance, causing your eye to linger a little longer throughout the day on the sartorial choices of the people around you, as history unfolds from moment to moment.
Now that I can talk to you from age forty, I can tell you—don't worry, it's all good. Life is the same, only better. Never perfect, never settled, never figured out, but ever beautifully flowing.
If we're free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running away from it.
So don't think of it as starting over. Think of it as beginning again. Go back to chapter one—literally!—and become an amateur. Look for something new to learn, and when you find it, dedicate yourself to learning it out in the open. Document your progress and share as you go so that others can learn along with you. Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you.
Everything got better for me when I made peace with the fact that it might not ever get easier. The world is crazy. Creative work is hard. Life is short and art is long.
