The Colors of Vogue
British artist Arthur Buxton
boiled down the most prominent colors on the covers of Vogue magazine
in the past 130 years from United States, United Kingdom, France, and
Italy.
The pretty colors actually tell us something about the fashion magazine
industry:
Using open-source sampling tools, Buxton located the five most
prominent colors in each issue’s cover, then stacked them on top
of each other to create a color sandwich. The sandwiches were then arranged
into columns, with each vertical column representing a year of magazine
covers, and each horizontal column representing a month. [...]What do the charts tell us? Mostly, they just affirm some long-held
stereotypes about fashion in different parts of the world. Note how
the palettes of Italy and France are overall much darker than those
of the United States and the UK, lending credence to the notion that
“wearing color” in Paris and Milan means dressing in head-to-toe
black. There is also a startling amount of white in U.S. Vogue, and
not just before Labor Day.
Suzanne Labarre of Fast Company has the post: Link
