The Fall 2023 shows in New York and London have so far presented collections characterised by a prevalently autumnal palette with some splashes of colours. But, if you like vibrant shades, you don't need to follow trends. In fact, forget trends and look for bold and bright inspirations somewhere else.
Quite often even a box of coloured pencils can be a great inspiration: Sotheby's recently included in one of its auctions two boxes of Henri Roché pastels that belonged to the artist Sam Szafran (pastels became his favourite medium - at times combined with charcoal and watercolour - in the '60s after Szafran received a box of them as a gift). Neatly arranged according to their shades in several rows in the two boxes, the pastels prove aesthetically pleasing, providing intriguing inspirations for both garments and accessories.
If you fancy more complex colours with a scientific twist about them, check out the super bright illustrations depicting a kilonova.
Kilonovae are cosmic spherical blasts (originally thought to be flat; probably neutrinos play an important role in the shape of the explosion) triggered by the collision of neutron stars. The giant explosions are responsible for creating black holes (the ultimate result of a kilonova is a so-called "hypermassive" merged neutron star that collapses to birth a black hole), but also the heaviest elements of the periodic table, such as gold, platinum and uranium. The new study about the spherical shape of the kilonova was made by astrophysicists from the University of Copenhagen.
A kilonova was detected for the first time in 2017 in a galaxy 140 million light years away from Earth and astrophysicists continue to explore these events that, for the time being, remain largely unknown.
The discovery about the shape of the kilonova was published online on February 15th in the journal Nature and its press release was accompanied by the illustration of a spherical explosion by astrophysicist Albert Sneppen of the Cosmic Dawn Center in Copenhagen, lead author of the research published in Nature. Sneppen stated that a kilonova is an aesthetically beautiful explosion emitting colours that "quite literally look like a sun".
Blancmange an Instagram account of a digital patisserie posting AI generated images of fantasy cakes with a fashion twist about them, has already posted a cake inspired by the bright and powerful shades of the kilonova. So what will inspire your colour palette for the next season - pastels or kilonovae?
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