Paris in the Pantone Color of the Year 2019: Living Coral

Pantone released its 2019 Color of the Year: Living CoralPantone releases a color each year. During that year designers from all genres include the hue in their work.Who was on trend before her time?This shot was for an article I was in about slowing down and painting. It was in the August 2014 edition of Psychologies Magazine.Some years I'm all BLECH with the Pantone choice, like in 2016 with Rose Quartz: What was annoying about this choice is that for anyone who has ever lived in Paris and purchased a light pink anything, they soon find that it turns to this dirty pink hue on its own. Could be the water, the detergent, the way washing machines work, but mostly it's just from living in a sooty city. So we already have a closet of that hue, thanks, without even trying.Living Coral is different. It's vibrant and it looks great with other colors, like with the blue in this dish I picked up at a flea market:I'm excited to see how this shade trickles into the mainstream. In the meantime, you can find plenty of shades of Living Coral around Paris since red, orange and pink all fade to coral eventually, also without even trying.Pantone also includes color harmonies with the Color of the Year so you know how to pair it. Repetto has known all along:As has Picasso...And this nameless artist, who also included a Living Coral shawl on our subject:And let's not forget our culinary artists...Or our street artists... And some ladies about town...By the way, January is a month of sales in Paris. Perhaps the boutiques are trying to offload all the old Pantone Colors of the Year to make room for our darling Living Coral.But I don't need to go shopping. I've already got a whole wardrobe of Living Coral. Just as well. I need to stay home and work on my new Paris Letter. Will it include our new Pantone hue? Subscribe over in the shop and find out.Also, two treats for New Year's resolutions. Both my Paris books start with January and go to the end of the year. They make for nice pals as you navigate your way through 2019. Find links to fun stores to buy them here.Hee hee.I've got my fingers crossed for Limpet Shell to be the 2020 Color of the Year.