But conversation around gender is rather more complex than it was in the days when pram blankets came in blue or pink and that was that. Being in neither camp has left green, well, sort of nowhere. One reason that green has not been a fashion mainstay is that, like yellow, it is neither masculine nor feminine. Because if you are power dressing for a party, then you are going to be wearing a slithery silk or satin dress, and ever since Keira Knightley wore that green dress on screen in Atonement, 15 years ago, it has been hard to argue that emerald is not the best of all possible colours for bringing maximum drama to a slippery cocktail dress.
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In Paris, a sleek, mini crossbody phone bag in Kelly green is the accessory to update your Breton top and jeans.Īnd there will be more to come. A blazer or a cotton shirt in Wimbledon grass-court green as a pop of saturated colour against white jeans and chunky flat boots is very Copenhagen Fashion Week (currently the most fashionable of fashion weeks.
Not only acid neon, but olive and mint and emerald. This year, all kinds of green have had the green light. The colour used to mark your card as left of centre but we now take green stuff seriously This kind of thing operates like a front-row version of the old school tie, but the point is that the design changes every six months. Nobody wears Granny Smith green by accident, so a sweater in that shade tied around the shoulders, or even a neon-green manicure, worked well as a way of semaphoring your membership of the on-trend club. A juicy, crayon-bright shade of apple, Bottega green was wildly popular, initially as a surefire way that as many people as possible noticed your snazzy new Bottega Veneta handbag and, soon after, as a fashion quick fix. Green made fashion headlines last year when Bottega green was pronounced the new black. That wearing green once marked your card as a little left of centre but no longer does is a basic signifier of the blindingly obvious – that we now take green stuff seriously.
Green is nature, the planet, the environment.
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