data of KENZO 2006 F/W collection

2006 F/W collection

Theme: operatic inspiration/inspiration was Giacomo Puccini opera entitled Puccini¿s Turandota story about a Chinese princess who refused to marry.

designer: Antonio Marras (b. 1961)

data: (in excel file)

findings:
-the most colors used are black and white.
-black and white are almost applied on every garments and black hue is also in large proportion(>60%~100%) frequently
- use white color in small proportion(<30%)> 45%) of 1/3 collection
-The designer also use yellow, orange, red, violet, grey and brown but in very small proportion.

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Analysis:
--green, blue, red, black and white colors are the main color of this collection.

main colors

-The designer applied different color scheme in this collection such as achromatic, mono-chromatic, double split complementary, single split complementary and analogous.

- Achromatic tend to be used most frequent in the collection .

- Complementary and analogous often used in the collection

- Sometimes the designer use the pink hue in a small propotion for highlighting.

- Because of the season, the garment use medium to low value color frequently. (>80%)
- Those garments in Chinese-style are used blue, white, red, black and yellow. In the ancient China, those colors can be only used by emperor and government officials. And the ancient garments are mostly in pure and bright color which emphasizes the symbol of noble.

Cixi



feeling:
elegance and noble

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Some examples of the color scheme applied in this collection

mono-chromatic




single split complementary

double split complementary

analogic






achromatic