If you aren’t familiar with the geniuses at Pantone, you had better pay them a visit! Pantone is the sole leader in color trend reporting through out the entire world. Simply stated, everything from the color of your credit card, to interior decorations, to the shade of sandblast in your jeans is determined by Pantone. Although the color theorists change from season to season, they always give the lowdown on what’s going to look good for the upcoming season. With spring comes the promise of new beginnings and I know for sure that I am going to begin my spring wardrobe shopping tonight!

   Although we always rag on The Gap and their obsession with neutrals, believe it or not, neutrals are hotta hotta for the spring… HOWEVER they must be delicately paired with the colors of a fresh spring bouquet; corals, purples and yellows are essential to the spring wardrobe not only for the ladies, but for guys as well! If you thought it took a real man to wear pink (real man was actually soon replaced with emo boy, but you know what I mean) just wait until you see what kind of macho body builder type men are rocking coral Speedos on Spring Break this year!

   Although it sounds like an easy job, it’s not!  “Most often, colors are not completely reinvented each season”, says Leatrice Eiseman, executive director at the Pantone Color Institute. In fact, from my artistic training in color theory, I often find that colors are more or less translated in context and transformed from season to season. For instance, take a look at Opal Gray…looks a lot like a cool Frost Gray, which we all know was a mega hit for the winter this year, right? Gray usually doesn’t suggest springtime to most people, but when paired with a hue like Green Sheen and you’ve got an intense spring explosion of fresh leaves, or Hollyhock matched with Opal Gray creates one of the most unmistakable 80’s revival trends, which is “coincidentally” one of the year’s biggest phenomenons! Coincidence…or Pantone??

   The best part of the Pantone Color Trend Forecast is the crazy and innovative yet sophisticated names they come up with for the colors they make, check out Tarragon, a modern elegant spring mixed green that resembles the inside of a fresh cut tulip stem. Other colors include Strawberry Ice which I predict will be the IT color for lip gloss this season, Golden Apricot which just conveys the scent of a fragrant and fruity candle tickling the inside of my nose after I’ve completed my compulsive spring cleaning, and Café Crème which reminds me of a large dollop of steamed milk atop a double espresso caramel latte after a morning walk through the park with my dog.

You can clearly see all these colors in our new spring clothing lines that arrive daily. One shirt sticks out to me in particular, the Life and Death Skull Rose Tee. A perfect example of Pantone at its best, in my opinion! Look how the typically unmanly colors of Hollyhock and Silver Peony form skulls and flowers that peek through the always trendy color of black! For the ladies, a great example of Pantone perfection is the Grail Dead Tree Top, again infused with Hollyhock and accented with some of that delicious Strawberry Ice, that eventually breaks down into variations on Silver Peony, I love it!

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WHAT A DAY! The winter temperatures might be heavy at hand, but there was enough rock and roll in the house to keep us all burning up!
Today, our good friends Dilana and Magni from the hit televsion reality series, Rockstar: SUPERNOVA, came in to do some hardcore shopping at our retail boutiques, Fusion and Emoda, both on South Street in Philadelphia. Dilana chose a hot new Monarchy hoodie and Magni got one of our favorite Monarchy thermals! They also had enough time to take some pics with Marina, who you might recognize as one of our models. Marina’s wearing one of my personal favorite sweaters from Harajuku Lovers!
I have to admit, I think Dilana should have won, she’s extremely beautiful, talented and a positive role model for young women…and as for Magni, he should just call me
What do you guys think, who was your favorite rocker on Rockstar: SUPERNOVA?

This week some of us had the pleasure of attending the Project Show in New York City.  For those who are not familiar with the show, it is run twice a year in New York and twice a year in Los Vegas.  The floor of the event encompasses the top labels in today’s urban fashion, which made quite an impression on many of us attending.

Now more than ever, and on a grand and global scale, sportswear collections are becoming more and more luxurious in nature. Shoppers crave refined, sophisticated and modern takes on contemporary silhouettes, and fabrications that are at once lush, edgy and comfortable. Project paves the way for this reinterpretation of and the demand for the casual wardrobe and nurtured designers both big and small all the while.

The lineup for 2007 only confirms this fashion progression and the importance of designer denim and premium contemporary sportswear in the market, minds and closets of shoppers worldwide today.

The styles at the Project set the direction of fashion for the next three to ten months, and it is with much excitement that we at EuropeModa are already offering you some of these top labels and their newest designs.  To find out more about the latest trends and the hottest styles drop us a line and let one of our specialists point you in the direction that is right for you.