[Week II] Value, Third Entry - Value in Fashion

Japanese Girl in Kimono

Whether traditional or modern, we can see the uses of colour vary drastically within fashion. If we begin to imagine a dress with bright colours we imagine the girl wearing it to be happy. Similarly, if we consider a dress that uses dress colours, we may envision the girl to be bad or somewhat twisted in nature. In fashion, we sometimes choose the brightness of our colours to match out moods alongside the hue.

Sometimes value is simply irrelevant when it comes to fashion, but the above example is what happens when we don't consider it to reflect completely on our moods. Gothic in this video doesn't refer to wearing dark colours, but in terms of design. In which case, when is the brightness of our fashion important?

Going back to what we learnt before, when a colour has a very low value, it becomes almost black. In which case, if we consider black in fashion, it's obvious how we use it to reflect our moods. But similarly, a colour with very much value becomes almost white. To make contrast we use light and dark colours together. It looks sharp. Light colour makes the impression very soft and feminine, and dark colour makes it smart, masculine, chic, and sometimes avant-garde.