Bright Red Leopard
I have just returned from a meeting with colour consultant, Manina Weldon, in Kensington. Red Leopard, her company, advises people on the colours that will best suit 
them in order to draw attention to and augment their finer features; particularly the face. While I was there on business grounds (Red Leopard will be selling a number of BrightByBlack.co.uk scarves to their customers from this month onwards, including a number of exclusive colour-ways) I had a fascinating insight into which colours should be worn on whom.
Now, it should come as no surprise to regular readers of this blog that I like black and wear it often and will by hook or by crook find a way to wear it in the summer (thank you black Bamford silk mac). Manina told me that black was not my colour. It was like taking a bullet.
Luckily today I was wearing colours that are ‘me’ (navy, tan, Babylon Scarf, light denim) and ‘me’ is blond, blue-eyed; generally of the ‘yellow’ ilk. The world is divided into ‘yellows’ and ‘blues’ it seems and the ‘yellows’ should focus mainly on wearing soft spring and summer colours such as blush, peach, terracotta, turquoise, pastels, coppers, tans; in short soft, delicate colours. Meanwhile the ‘blues’, (Manina - brown/black hair, cocoa-brown eyes) are rather enviably licensed to wear winter colours such as black and bright, bold colours including red, magenta, emerald, cobalt.
While what I gleaned from the short time I was there was merely surface-scratching stuff, it was nonetheless intriguing and I plan to run an experiment on myself, wearing ‘yellows’ to find out if my life gets perceptibly better. I fear, however, that this endeavour may go the way of the Monday morning diet and I will revert to blackness.
I wonder, was Coco Chanel a blue or a yellow?
(Red Leopard, 1 Thackeray Street, W8 5ET, redleopard.co.uk, 0207 937 2222)
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