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Intercolor Meeting Oporto (Portugal) June 2008
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Intercolor Meeting Budapest (Hungary) December 2007
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Intercolor Meeting Zürich (Switzerland) June 2007
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Intercolor Meeting Istanbul (Turkey) November 27th/28th 2006
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Intercolor Meeting Koli (Finland) June 5th/6th 2006
Season: Spring/Summer 2008
The Intercolor meeting for spring/summer 2008 took place in the beginning of June in the Koli National Park/Finland, which has been and still is a powerful inspirational site for well-known Finnish artists. Just to remind us that nature is the ultimate creator of colour, we were greeted upon arrival by a beautiful rainbow spanning across the stunning view of the unspoiled nature of Lake Pielinen in north/east Finland. The venue seemed to be well chosen all the more so that at least half of the directional concepts for summer 2008 that were presented by the members evolved around nature.
Excerpts:
The Italian delegation was asking if it was enough to travel
around
the world trying to understand the specific geographical colour
combination of each place or if it was not easier to reflect and
interpret the relationship between nature and art in general? A very
specific kind of art was offered by the Turkish delegates, introducing
the group to their own Turkish heritage in performing art from the
20ies and the colours reflecting this time. Major players in nature
wind and sun were the inspiration offered by the Japanese and French
delegates. While the Japanese grouped their colours in 5 themes from
Mistral to Monsoon, the French had their colours evolve around the sun,
from acid to hazy.
After discussing similarities and differences in all concepts, Intercolor put the consensus in colour. The seasonal colour card was agreed upon and key points for a concept were added.
In addition to forming this seasonal colour card the group
held a
workshop on more general questions of the future of colour and colour
forecasting focusing on visions for 2015/2020.
For the British Textile Colour Group “the dictatorship of retail distribution pushes the seasonal rhythms too fast” for the consumer to understand or to keep up with. In the future it will be necessary to evaluate colours according to consumers attitudes, their daily lives, their environment. The Turkish Clothing Manufacturers Association was more radical in their statement: “We need to kill fashion in order to excavate it later and be able to acquire colour from the past with more neutral palettes.”
This return to calm was also foreseen by Swiss Textiles who suggested reducing the colour palettes to the max and finding the essence of each season. They agreed with the Comité Francais de la Couleur that the colours of the future would be romantic with a technical edge, liquid and magical, changeable simply by the touch of a finger, dematerializing colour and projecting phantom colours, colour halos across the light and virtual, changeable colours. This vision seems to be almost realized by account of the Portuguese members of Citeve who believe very much in new technology, namely nano-technology to reinvent colour and the use of it. For all “colour is as necessary for life as air and water”.
The Moda Italiana Colore believes strongly in the interdependency between colour and light, now and even more in the future and added that “it needs professionals who set new colour rhythms closer to mans nature and their geographic also understand that there is a geographic and cultural foundation” to achieve a personalisation rather than an identity.
The China Fashion Colour Association envisions a more emotional and historically based future to colours, putting them always in relation to the elements. For the closer future they propose a domination of Red seen as the colour of chance, honour and passion for the people of China. Also on a spiritual note is the prediction for colour forecasting by the Japan Fashion Color Association with making colour applicable on every desired surface by projection. IC Fin would like the future of colour forecasting to be more provocation than consulting and thus *creative chaos and freedom”.