We have officially hit full saturation summer status. May bloomed into June and here’s what’s been living in my head: the interviews of five wildly different color maximalists all send the same message. Color is their truth. That’s the take away. Read their interviews at domachroma.com.
Color is the most honest language we have. Amber Vittoria proves it. The Forbes 30 Under 30 artist paints vivid full-figured women, aqueous rainbow gradients, and after becoming a mother, she found her colorful work freer and more vulnerable. “I’m less interested in perfection now and more interested in honesty,” she writes. “Color was never decorative to me.” You feel and react to her color choices before you interpret a single shape.
Bruce and Glen Proctor hold a permanent place in my technicolor heart, and their new collection: “I Don’t Look Like What I’ve Been Through” is a declaration of resilience in impeccably tailored technicolor “Legacy Suits.” On their signature bright patterned pailettes: “Bubbles represent present joy, because it’s fleeting. If you don’t appreciate it while it’s there, before you know it, it’s gone.” Their design philosophy is, and has always been, “Offer More Colors!” Same, Bruce and Glen, same.
Jada and David Parrish take this truth somewhere wilder. Their 100 Set Project (100 hand-built sets in a year) creates a candy color forced perspective, and delivers hyper-saturation you can almost taste. Jada’s advice to creators stopped me: “Make work that actually feels true to you. Especially if it’s weird, specific, or doesn’t totally make sense to other people yet.”
And one of my favorite stylists, Kelsey of @kels.style, builds bright, bold, high-low looks while practicing law! She is decisive and skilled in interpreting the full rainbow. Her rule is everything I believe: “Don’t dress for approval.”
An artist, a fashion design team, set builders, and a stylist. They reach for color to communicate the truth about color maximalism. This is your invitation: Tell the truth. Choose the colors that make you truthfully feel something, and live out loud. Color Is Power.
¡Viva La Revolución Del Color!
Pamela Gold
Founder | Editor in Chief
DomaChroma Magazine