8 Apr 2015

Colour analysis: fashion’s search for the perfect shade

Colour me Beautiful 
Colour Me Beautiful’s analysts have been helping people find a style that suits them for 35 years. So what’s the difference between ‘cool’ and ‘deep’? And does ‘khaki’ always = ‘death’?  
If anyone should feel confident about the shades that suit her, it is Henderson, managing director of image consultancy Colour Me Beautiful. The book that launched the business, Colour Me Beautiful by Carole Jackson, was first published 35 years ago this year, pre-dating Trinny and Susannah’s What Not to Wear and Gok Wan’s primetime TV banger-squeezing by two decades.]
Hannah Marriott with Angi Jones 
In the 1980s, Jackson’s book became a phenomenon, selling 13m copies and spawning dozens of follow-ups. Intriguingly, Jackson herself was bought out of the company in the mid-1990s and has since “disappeared” (Henderson, tactfully, tells me she isn’t quite sure what happened) but the business remained. As well as the books (Colour me Younger, Colour me Confident and Image Matters for Men: How to Dress for Success are just a few), the company now runs a cosmetics line and, in Europe, a business, training consultants and shop assistants in the art of styling and colour theory.

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