Leveraging the Hard Work of the Fashionistas

Choosing color schemes for designs are hard.

Recently, while reading Jeremiah Owyang’s great post on color resources, I discovered Natalie Jost’s nifty idea of using fashion designs to choose color schemes:

The color scheme came pretty easily because in fashion colors are usually already thought through and arranged in good harmony already. I find fashion a good place to start looking at color schemes in general for that reason. Why go through all the strain to come up with colors when some fashion designer has already done that for you?

Now, everything I know about fashion I’ve learned from watching episodes of Project Runway, but I know that fashion photographers and designers spend a lot of time thinking about colors of everything: the outfit, the makeup, the set. I agree with Natalie: why not use what they’ve already done?