Pantone View Color Planner to Preview Fall Fashion Colors With Focus on Home

Knowing color forecasting can never start soon enough for many in the design process, Pantone will be previewing fall-winter 2020-21 fashion colors at this week’s Apparel Textile Sourcing Miami show. The Pantone View Colour Planner forecast is rooted in the concept of Nest, meaning the structure, idea or sentiment that we create to serve as our home. All around this increasingly borderless world, consumers are dealing with political divisions, environmental concerns, unpredictable and at times destructive weather and broader interpretations of family, gender and identity. How all of this shakes out into the diverse definitions of home is something that Pantone’s forecasters have examined. Laurie Pressman, vice president of Pantone’s Color Institute, said, “Things are changing so rapidly. We had seen that shift in a big way as people went from owning to renting and how that has impacted the entire economy, how people look at things today and how they have become so much more nomadic. This whole traditional concept of home, yes it still exists and we still celebrate it, but what does home really mean? Does home have to be a physical destination or can home be a place in your mind?” Her presentation Wednesday will be one of the main

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