setting the tone
For me, color is about context. Though I get the concept of a favorite, I never understand it when someone says they hate orange, or red, or brown. How can you hate a color? What about that orange sliver of sun setting over the Pacific or the red-on-red of a poppy or a devil’s food cake dripping with chocolate? What’s not to love? When we started talking about our 2016 Color Palette of the Year, I have to admit I wasn’t entirely on board. I couldn’t reconcile pastel pink with strong blue, orange, and dark gray. But I knew I could trust the unerring eye of our style director, Jessica Thomas (that’s us on set, left ). And of course, now I love this set of colors (page 110). By adjusting…
