Complementary color scheme (Fashion collections) - Fall 2006 RTW

The Theme
Christian Dior's Fall 2006 RTW collection is inspired by French revolution in 1789-1799, mixing with Metallic and Rock and roll music.

The color family of whole collection

The main color of this collection is bloody red. This is how designer present the image of violent and trigical "Wars" in French revolution.
So how the designer present the story? First, there are very little light grayish green and white at the outfits at beginning, represent peace and pure, which act as a contrast to the violent Bloody red at the later part of the collection. (Green and Red are complementary matching).
Moreover, all these colors are applied on shiny fabrics, to present the feeling of Metallic Music.

Beginning of the collection - Light grayish Green major
Let's take an example:

- Major color: Grayish Green. To look delicately, some parts of the body fabric was made of shiny fabric, which can reflect the lights, result a different tone for the same color. Therefore, we can say this outfit is using Mono-chromatic color scheme.

- Accessories:
* the leather hand bag - It's Deep Wine-red. with a line of light brown as a foil. This is complementary match with the outfit color.
* the "cross" necklace - It's also red in color, matching due to the same theory.


Later on - Bloody red to present violence
Let's see below example:


Although the whole collection is using complementary colors, in each outfits, he used the principle of resemblance to maintain harmony matching of colors.
***major color: Deep reddish brown. John Galliano used different materials to present the same color, to made it look different. Like this outfit - the fur, the leather, the lighter knitted blouses....reflects light in different degree.