Archroma has announced that its quarterly trends in the orders of its colour standards and recipes seems to indicate a growing fondness among consumers for earth tones. Archroma is a global colour and specialty chemicals company headquartered in Reinach near Basel, Switzerland. It operates with 3,000 employees over 35 countries and with 25 production sites.
Archroma launched the Color Atlas by Archroma in 2016, a unique tool dedicated to providing fashion designers and stylists with off-the-shelf colour inspiration that can be implemented in production with just a few clicks. Today, the Color Atlas by Archroma contains 4,320 colours applicable on cotton poplin, almost double compared to similar tools available to textile and fashion specialists, with options for purer ingredients and lighter resource usage for brands exploring more sustainable collections. Engineered Color Standards empowered by NFC technology, as well as worldwide technical support, ensure seamless colour management from the colour selection to its implementation in production, according to a press release by Archroma.Archroma has announced that its quarterly trends in the orders of its colour standards and recipes seems to indicate a growing fondness among consumers for earth tones. Archroma is a global colour and specialty chemicals company headquartered in Reinach near Basel, Switzerland. It operates with 3,000 employees over 35 countries and with 25 production sites.#
The recent trend in colours is revealed by the most commonly ordered colour standards and recipe from the Archroma Color Atlas library, indicating a strong shift in home textiles, apparel and fashion towards warm earthy tones.
Earth tones have been up and coming over the past few years. The colours listed in Archroma’s ‘Top 10 Neutral Colours Trending Now’ are showing a longing for even much warmer tones in the recent months since the outbreak of the pandemic that has forced large parts of the population to stay at home - or at least work from home and drastically reduce their social life and interactions.
Interestingly, in its trend forecasts for 2020/2021 which were devised two years before the COVID-19 crisis, creative trend agency Carlin had already anticipated the growing need of individuals to refocus on what brings meaning to their lives. Carlin’s ‘Land’ trend described the growing concerns related to sustainability, the desire to reconnect with wilderness, the search for authenticity, and even the expression of more sobriety in consumption.
Archroma correlates this trend to the growing success of its EarthColors range of biomass-based dyes synthesized from wastes of the herbal or agricultural industries, such as almond husks, rosemary leaves or beetroot peels. EarthColors have seen an uptake on the market in the past year with a strong interest not only from fashion or denim brands but also from brands in the area of home décor with bed-linen collections in particular.
As people have been wearing more comfortable clothes at home during the past few months, the company has also seen more demand for the quieter tones among its range of Foron dyes than the usual bright colours in sportswear and athleisure.
Archroma anticipates that some of its solution systems supporting the consumers’ longing for more natural and calming tones will be in high demand in the coming months, in particular Color Caress, a nylon dyeing system for nude tones on bodywear and lingerie, or the upcoming ‘Casual x Smart’ system especially developed for elegant wash-down effects for versatile work-to-office casual wear.
Fibre2Fashion News Desk (GK)
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