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Analogous combination + analogous combination



Double Complimentary Color Scheme
purple + yellow + green sweater with red + deep green scarf



Analogous color combnation
white sweater + yellow outer wear + deep green skirt + beige belt and blue clutch bag



Split Complimentary Color Scheme
brown inner wear + neon pink jumper + neon yellowish green skirt




Monochromatic
neon green jacket + brown capri and bag



Achromatic + monochromatic
White jumper + brown inner wear + neon orange skirt




Achromatic + Triad
white tee + grey bag + pink sleeveless jacket + blue stripe skirt + brown belt



Analogous color combination
brown + orange + green dress with beige belt




Analogous color combination
brown sweater with yellow spots and green pants



Analogous color combination
brown + orange checker and green under skirt with brown belt



Achrimatic + monochromatic color combination
white skirt + grey tone checker + yellow sleeveless jacket and brown belt

MILAN, September 24, 2008
By Sarah Mower

It's one of the highest accolades for any label when it can be said, by all and sundry, insiders and outsiders, that it "owns" a look. Marni has reached that serene plateau of development and is reveling in undisputed ownership of print, color, and the magpie mix-up. That means never having to grasp nervously for an extraneous trend. Downbeat dressing? Restraint and somber color? Not heard of here.Among her multi-textured, many-layered spots, stripes, blurry checks, painterly abstracts, harlequin lozenges, and splashy fifties flowers, Consuelo Castiglioni wove in an untrammeled sense of optimism and continuity. Her striped and frill-fronted cardigans; sparkly loop-fringe mini boleros; and dense, shimmery embroideries of multicolored spiky plastic paillettes were just some of the star moments. The bigger success, though, is how Castiglioni flings it all together, ties it up in the middle, adds a kneesock and a clunky platform, and yet still somehow manages to stop short of busy confusion. That simple/complicated knack is what keeps Marni lovers coming back for more, as well as the knowledge that the collection is a cherry picker's bonanza full of pieces that lend themselves to myriad personal styles.




Double analogous color combination



Low chroma
Achromatic + greyish pink



Warm + cool color combination
low chroma red and brown + blueish grey




Achromatic + Complementry color
grey jacket + brown belt + blue pattern pants



Achromatic + complementry color
grey shirt + orangey brown + greyish blue



Achromatic + monochromatic
grey skirt with brown + yellow + black pattern blouse



Achromatic + red tone
grey shirt + pink outer jumper + red skirt



Achromatic + traid
blue shirt + grey jacket + pink gloves + yellow and black checker skirt


Low chroma
analogous + greyish blue blouse and yellow pants



Cool + warm color combination
blue vest + red jacket with brown skirt



Complementry color combination
greyish blue upper part with yellowish brown lower part and gloves


MILAN, February 20, 2008
By Sarah Mower

In a season when "simplicity"—or, more accurately, a redefinition of the dead term "minimalism"—is preoccupying fashion debate, Consuelo Castiglioni filled in the blanks with color. She has a painterly eye for an offbeat choice of shades: dove gray against sugar pink, emerald with beige, sharp yellow and dusty mauve, muted pastels butting up against the odd shocking-bright hue. The shapes? Well, they were the lumpy-fit Marni classics that have unwittingly spawned a zillion cruder replicas: loose tunics, clunky cropped pants, quirky capes and dresses with sleeves cut to pouf out in unexpected directions.Layered up, it made a statement about color-blocked, tiered dressing and contrasting textures, topped off with dyed-fur gilets and capelets (a reminder of Marni's beginnings as a fur house). Truth to tell, there wasn't enough forward momentum in the clothes to break new ground—even in the prints, which were mainly limited to a couple of shadowy checks and a swirly pattern, possibly inspired by stained-glass windows. Still, the accessories picked up the slack: Stripe-printed tights and socks, leather gauntlets, nerdy-chic sunglasses, furry backpacks, sequined tie-on neckpieces, and open-toed platform knee boots were all quirky items that will keep the faithful very happy indeed.




Neutral color + diad



Achromatic + low chroma
black skirt + yellow blouse



Achromatic + complementry
blueish grey blouse with grey sleeves + yellow skirt + brown sandals



Achromatic + complementry
orangey brown blouse with grey sleeves + blue skirt



Achromatic + high chroma
grey + blue tee



Achromatic + complementry
white and green tee + neon pink pants









MILAN, September 26, 2007
By Sarah Mower

Marni has evolved into a staple formula that has moved from the eccentric margins to become one of the brands upon which Italy's pride as a style leader rests. Consuelo Castiglioni's taste in arty textiles, lately sharpened up with an injection of shiny techno surfaces, is absorbed by the mainstream within nanoseconds—a double-edged compliment many designers would kill for. How's she reacting to that pressure? Apparently by blanking it.Instead of rushing forward, Castiglioni took the don't-mess-with-success approach for Spring. Her easy-on-the-body loose-waisted shifts with their wonky-but-right abstract gathers and tucks have been seen before, though each merits praise as a one-off canvas for an exceptional print. This time, the color register ran through forest-y and watery greens to purple, mustard, grays, browns, cornflower and iris blues—only interrupted by a short blast of fluorescent orange somewhere in the middle. That inevitably drew the restless eye to seek out the things that are different in this collection. Qualifiers in that category were the stark white dress with plastic stones implanted in the neckline, cute petaled cone hats, tinsel bags, and the sharp half-moon sunglasses, which might jolt the market for giant face-covering shades in a new direction. Otherwise, Castiglioni didn't seem overly concerned with breaking too much new ground. That's sound from a brand-consistency point of view, though it slightly dashed the hopes of a crowd hungry for stop-the-press news out of Milan.






Neutral color + split complementary




Achromatic
white + grey + black



Achromatic + warm
black + brown



Achromatic
grey + black



Achromatic + complementry
grey + purple and yellow prints dress



Achromatic + warm
grey jacket + brown skirt + white belt









MILAN, February 21, 2007
By Sarah Mower


Legion are the women who want to be in the Marni-girl gang these days. On the runway, designer Consuelo Castiglioni's knack for layering up sporty-techno bits and pieces with shiny black PVC and odd shots of bright color and print is pushing this label out in front as one of the most refreshing forces in fashion. Last summer, she simply put sport-leggings under her favorite tunics, and the world ran after her. Now that she's sneaking elements of technical outdoorsy clothing into her wardrobe, the same thing will happen again. One glance at Marni's genius nylon platform-soled ski boots will set off a fan avalanche, guaranteed.It's partly the designer's talent for striding ahead without breaking continuity that does it. Her Marni girl has often been typecast as an eclectic, original spirit, but Castiglioni's no woolly thinker: She follows her ideas through from one season to the next, and people love her for it. Thus, she's playing with the same sort of shapes, like plain loose tunics and gray parallel pants, but is now mixing them up with nylon T-shirts, neoprene vests, PVC skirts, and down linings, then cinching it all in with a hefty webbing belt. If this sounds a bit of a mess, it's not—the really clever part is that the cheerfully arty charm of Marni carries it all along. This season it's there in the bright, multicolored marbled prints; the color blocking of magenta, royal blue, and green; the shaggy beaver and goat-hair coats. In the end, Marni achieves a unique, offbeat glamour along with a life-enhancing playfulness that is irresistible.

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My opinion of Marni

Do u wanna be a sweet beauty???
I think Marni can really help you!!!

Candy tone with offbeat color accomodate both together with layering mix and match. Also, straight silhouette with circle cut show the eclectic feeling of female.

In the s/s 09 collection, monochromatic vs offbeat color make the collection being playful and funny. With different hue of colors, perfectly match together to give a happy mood.

s/s 09 dries van noten

basically, black, grey and beige as main and yellow as a accent color

PARIS, October 1, 2008
By Sarah Mower

It feels like the fashion crowd has waited all season for the other shoe to drop: the moment when some designer would muster the clarity to arrange a viewing of clothes any woman could look at and think, Yep, I can see myself in that. In Paris, it was Dries Van Noten who assumed the mantle of spokesperson for every woman's everyday wear. "Accessible" and "pragmatic" can sound like synonyms for "boring" in the lexicon of fashion-speak, but Van Noten's simplified solutions for urban elegance quickly put a stop to that kind of talk.It was his marshaling of easy silk pieces that did it: breezy duster coats; shifts; and regular, non-freaky pants and shorts, pulled together with high heels, great jewelry, and sunglasses. As a look, it was a distinct move away from the layered, multi-printed, world-traveler groove he normally works. Restricting patterns to graphic grids, stripes, and checkerboards and color to black, white, and a section of orange, Van Noten subsumed the eclectic-ethnic effects into the jewelry and shoes: brass bells as necklaces, sequined tie-on wraps as bracelets, a note of "African" metal-studded craftwork in the ankle-strapped heels.For day, that made the kind of sense women all over the world will get—and for evening, there was a stellar moment that distilled something that spoke directly to the tradition of rational American sportswear elegance that has gone missing in recent years: a white shirt tucked into a long, sinuous gold Lurex skirt. Strange that it's taken a designer from Belgium to retrieve the power of that simplicity, but it felt spot-on.