Analysis of Lacroix colour changes in his collection

F/HC2008






F/HC2007

F/HC 2006

F/ HC 2005

F/hc2004



F/HC2003




F/HC2002







We can see Lacroix's collection can divided into two style, one is with vabrient vivid colour which is high chroma, using of different hue, have a traditional, Gypsy Flammaco dresser and bull fighter feeling,... and other is in lower chroma, but usually using darker shaded colour, toned colour, it gives a royal spainish nobal feeling..

Early collection(HC02,04)

-Using more hue with same high chroma and tinted colour

The use of colour theory:

-Complementary colour scheme (purplr, yellow)

-Analogic colour scheme (red, magenta, orange)

-Achromatic Scheme (black, white)

-Analogic & complementary colour scheme (green, purple, red)

Also, Lacroix used a lot of primary colour (red)and secondary colour( green, purple), and the principle of novelty, such as the shocking pink, fluorescent green,magenta...Thus, it can catch the people eyes, rather than creating a harmony feeling....

Later collection (HC 08,07)

-Use more shaded and toned colour, maining using the tertiary colour(olives,Khaki)

The use of colour theory:

-Achromatic scheme (black white)

-Mono-chromatic scheme (beige, soft pink/ gold,khaki )

-Analogous colour scheme (Wine red, fuchsia/ blue green)

We can see Lacroix using try to create more harmony in his collection, by using the analogous colour , the adjacent colour in the colour wheel and monochromatic colour, whre he changed the value and saturation of the colour with the same hue... But , by watching the collection in a

whole, we can still see the complementary combination, like olives and wine red....khaki and purple..But the shaded tone (principle of resembalance ) make the whole collection more harmony...