Pantone Shade for 2015?

B'stard Pink.

 

Oh yes, I can see this colour really catching on, can't you?

I couldn't believe it when Mr B told me about it.

all photos, except this one, from Google

 It is the name used for a certain colour of lighting gel, which is like a heavier version of a cellophane sweet wrapper that you cut from a roll to fit in front of a stage lighting lamp. I thought they were just red, pink, yellow etc or possibly a number, as there is a huge choice of colours available.

 

But b'stard pink and its cousin b'stard amber are for real and do, in fact, cast a wonderful glow for human flesh.

the wonderful Mayall character of Alan B'stard MP
genius!

 Now, I had intended to just do this as a post 'cos I like the Pantone year shades, (here and here), but this, sadly, can  also link to the sad demise of Rik Mayall today at the too young age of 56.

 

I have 2 memories of Mayall.

The first time I met him in the flesh was when Fashion Aid was on at the Royal Albert Hall and I was working at London Festival Ballet; we had all the dancers and extras corralled in the dance studios and he was messing around with this fleshy-coloured T-shirt, (the Katherine Hamnett one from the show possibly?), rolling it up and sticking it through his open flies, so it looked like a penis!

As Rick from the brilliant 'The Young Ones'

The second time, I was at Chelsea Design and he came in with one of his 2(!) partners and a small toddler, dressed in Osh Kosh dungarees and tiny baseball boots. They said they wanted an outfit for the child to wear at a wedding. So I ushered them towards the pastel silk pageboy outfits...to be told that the child was a girl! Ooops!


oh my, hasn't she grown

(Though that faux pas was nothing next to the clanger I dropped with  Chantal Hanover - it still makes me cringe even now!)

If you have 6 minutes to spare do watch this snippet of film from Fashion Aid. I do believe there is a VHS video of it, (which I NEED to own NOW), that has Freddie Mercury and Jane Seymour getting married! It is beyond...anything I can think of!



Pink Leatherette

 

 

Taking the Pantone 'colour of the year' (Radiant Orchid), bag back out of its' storage bag and giving it an airing on such a sunny day.

 

the 'oh-my-god-hurry-up-the-bus-is-coming' face

Coat (German company, years old and a six quid bargain), bag LYDC (who?), scarf (Italian company) and shoes (Guess) from TK Maxx, blouse from Yours and trousers from Evans. I really do buy my stuff from all over the place!

Zxx

Colour Of The Year

 This has been deemed, by those 'in the know' as The Colour of the Year.

My bargainous Essie nail varnish, Turquoise & Caicos, about a fiver in a pack with their ridge filling base coat, from TKMaxx.

 

 

'In the flesh', so to speak.





 

The sky this early morning was not as blue as it looks in this hastily taken, sleepy-eyed, photo.

It really was the colour of the year...a green sky!
 

Spooky!