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As The Sky From denim to chambray, blue is one of the colors most often used in textiles …	Blossoming Beauties Floral-printed fabrics have been a fashionable item for hundreds of years. Because they show the …	Roseate Once considered to represent all that is quintessentially girly, pink has crossed gender boundaries and …
Gold Offerings Once considered a fabric befitting a princess and popular for ecclesiastical use for centuries, gold …	Midnight Delight In the 14th century, black was a very expensive color to produce and so it …	Amethyst Abounds By the 4th century B.C., the color purple was worth its weight in silver. The …
Los Angeles Designers on the Runway at Art Hearts Fashion in New York	Tadashi Shoji Looks to Southeast Asia for His Fall/Winter 2019 Collection Photos courtesy of Getty Images	Rodarte Debuts Fall 2019 Collection in Southern California Photos by Tim Regas
Monique Lhuillier Unveils Pre-Fall for Her Ready-to-Wear Collection Photos courtesy of ML Monique Lhuillier	Fleur du Jour Ever-popular floral fabrics are used for men’s and women’s fashion as well as interior-design textiles …	Unleash the Beast Patterns of the world’s big cats are constants in the fashion world. Animal prints are …
Lovely & Lacy The embellishment of fashion designs with lace has long been common in bridal wear. Today, …	Viridescent From the Latin “viridis,” viridescent is a greenish hue. Years ago, to create green fabric, …	Blues News The oldest-known fabric dyed blue dates to 6,000 years ago and was discovered in Peru …
Sunsetty As the sun sets in the western sky, its reflection through the clouds provides beautiful …	Melange A varied mixture of fabrics allows designers to choose from a number of textures and …	Classically Striped Stripes are one of the most classic textile patterns around. Whether bold, wide or skinny, …
Animal Style Sensitivity to the use of real fur has led to the popularity of faux furs …	Impressions Cultures across the world have been printing on textiles for centuries. The development of computerized …