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Drama | Colours

Drama colour palette is intense and theatrical: on a pitch black background, amethyst green, cobalt blue and spiced yellow offset the dense crimson, ruby and scarlet dominating the scene.

Research: Sakina Bezzaz for Autumn/Winter 2024.25 season.

Explore also the trends and materials of Drama!

colour palette with pantone codes

Raf Simons A/W 2018.19 campaign, ph. Willy Vanderperre

still life photo with flowers and model wearing knit with a boy portrait print

Ann Demeulemeester

woman on the catwalk with red satin dress and faux fur shrug

Raf Simons A/W 2018.19 campaign, ph. Willy Vanderperre

colour palette with pantone codes and contemporary art still life

Tiziano, ‘Tarquin and Lucretia’, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GBR)

17th century painting of a man threatening a naked woman in bed with a dagger

Alexander McQueen

photo of model wearing elegant black coat with big red embroidery

Caravaggio, ‘Conversion on the Way to Damascus’, Basilica di Santa Maria del Popolo, Roma (ITA)

17th century painting of a man lying under a horse

color palette with pantone codes and contemporary art painting still life with rotten fruit, insects and dead bird

color palette with pantone codes and contemporary art painting of Asian man with brush and woman lying down

dipinto di arte contemporanea con donna asiatica con drappo rosso seduta a terra

contemporary art painting with decorated plate containing cube made of bowel and eyes

Laura Makabresku

photo of a naked woman’s bust with red roses and white dove

woman on the catwalk with long red dress and cape with macro sequins

contemporary art work with rotting red apple

contemporary art work with bloody gutted fish inside a glass bowl

Alexander McQueen

man on the catwalk in black suit with red gradient print jacket

woman on the catwalk in a long blue chenille dress, furry shoes and a yellow bag

Artemisia Gentileschi, ‘Judith Slaying Holofernes’ (1612-17), Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Napoli (ITA).

17th century painting of 2 women beheading a man in bed

Caravaggio, ‘Boy bitten by a lizard’ (1595-96), Fondazione Longhi, Firenze (ITA).

17th century painting of a boy bitten by a lizard and roses

contemporary art painting with plastic cups and bottles as a seventeenth century painting by Abraham van Beyeren