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These are the colours you’ll be wearing next year according to experts

Pantone say brighter colours are expected to make a splash!
The colours Pantone says you'll be wearing next year

Every year, the Pantone Color Institute reveals a range of colours they believe will be ‘on trend’ for the upcoming season – and we will be thinking bright in 2017.

There’s a fair bit of analysis that goes into predicting colours – the team examines everything from the economic climate to pop culture to determine which colours are likely to have the most influence during the next season.

Pantone’s colour of year holds sway as the highest colour accolade, each season they release a report of colours to watch – and they’ve just announced their Fashion Colour Report for Spring 2017.

In it, they name 10 colours that will be big next year, and they range from a fuchsia pink to one called kale.

Pantone’s Top 10 Colors for Spring 2017

Kate Middleton has already embraced the trend in a blue Jenny Packham dress as she touched down in Canada at the start of the Royal tour.

The fashion-forward princess was actually streets ahead of the masses, in the soon to be very on-trend colour of next season, Lapis Blue.

Kate Middleton wears a Jenny Packham lapis blue dress.

According to Pantone, the 10 hot colours are a mixture of vitality, relaxation and the outdoors.

“One of the things that we saw this year was a renewed sense of imagination in which colour was appearing in context that was different than the traditional,” said Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute.

“From the warmth of sunny days with PANTONE 13-0755 Primrose Yellow to the invigorating feeling of breathing fresh mountain air with PANTONE 18-0107 Kale and the desire to escape to pristine waters with PANTONE 14-4620 Island Paradise, designers applied color in playful, yet thoughtful and precise combinations to fully capture the promises, hope and transformation that we yearn for each Spring.”

The most recent colour picks from the company were rose quartz and serenity, and were quickly seen everywhere from fashion to home wear.

Rose Quartz (Pantone 13-1520) left and Serenity (Pantone 15-3919) right

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