Analysing celebrities colour choices can speak volumes regarding their cultural backgrounds. I studied the clothes and accessories of three celebrities from contrasting backgrounds to see whether there were any patterns betweeen their colour choices:
Actress Mischa Barton's style is a little eccentric; mixing patterned prints with unusually colour-coordinated separates giving a bohemian and hippyish look. This perhaps reflects her upbringing - moving from London, where she was born, to New York at the age of four. Her mother being a photographer may have also played an influence on her appreciation for creativity and experiementation, reflected by the colours of her clothes and accessories. Often seen wearing bright acidic colours of a high chroma level, she favours tones of lime, turquoise and yellow, often combining with gold accessories for a harmonious and analogous combination of colours.
Mischa Barton also favours cooler shades of deep purple and blue, often mixing harmonious tones together. Mischa often selectes darker and cooler shades for evening wear as a contemporary updated look of colours that could, if worn the wrong way, appear tedious and boring.
Indian actress Shilpa Shetty symbolises typical Central Asian fashions, wearing both traditional and contemporary pieces in high chroma and high value colours. Her background being Indian conjours up rich and vivid shades, often wearing magentas and cyan hues.
Shilpa Shetty also selects cyan hues in vibrant shades which reflects her cultural background in a Western update of Indian traditional wear. Dresses in long flowing shapes reminiscent of saris are decorated with gold embroidery and detailing, jewell embellishments and combined with animal print fabrics in a modern twist of traditional dress.
Chinese actress Huang Shengyi favours wearing lighter tints and neutral hues rather than bright and bold colours, perhaps linked to the cultural preferences of Chinese fashions that pastels are more appealing than brighter shades.
