Queen of Knitwear - Sonia Rykiel

F/W 2008 Collection

Colour Palette: Black, white, brilliant pink & Harmony tone(Candy-coloured): brown, pink, peach, yellow, light grey, pastel green, orange.

Though I'm not sure that the theme of this collection whether is "The swan" or not, I can see there is some features that can signify it. In the story of "The swan lake", there are two main roles - white swan and black swan, who represent positive and negative. I think that perhaps the designer may be inspirated from the story~~ Therefore, the main colour of this collection are black and white.

At the same time, since swan always gives us the feeling of gentle, sweet and fairy, therefore Rykiel would like to use the candy tone in this collection.

However, the reason why she use the brilliant pink to some outfits, I guess that it is because of the principle of novelty. In this principle, although people like harmoniours or balanced colour schemes, harmony quickly becomes boring. As a result, a new or unexpected combination wil draw attention to itself and make the entire composition more pleasing and harmonious.