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Colour

Colour analysis reads three things — whether your colouring runs warm or cool, light or deep, clear or soft — and turns them into a palette. These pieces cover finding yours, telling the neighbouring seasons apart, and the practical decisions that follow: which white to buy, which neutral works as your black, and what changes when your hair does.

Three strips of fabric in closely related tones, laid side by side — Generated editorial imagery — never a product photograph.

Muted gold, dusty terracotta and greyed sage cloths, with a pure black and a bright pink set apart

Colour

Soft Autumn: the case for turning everything down

The gentlest of the three Autumns, and the one most often dressed too loudly. Soft Autumn wants warmth with the contrast taken out — here is what that means in practice.

Deep brick, dark teal and wine cloths over a near-black brown, with two pale dusty squares set apart

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Deep Autumn: the season that can carry the dark

Warmth and real depth together. Deep Autumn takes the richest, darkest end of the earth palette — and it is the one Autumn that can wear something close to black.

Fully saturated rust, ochre and olive cloths grouped over dark brown, with an icy blue and a pure white set apart

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True Autumn: wear the warmth at full strength

The mistake True Autumns make is dressing quietly. This palette is saturated, golden and meant to be worn at volume — here is what that looks like in a real wardrobe.

Rust, olive and ochre cloths grouped together with two cool pastels set apart at the edge

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Autumn: what to wear, and what to quietly stop buying

You have the season. This is the part that changes what you own — the neutrals that do the real work, the colours worth committing to, and the four things that keep letting Autumns down.

A macro row of five white cloths — optic, cream, ivory, oyster and chalk

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Which white should you wear

Optic, ivory, cream, ecru and oyster are five different colours, and only some of them suit you.

Silver-grey cloth with teal, amethyst, raspberry and ink blue squares and a platinum bar

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Dressing with grey hair

Going grey usually changes your colour season. What actually shifts, and what to do about it.

Six muted neutral cloths in a row with a single saturated scarlet leading them

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How to wear one statement colour without it wearing you

A method for using colour deliberately when most of what you own is neutral.

A square of navy cloth above four leather squares in tan, burgundy, nude and black

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What colour shoes go with a navy dress

Six answers, ranked by how often they work — and the one everybody reaches for that rarely does.

Camel coating cloth with cream, chocolate, navy and rust squares fanned beside it

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What goes with a camel coat

The most useful coat colour there is, and the three combinations that make it look expensive.

A macro row of four leather squares — light tan, chocolate, taupe and oxblood

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What goes with brown boots

Brown is a colour, not a neutral — which is why it is harder to place than black. A working method.

A stack of five folded neutral cloths with two accent squares set apart

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Building a capsule wardrobe from your season neutrals

Most capsule advice starts with the garments. Start with two neutrals and a metal instead, and the rest stops being a decision.

Two pairs of cool-toned fabric squares, one pair clear and pale, the other greyer

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Soft Summer vs Light Summer: the three tells

The two most-confused sub-seasons in the whole system. Both cool, both gentle — and they want different things from your wardrobe.

One square of rose cloth reading as two different colours either side of a hard light line

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Can you do colour analysis from a photo?

What a camera reads reliably, what it gets wrong, and how to take a photograph that gives an honest result.

A gold bar on warm ivory cloth beside a silver bar on cool blue-white cloth

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Warm, cool or neutral: finding your undertone without a filter

Undertone is the one thing about your colouring that never changes. Four ways to read it in daylight, and why the vein test keeps getting it wrong.

A professional draping fan of cloth swatches spread open in a wide arc

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What colour analysis costs in the UK

Studio sessions, draping, online consultations and app-based reads — what each one costs, and what you actually get for the money.

Folded fabric squares grouped into four quadrants, one for each colour season

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What colour season am I? A two-minute answer

The four seasons, the twelve sub-seasons, and three daylight tests that get you to yours without paying anyone.

Editorial imagery on the journal is generated — never a product photograph.

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