Gen-Z Yellow

Long time since my last missive.

A topic we love: bold color.
It isn't for everyone. Try not to dismiss it out of hand.
You might like it. In small quantities.
Or maybe someday, in large ones!

Gen-Z Yellow


The 2018 Spring Runways which ran in the Fall of '17.

Vanity Fair
Rihanna in Gen-Z Yellow, September 2017.

The Gen-Z Yellow fashion trend popped up in 2017.
Gen-Zers are kids born between 1996 and 2010.  

Gen-Zers post their selfies (and other things)
on Instagram with #ArtHoe hashtags.
They often wear something yellow.

Simple as that, In-Your-Face Yellow became the signature color of
both Gen-Zers and the Art Hoe Movement.

Mars, one of Art Hoe's co-founders, in a self-portrait.

 The Guardian's 2015 article on Art Hoe covers the who/why/what

 of this movement.
In a nutshell: Art Hoe embraces QPOC teens expressing the angst of identity,
cultural and societal concepts, art, poetry.

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Fashion is one thing.
Does Gen-Z Yellow cross over from fashion to interiors?
Yes. And it's been around a lot longer than it walked the 2017 runways.

Scot Meacham Wood's Victoria Botanical in Marigold, aka Gen-Z Yellow
for the 2017 Dallas Show House. 
I love this.

Scot Meacham Wood Scot Meacham Wood never disappoints.

Mr. Wood's ensemble for the 2013 Peninsula Volunteers Showhouse

employed Gen-Z Yellow in a small, high-impact dose.

Lisa Erdmann's Master Bedroom for the

Inaugural Kips Bay Palm Beach Show House, December 2017.
Palm Beach Daily News, photo by Sargent Architectural Photography

Maybe a smaller dose?

J+G Design in Viyet, October 2017

Miles Redd is no stranger to color. The bolder the better. 

But always, always, tasteful.

And he's so cute.

via HouseBeautiful

Miles Redd for Ballard Designs
That shell console is quite the statement!
Mr. Redd launched his collection for Ballard Designs in August 2017.

My "Blue and White" porcelain looks great against bold yellow in my kitchen.

A porcelain Moon Flask lamp in my Family Room.
Vintage brass and glass end table. I'm its third owner.

As a color name for interiors, Gen-Z Yellow lacks everything for me.
It sounds like a name for a drug. Legal or otherwise.
I like these much better.

Amber
Bumble Bee
Canary, Corn,
Daffodil
Dandelion
Egg Yolk
Goldenrod
Lemon, Lemony
Marigold
Pineapple
Saffron, Sunflower, Sunshine
Vibrant


Rihanna, runways, and current culture aside, this color has been around a very long time.

It has been gracing interiors since the late 1700s.

The Dining Room at Monticello. via ElleDecor.
I've been to Monticello.

It was called Chrome Yellow in the late 1700s.
Chrome Yellow was expensive, five times the price of white pigment.
So, of course, it was the IT color of its day.

Jefferson kept tabs on what was IT and fashionable in Europe and damn the cost,
he lavished Monticello's dining room in the sunny glow of Chrome Yellow.

Early in the last century, we have Nancy Lancaster.




Nancy Lancaster's iconic yellow room.
That's Nancy in 1935 dressed to the nines for the Silver Jubilee Ball at Buckingham Palace.
In 1944 Nancy bought Sybil Colefax's decorating business.
She didn't change the business name and when she partnered
with John Fowler, it became the infamous Colefax and Fowler.


Long before President Jefferson and Nancy Lancaster, the ancient Chinese made
drop-dead gorgeous yellow and green porcelain.

Qing Dynasty, Green with Yellow Glaze

In case you missed it, Pink is the hue adopted by Gen-Z's older siblings,
Millennials, born between 1980 and 1995.
Not just any pink, Millennial Pink.

Wes Anderson's 2014 Hit, The Grand Budapest Hotel.
National Geographic

But that's another story!

I look forward to your comments on this sometimes polarizing color.

Thanks for reading,

Linda Pakravan