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7 LUXURY COLOR COMBINATIONS EVERY ELEGANT WOMAN SHOULD KNOW — Transcript

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  1. 0:00I want to tell you something that took
  2. 0:01me 15 years inside the luxury fashion
  3. 0:04industry to understand clearly.
  4. 0:07The women who walk into a room and
  5. 0:08register instantly as elegant,
  6. 0:11as expensive, as composed, as women who
  7. 0:14belong in important spaces, are almost
  8. 0:17never wearing the most elaborate
  9. 0:18outfits. They are almost never wearing
  10. 0:21the most recognizable brands.
  11. 0:22>> [music]
  12. 0:23>> What they are doing every single time is
  13. 0:25wearing color in a way that most women
  14. 0:27have never been taught.
  15. 0:28>> [music]
  16. 0:28>> Not more color.
  17. 0:30Not bolder color. Color in specific
  18. 0:32combinations governed by principles that
  19. 0:35are almost never written down
  20. 0:36explicitly, because the women who know
  21. 0:39them learned them by being in rooms
  22. 0:40where these things were simply
  23. 0:42understood. They were not taught in
  24. 0:44fashion school.
  25. 0:45>> [music]
  26. 0:45>> They were not posted on Pinterest
  27. 0:46boards.
  28. 0:47They were absorbed over years in
  29. 0:50environments most women never had access
  30. 0:52to. Most women approach color one of two
  31. 0:54ways.
  32. 0:55>> [music]
  33. 0:55>> They match everything, which reads as
  34. 0:57effort rather than ease.
  35. 1:00Or they avoid color entirely, retreating
  36. 1:02to all black, which solves the problem
  37. 1:05by eliminating it, [music] and creates a
  38. 1:06different problem entirely, particularly
  39. 1:09after 50.
  40. 1:10Today, I'm giving you seven specific
  41. 1:12color combinations with the exact
  42. 1:14principle behind each one
  43. 1:16>> [music]
  44. 1:16>> that will permanently change how you
  45. 1:18dress and how you are received when you
  46. 1:20walk into any room.
  47. 1:22Before we go into the details of today's
  48. 1:24video, I have a free gift for you.
  49. 1:26>> [music]
  50. 1:26>> It's something I know you'd appreciate.
  51. 1:29I have read a lot of comments from some
  52. 1:30of you asking for this, and I decided to
  53. 1:33build a checklist around it.
  54. 1:35It is called the elegant morning routine
  55. 1:37checklist. 12 rituals of women who are
  56. 1:39timeless, healthy, and undeniable after
  57. 1:4240. It is the morning architecture that
  58. 1:44puts everything I described today into
  59. 1:46daily practice. Cortisol protection,
  60. 1:49protein first nutrition, movement,
  61. 1:51silence, grooming standards, and the
  62. 1:53identity rituals that make all of it
  63. 1:56sustainable.
  64. 1:57>> [music]
  65. 1:57>> Every page is a deliberate act of
  66. 1:59self-respect.
  67. 2:01See the first link in the description
  68. 2:02below to grab it right now for free or
  69. 2:05scan the QR code on your screen if
  70. 2:07you're watching on TV. When you do get
  71. 2:09it, remember to email me your feedback
  72. 2:11about your takeaway from it. I love to
  73. 2:14read those emails. Now, let's get into
  74. 2:16today's seven combinations.
  75. 2:18One, tonal variation within a single
  76. 2:21hue, why matching is the enemy of
  77. 2:23elegance.
  78. 2:24The most common mistake women make with
  79. 2:26color is also the one that feels the
  80. 2:28safest,
  81. 2:29>> [music]
  82. 2:29>> matching. Same shade top to bottom,
  83. 2:32piece to piece. It feels coordinated, it
  84. 2:35feels considered, and it reads to anyone
  85. 2:37who understands how expensive dressing
  86. 2:39actually works as the single clearest
  87. 2:42signal that someone learned about color
  88. 2:43from a department store display rather
  89. 2:45than from observation. I'm going to show
  90. 2:48you what expensive dressing actually
  91. 2:50looks like in terms of color. [music]
  92. 2:52But first, there is something you need
  93. 2:54to understand about why matching fails.
  94. 2:57>> [music]
  95. 2:57>> In my years as a buyer and consultant
  96. 2:59for luxury fashion brands, I attended
  97. 3:02more trunk shows, showroom
  98. 3:03presentations, and editorial fittings
  99. 3:06than I can accurately count. And one
  100. 3:08pattern repeated itself without
  101. 3:10exception across every brand at the top
  102. 3:13of the market. Their lookbooks never
  103. 3:15showed a matched outfit.
  104. 3:16>> [music]
  105. 3:16>> The camel blazer was paired with a
  106. 3:18slightly deeper camel trouser. The ivory
  107. 3:21blouse sat against an oat-colored skirt.
  108. 3:24The cream coat was layered over a warm
  109. 3:26white rollneck.
  110. 3:27The colors were related, unmistakably
  111. 3:30from the same family, but they were
  112. 3:31never identical.
  113. 3:32>> [music]
  114. 3:33>> I asked a creative director at one of
  115. 3:35the houses I worked with why this was a
  116. 3:37deliberate choice.
  117. 3:38Her answer was precise, matching tells
  118. 3:41people you tried to coordinate. Tonal
  119. 3:43variation tells people you understand
  120. 3:45color. Those are two completely
  121. 3:47different messages. The psychology
  122. 3:49behind this has been examined in visual
  123. 3:51perception research.
  124. 3:53Studies on how observers assess the
  125. 3:55appearance of outfits found that exact
  126. 3:58color matching across multiple garments
  127. 4:00reads as deliberate and formulaic.
  128. 4:03The brain perceives it as an obvious
  129. 4:05attempt at coordination and processes it
  130. 4:08as effort.
  131. 4:09Slight tonal variation within a color
  132. 4:11family by contrast is processed as
  133. 4:13sophistication.
  134. 4:15The brain reads it as the kind of
  135. 4:16nuanced color knowledge that comes from
  136. 4:18long familiarity with quality clothing
  137. 4:20rather than from following a rule.
  138. 4:23Resolve. [music]
  139. 4:24The rule is this, never match exactly.
  140. 4:26Instead, choose two or three pieces from
  141. 4:29the same color family, camel and tan and
  142. 4:31ivory for example, or slate and steel
  143. 4:34and dove.
  144. 4:35And allow them to vary in depth and
  145. 4:37warmth [music] while remaining
  146. 4:38unmistakably related.
  147. 4:40The darkest shade anchors the outfit,
  148. 4:43the lightest lifts it, the middle tone
  149. 4:45connects them. This is tonal dressing.
  150. 4:48It is the foundation of every
  151. 4:50combination that follows.
  152. 4:52Here is where most people stop. And the
  153. 4:54next combination addresses a specific
  154. 4:56pairing that has signaled wealth and
  155. 4:58refinement across every culture [music]
  156. 5:00and every century of documented fashion
  157. 5:02history. Most women assume they know
  158. 5:04what it is. They are almost always
  159. 5:06wrong.
  160. 5:07Two, warm neutral and muted jewel, the
  161. 5:11timeless wealth signal.
  162. 5:12If I asked most women to name the color
  163. 5:15combination that reads as wealthy and
  164. 5:17refined across cultures, across decades,
  165. 5:20across every context, most would say
  166. 5:22black and white. It is the obvious
  167. 5:24answer. It is also not the correct one.
  168. 5:27The combination that has signaled quiet
  169. 5:29generational wealth consistently across
  170. 5:31time is one most women have never been
  171. 5:33told to reach for deliberately. I'm
  172. 5:36going to name it and explain exactly why
  173. 5:38it works.
  174. 5:39But first, there is something you need
  175. 5:41to understand about why black and white,
  176. 5:43for all its elegance, does not carry the
  177. 5:46same signal.
  178. 5:47My mother, Claudine, had a particular
  179. 5:49way of dressing that I absorbed before I
  180. 5:52had the vocabulary to describe it. She
  181. 5:54was from Lyon, a city with a tradition
  182. 5:56of textile and color that runs centuries
  183. 5:59deep, and she dressed with a specificity
  184. 6:01about tone that I recognized as distinct
  185. 6:04from how most of the American women
  186. 6:06around me dressed, but could not
  187. 6:08articulate until my career gave me the
  188. 6:10framework for it. Her version of dressed
  189. 6:12up was almost never black and white. It
  190. 6:15was a warm camel coat over a deep teal
  191. 6:17dress, an oyster silk blouse tucked into
  192. 6:20a muted plum skirt, a stone-colored
  193. 6:22blazer with deep forest green trousers.
  194. 6:25These were the combinations that carried
  195. 6:27her through every important room she
  196. 6:29entered, and they shared a precise
  197. 6:31characteristic:
  198. 6:32a warm neutral, something with yellow,
  199. 6:34[music] amber, or sand undertone,
  200. 6:37paired with a jewel tone that had been
  201. 6:38muted, desaturated, pulled toward gray
  202. 6:42or brown, rather than left at its full
  203. 6:44intensity.
  204. 6:45The reason this pairing reads as wealth,
  205. 6:47rather than simply as color, is grounded
  206. 6:49in the history of textile production.
  207. 6:52Saturated, bright jewel tones were
  208. 6:54historically achievable with synthetic
  209. 6:56dyes at mass-market price points. Muted,
  210. 6:59desaturated jewel tones, teal pulled
  211. 7:02toward slate, burgundy [music] pulled
  212. 7:03toward brown, forest green pulled toward
  213. 7:05olive, required more complex dyeing
  214. 7:08processes and more expensive natural dye
  215. 7:10sources. The muted version was the
  216. 7:12expensive version. The brain has tained
  217. 7:15this association even as production
  218. 7:16costs [music] have changed. Resolve: the
  219. 7:19combination, one warm neutral, camel,
  220. 7:22stone, sand, oyster, ivory, [music]
  221. 7:24paired with one muted jewel, muted teal,
  222. 7:27muted plum,
  223. 7:29muted forest, muted amber.
  224. 7:32The keyword is muted. If the jewel tone
  225. 7:34looks like it belongs on a crayon, pull
  226. 7:36it darker and grayer before you wear it.
  227. 7:38This pairing works in every season,
  228. 7:40every context, and at every formality
  229. 7:43level, it is the most versatile, elegant
  230. 7:45combination in existence. But here is
  231. 7:47where most people stop. And the next
  232. 7:49combination concerns an element most
  233. 7:50women are already wearing, but wearing
  234. 7:53in a way that is [music] quietly
  235. 7:55canceling every other correct color
  236. 7:57decision they make.
  237. 7:59Combination three,
  238. 8:01the metallic you are wearing wrong.
  239. 8:03Most women think about metallic in terms
  240. 8:05of which metal, gold versus silver, and
  241. 8:08whether it matches their jewelry.
  242. 8:09>> [music]
  243. 8:10>> This is the wrong framework entirely.
  244. 8:12The question that determines whether a
  245. 8:14metallic element elevates an [music]
  246. 8:16outfit or collapses it has nothing to do
  247. 8:18with which metal and everything to do
  248. 8:20with one specific principle [music] that
  249. 8:22almost no one names explicitly.
  250. 8:24In my consulting work, I reviewed
  251. 8:26hundreds of editorial looks across
  252. 8:28European luxury houses over 15 years.
  253. 8:32And I noticed a consistent principle in
  254. 8:34how the houses that dressed the most
  255. 8:36impeccably turned out women used
  256. 8:37metallic. [music]
  257. 8:39They never used it as the temperature
  258. 8:40anchor of the outfit. They used it as a
  259. 8:43single, deliberate interruption in an
  260. 8:46otherwise tonal or neutral palette. And
  261. 8:48that interruption was always warm or
  262. 8:50cool to match the underlying temperature
  263. 8:52of the palette it was interrupting,
  264. 8:55never in conflict with it.
  265. 8:57A woman I know, a corporate attorney who
  266. 8:59has sat across from some of the most
  267. 9:01scrutinizing audiences in American law,
  268. 9:04told me she had worn a cool-toned silver
  269. 9:06belt with a warm camel outfit to an
  270. 9:09important dinner and could not
  271. 9:10understand why the overall effect felt
  272. 9:12slightly off, despite each individual
  273. 9:15piece being beautiful.
  274. 9:17I looked at a photograph she showed me.
  275. 9:19The silver was fighting the warmth of
  276. 9:20everything around it.
  277. 9:22The outfit had no coherent temperature.
  278. 9:25The metallic, which should have been a
  279. 9:26focal point, was instead a disruption.
  280. 9:28The principle from color theory that
  281. 9:30explains this, every palette has a
  282. 9:32temperature.
  283. 9:33Warm palettes, camel, ivory, tan, rust,
  284. 9:36cream, want warm metallics. Gold,
  285. 9:39bronze, champagne, antique brass.
  286. 9:40[music]
  287. 9:42Cool palettes, slate, navy, dove gray,
  288. 9:44white, want cool metallics. Silver,
  289. 9:46white gold, platinum, pewter.
  290. 9:49Introducing the wrong temperature
  291. 9:50metallic into a palette is the visual
  292. 9:52equivalent of one note played slightly
  293. 9:54flat in an otherwise correct chord.
  294. 9:56>> [music]
  295. 9:56>> The ear and the eye registers the
  296. 9:58conflict without always being able to
  297. 10:00name it. Resolve.
  298. 10:02Before you add any metallic jewelry,
  299. 10:04shoes, bag hardware, belt, ask one
  300. 10:07question. Is this outfit warm or cool?
  301. 10:10Then match the temperature of your
  302. 10:11metallic to the answer. Warm palette,
  303. 10:13gold, bronze, champagne.
  304. 10:16Cool palette, silver, pewter, white
  305. 10:18gold. [music]
  306. 10:19This single adjustment is the difference
  307. 10:21between a metallic element that elevates
  308. 10:23and one that disrupts. Which is exactly
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  320. 10:49And here is where most people stop.
  321. 10:51>> [music]
  322. 10:51>> And the next combination addresses
  323. 10:53something that has become widely
  324. 10:54discussed, but almost never correctly
  325. 10:56explained.
  326. 10:57Tonal dressing.
  327. 10:59Four. Why tonal dressing reads as quiet
  328. 11:02wealth.
  329. 11:03Tonal dressing, wearing one color family
  330. 11:05head to toe, has become a recognized
  331. 11:07aesthetic in recent years. Most people
  332. 11:10explain its elegance as simplicity. Less
  333. 11:12is more. [music]
  334. 11:13The absence of contrast reads as
  335. 11:14refined. That explanation is incomplete,
  336. 11:17and more importantly, it does not tell
  337. 11:18you how to execute tonal dressing
  338. 11:20correctly. Because tonal dressing done
  339. 11:22wrong reads as monotonous, not
  340. 11:24expensive. The reason it reads as quiet
  341. 11:27wealth when done correctly is more
  342. 11:29specific than simplicity.
  343. 11:31I'm going to give you the real
  344. 11:32mechanism, but first, there is something
  345. 11:35you need to understand about what the
  346. 11:37eye is doing when it processes a tonal
  347. 11:39outfit.
  348. 11:40I dress tonally for any room where I
  349. 11:42want my presence, [music] my composure,
  350. 11:44my conversation, my credibility to be
  351. 11:47the primary signal rather than my
  352. 11:49clothing. [music] A board dinner, a
  353. 11:51significant client meeting, any
  354. 11:53environment where I want people to
  355. 11:55register me, not my outfit. This is a
  356. 11:58deliberate choice, and I made it
  357. 12:00deliberately for the first time in my
  358. 12:02early 40s
  359. 12:03after watching how the most commanding
  360. 12:05women in the rooms I moved through
  361. 12:07>> [music]
  362. 12:07>> dressed for high-stakes occasions. They
  363. 12:10were almost always in one color family.
  364. 12:13And what I observed, and what I have
  365. 12:15since understood through both my study
  366. 12:17of visual perception research and my
  367. 12:19years in the luxury industry
  368. 12:22is that [music] the reason tonal
  369. 12:23dressing communicates authority is not
  370. 12:26that it is simple.
  371. 12:27It is that it is controlled. A tonal
  372. 12:30outfit demonstrates that the wearer has
  373. 12:32the color knowledge to work within a
  374. 12:33single family and find [music] enough
  375. 12:35variation within it to create visual
  376. 12:37interest.
  377. 12:39That is a more sophisticated skill than
  378. 12:41combining multiple colors.
  379. 12:43The outfit says, "I understand color
  380. 12:45well enough that I don't need contrast
  381. 12:47to make this work."
  382. 12:49Research on status perception in dress
  383. 12:51found that outfits with high internal
  384. 12:53coherence, where every element belongs
  385. 12:56to a clearly considered system, were
  386. 12:58rated significantly higher in perceived
  387. 13:00status and intelligence
  388. 13:02>> [music]
  389. 13:02>> than outfits with the same individual
  390. 13:04pieces assembled without a unifying
  391. 13:06principle.
  392. 13:07Tonal dressing is the most legible form
  393. 13:09of internal coherence available in a
  394. 13:11palette. Resolve.
  395. 13:13>> [music]
  396. 13:13>> To execute tonal dressing with authority
  397. 13:16choose one color family, then vary three
  398. 13:18things within it: depth, warmth, and
  399. 13:21texture.
  400. 13:22Lighter shade on top, deeper shade on
  401. 13:24bottom, matte finish paired with slight
  402. 13:27sheen. Structured piece paired with
  403. 13:29something softer. The variation creates
  404. 13:31visual interest. The tonal coherence
  405. 13:34creates the authority signal. This is
  406. 13:36the combination that reads as quiet
  407. 13:38wealth because it demonstrates exactly
  408. 13:39the level of color literacy that quiet
  409. 13:41wealth has always had.
  410. 13:43Five,
  411. 13:44burgundy, the bold color that reads as
  412. 13:47restraint.
  413. 13:48Most women who want to incorporate
  414. 13:50bolder color into their wardrobe are
  415. 13:52told to start with accessories. [music]
  416. 13:54A colored bag, a scarf, a shoe. Keep the
  417. 13:56body neutral and let one element carry
  418. 13:58the color. This is reasonable guidance
  419. 14:01for most bold colors.
  420. 14:02>> [music]
  421. 14:02>> Burgundy is the exception and most women
  422. 14:05either avoid it entirely believing it
  423. 14:07too dark or too seasonal or wear it
  424. 14:09without understanding why it
  425. 14:11consistently reads differently from
  426. 14:12every other color in the bold category.
  427. 14:15I'm going to explain exactly what
  428. 14:17burgundy is doing that no other bold
  429. 14:19color does. But first, there is
  430. 14:22something you need to understand about
  431. 14:23how the eye reads color temperature
  432. 14:25against [music] skin.
  433. 14:27My mother wore burgundy the way most
  434. 14:29women wear navy as a reliable year-round
  435. 14:32anchor that worked with almost
  436. 14:34everything.
  437. 14:35I inherited that relationship with it
  438. 14:37without fully understanding why it was
  439. 14:39so consistently successful across so
  440. 14:41many different contexts and skin tones
  441. 14:44until my years in the industry gave me
  442. 14:46the color science behind her instinct.
  443. 14:49Burgundy sits at the intersection of red
  444. 14:51and brown. It carries the warmth and
  445. 14:53depth of a jewel tone while being
  446. 14:55simultaneously desaturated enough to
  447. 14:58read as a neutral in terms of visual
  448. 15:00weight.
  449. 15:01Red draws the eye because of its
  450. 15:03saturation and its psychological
  451. 15:05association with urgency and attention.
  452. 15:08Burgundy draws the eye because of its
  453. 15:09warmth and depth but without the urgency
  454. 15:12signal because the brown undertone
  455. 15:14dampens the activation response that
  456. 15:16pure red triggers in the visual cortex.
  457. 15:19The result is a color that is clearly
  458. 15:21not neutral, clearly deliberate, and yet
  459. 15:24does not read as attention-seeking.
  460. 15:26>> [music]
  461. 15:26>> It reads as decided. A fashion director
  462. 15:28whose work I followed during my
  463. 15:30consulting years described burgundy as
  464. 15:32>> [music]
  465. 15:32>> the only color that can anchor an entire
  466. 15:35look without dominating it. That is a
  467. 15:37precise description of what makes it
  468. 15:39different. You can wear burgundy as the
  469. 15:41primary color of an outfit, dress,
  470. 15:43trousers, [music] coat, and it functions
  471. 15:45as an anchor rather than a statement.
  472. 15:47Resolve.
  473. 15:48>> [music]
  474. 15:48>> Pair burgundy with warm neutral, camel,
  475. 15:51stone, cream, tan for the most
  476. 15:53consistently elegant combination it
  477. 15:55produces. [music]
  478. 15:57Burgundy with camel is the warm neutral
  479. 15:59and muted jewel pairing from combination
  480. 16:01two at its most accessible and most
  481. 16:03universally flattering.
  482. 16:05Wear burgundy as the dominant color, not
  483. 16:07the accent. [music]
  484. 16:09Let it anchor.
  485. 16:10Add the warm neutral as the secondary
  486. 16:12element. This is the combination that
  487. 16:14reads as bold and restrained
  488. 16:16simultaneously,
  489. 16:17which is, in color terms, the definition
  490. 16:20of elegant. But here is where most
  491. 16:22people stop, and the next combination
  492. 16:24concerns the color most women default to
  493. 16:26as their anchor. And after [music] 50,
  494. 16:29that default is doing something to the
  495. 16:31face that most women have not been told
  496. 16:33clearly enough to change it.
  497. 16:36Combination six, why black ages the face
  498. 16:39after 50 and what to wear instead.
  499. 16:42Black is the most relied upon color in
  500. 16:44most women's wardrobes. [music]
  501. 16:46It is the default anchor, the safe
  502. 16:47choice, the color that goes with
  503. 16:49everything and requires no further
  504. 16:51thought.
  505. 16:52After 50, it is also the color that is
  506. 16:55most consistently working against the
  507. 16:56face of the woman wearing it near it.
  508. 16:59And the reason is physiological, not
  509. 17:01subjective. I'm going to give you the
  510. 17:03specific mechanism and the two colors
  511. 17:05that replace black as the correct dark
  512. 17:07anchor after 50.
  513. 17:09But first, there is something you need
  514. 17:11to understand about what happens to
  515. 17:13skin's undertone with age.
  516. 17:16I stopped wearing black anywhere near my
  517. 17:18face in my early 40s. Not from a rule I
  518. 17:21had read, but from photographs.
  519. 17:23I noticed that in photographs taken at
  520. 17:25events where I wore a black neckline
  521. 17:27close to my face, my complexion looked
  522. 17:29flatter.
  523. 17:31The shadows under my eyes were more
  524. 17:32pronounced, and the overall effect was a
  525. 17:35slightly depleted version of myself. In
  526. 17:37photographs where I wore navy or deep
  527. 17:40espresso in the same position, the
  528. 17:42complexion read as warmer, brighter,
  529. 17:44[music] and more vital. The
  530. 17:45dermatologist in my network explained
  531. 17:47the mechanism.
  532. 17:49As skin ages past 50, melanin
  533. 17:51distribution becomes less uniform. The
  534. 17:54skin's overall pigmentation lightens
  535. 17:56slightly, and the undertone frequently
  536. 17:58shifts warmer as the pinkness of youth
  537. 18:00recedes, and yellow golden undertones
  538. 18:02become more dominant.
  539. 18:04Pure black,
  540. 18:05>> [music]
  541. 18:05>> which has no undertone at all, creates
  542. 18:07maximum contrast against the face.
  543. 18:10And high contrast near the face after 50
  544. 18:12emphasizes every shadow, line, and area
  545. 18:15of uneven pigmentation rather than
  546. 18:16softening them.
  547. 18:18Navy, which carries a blue undertone,
  548. 18:21and deep espresso, which carries a warm
  549. 18:23brown undertone, create the depth and
  550. 18:25anchoring effect of black while
  551. 18:27reflecting enough warm or cool light
  552. 18:29toward the face to counteract rather
  553. 18:30than amplify the contrast effect.
  554. 18:33Resolve.
  555. 18:34Replace [music] black as your dark
  556. 18:35anchor near the face with navy or deep
  557. 18:37espresso, chosen based on your skin's
  558. 18:40undertone.
  559. 18:41Cooler, pinker undertones, [music]
  560. 18:43navy.
  561. 18:44Warmer, golden undertones, deep
  562. 18:46espresso.
  563. 18:47Neither requires you to abandon your
  564. 18:49existing wardrobe. They pair with
  565. 18:51everything black pairs with at every
  566. 18:53formality level,
  567. 18:54>> [music]
  568. 18:54>> and they will consistently produce a
  569. 18:56more vital, more luminous result in the
  570. 18:58face of the woman wearing them.
  571. 19:00But here is where most people stop. And
  572. 19:03the final combination is the one that
  573. 19:05the most impeccably dressed women in
  574. 19:07important rooms use consistently,
  575. 19:09and that almost no one has identified as
  576. 19:12a color combination at all.
  577. 19:14Because it is not two colors.
  578. 19:16It is one color used in a way that most
  579. 19:19women have never tried.
  580. 19:20>> [music]
  581. 19:20>> Seven, one color in three textures, the
  582. 19:24most sophisticated combination of all.
  583. 19:27Every combination I have given you so
  584. 19:28far involves two or more colors working
  585. 19:31together. The final combination involves
  586. 19:33one.
  587. 19:34>> [music]
  588. 19:34>> And it is the combination that produces
  589. 19:36the most unmistakably expensive result
  590. 19:39of all seven because it requires the
  591. 19:41most color confidence to execute and the
  592. 19:43most wardrobe sophistication to
  593. 19:45assemble.
  594. 19:46I'm going to show you exactly how it
  595. 19:48works, but first, there is something you
  596. 19:50need to understand about why texture is
  597. 19:52doing the work that color usually does.
  598. 19:55The women I have observed at the most
  599. 19:57significant dinners and events I have
  600. 19:59attended, board dinners, gallery
  601. 20:01openings, private fundraisers in New
  602. 20:03York and in Europe, who were dressed
  603. 20:05most impeccably, were more often than I
  604. 20:07could count wearing a single color.
  605. 20:10Not tonal variation within a family,
  606. 20:13one color.
  607. 20:15But that color was appearing in a matte
  608. 20:16finish [music] in one piece, a slight
  609. 20:19sheen in another, and a heavier, more
  610. 20:21textural weave in a third.
  611. 20:22>> [music]
  612. 20:23>> The outfit had depth and visual movement
  613. 20:25without a second color in sight.
  614. 20:28I traced this approach consciously for
  615. 20:30the first time after a dinner I attended
  616. 20:32in Milan during a buying trip. A woman
  617. 20:34seated across from me was wearing what I
  618. 20:36can only describe as a study in ivory, a
  619. 20:39fine knit ivory roll neck, an ivory
  620. 20:42crepe wide-leg trouser, and an ivory
  621. 20:44wool blazer with a very slight boucle
  622. 20:46texture.
  623. 20:47The colors were virtually identical. The
  624. 20:50outfit was extraordinary. The variation
  625. 20:52was entirely in the surfaces, matte,
  626. 20:55fluid, and textured in sequence. In
  627. 20:58color theory, this is understood as
  628. 20:59monochromatic dressing taken to its
  629. 21:01highest expression. The eye,
  630. 21:04encountering a single hue in multiple
  631. 21:06textures, is given variation to travel
  632. 21:08across without the cognitive work of
  633. 21:10reconciling color contrasts.
  634. 21:12The result is an outfit that reads as
  635. 21:14entirely intentional, entirely
  636. 21:16considered, and entirely at ease because
  637. 21:19there is nothing competing for
  638. 21:20attention. Everything is in agreement.
  639. 21:23Resolve. Choose one color, ivory, camel,
  640. 21:26navy, stone, burgundy, and find it in
  641. 21:29three different textures within your
  642. 21:30wardrobe.
  643. 21:31>> [music]
  644. 21:32>> Matte for one piece, fluid or slightly
  645. 21:34sheen for another, heavier or more
  646. 21:36tactile for a third. The color must be
  647. 21:38close enough across all three that the
  648. 21:40variation reads as intentional rather
  649. 21:43than mismatched, which means shopping
  650. 21:45for this combination deliberately,
  651. 21:47>> [music]
  652. 21:47>> not assembling it from unrelated pieces.
  653. 21:50Here is the complete system of seven
  654. 21:52combinations.
  655. 21:54One is [music] tonal variation within a
  656. 21:56hue family. The foundational principle
  657. 21:58that distinguishes expensive dressing
  658. 22:00from matched dressing.
  659. 22:02Two is warm neutral paired with muted
  660. 22:04jewel. The timeless wealth signal that
  661. 22:06has operated across every culture
  662. 22:08[music] and every century of fashion
  663. 22:10history.
  664. 22:11Three is temperature matched metallic.
  665. 22:13The single adjustment that prevents your
  666. 22:15metallic from canceling everything else
  667. 22:17you've gotten right.
  668. 22:18Four is fully tonal dressing. One color
  669. 22:21family varied in depth, warmth, and
  670. 22:24texture producing the quiet authority
  671. 22:26that comes from demonstrated color
  672. 22:28literacy.
  673. 22:29Five is burgundy as anchor. The only
  674. 22:32bold color that reads as restraint.
  675. 22:35Paired with a warm neutral to produce
  676. 22:37the most accessible version of
  677. 22:38combination two.
  678. 22:40Six is navy or deep espresso replacing
  679. 22:42black near the face after 50. The
  680. 22:45physiologically correct dark anchor that
  681. 22:47works with skin rather than against it.
  682. 22:50And seven is one color in three
  683. 22:52textures. The most sophisticated
  684. 22:54combination of all, the one that
  685. 22:55requires the most knowledge to build and
  686. 22:57produces the most unmistakably elegant
  687. 22:59result.
  688. 23:01These are not trends. They are not
  689. 23:03seasonal.
  690. 23:04They are principles.
  691. 23:05The kind that were always understood in
  692. 23:07the rooms where dressing well was never
  693. 23:08discussed because it was simply done.
  694. 23:11The next step is the full blueprint. The
  695. 23:14Undeniables complete system. Seven
  696. 23:17[music] complete guides covering
  697. 23:18identity, presence, first impressions,
  698. 23:21social mastery,
  699. 23:23>> [music]
  700. 23:23>> wellness, standards, and your morning
  701. 23:25ritual. Everything the most elegant,
  702. 23:27vital, and undeniable version of you
  703. 23:29needs built into one system for less
  704. 23:32than a dinner out.
  705. 23:33>> [music]
  706. 23:33>> It is linked in the description. You
  707. 23:35came here for color combinations.
  708. 23:38What you are leaving [music] with is a
  709. 23:39complete color intelligence that will
  710. 23:41serve you in every room, every season,
  711. 23:43[music]
  712. 23:44for the rest of your life.
  713. 23:46I'll see you in the next one. Isabel.

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