On Thursday, October 24 at 7:30 pm, Penny Rosenthal will present Color Story: A Visual Examination of How Our Color-Saturated Culture Influences Color Forecasting in the Fashion Industry. To forecast color direction, forecasters must constantly participate in the events that shape the cultural moment. By synthesizing the mood of the times from all the diverse elements of culture, including economic, political, and environmental conditions, fine arts, performing arts, cosmetics, fashion design, interior design and industrial design, they are able to track trends and recognize new directions. This presentation will explore this process as well as explain the language of color, color symbols and names, and color cycles. Penny Rosenthal holds an undergraduate degree in fashion design and a master’s degree in art history from Indiana University. For the past 15 years she has taught fashion and costume history, fashion merchandising, textile science and art history at the university level. Tickets are $5; available at the Healdsburg Center for the Arts.
