Black is(not) always IN

It used to symbolize power and a certain social status during the late medieval period (XII, XIV ct). In that period of time, processes used for colour making were highly expensive and complicated. Besides red, purple and deep midnight blue, black used to be one of the mostly appreciated colour among nobilities. By the time, class differences became more flexible and newly rich ones who came from the lower civil layers of society could afford themselves dark coloured textiles, and all thanks to merchendisers whome mannaged to make a huge competition between black one and royal blue ones. In XV century, Italian Royal family brought out the law by which weraing dark colours get officialy regulated so the new internal gap between even higher class layers started to be created. Therefore according to that law the use of black as struictly reserved for aristocacy has been regulated.

Black colour was oftenly called the queen of all colours althoug it relly isn’t a color. A paradox or the blidness of merging styles and tendencies, time will show. It gor under many interpretation, it was adored by numerous designers suppporting different syle expressions and that is exactly where its power lays, in timelessnes and contraversy.

Photo credit Miloš Krecković

Model @apelicsaska

Dress Mima Madzarac