Color

* I once asked a fashion designer what influences the choice of colors in new creations. I never forgot her statement that, among other factors, an exhibit of a famous artist will spark his color application in the fashion industry that season. Yet the strengthless pastels, asphalt greys and deadly blacks seem to dominate the spring scenes. Where have all Van Gogh’s vibrant colors gone? Why not wear the energetic greens, blues and golds he applied in many paintings? It would make us look alive.

MARGARET SYRE

Sherman Oaks