Can we just set something straight?  I am the kind of person who never, ever wears brown.  EVER. 

It just seems wrong.  Brown is not a color that generally stands out in a crowd.  There are many colors with which it really doesn’t match.  Black is sharper, stronger, darker, edgier,  and goes with just about everything, so why on earth would I bother with brown - the one color that black doesn’t look good with?

But come this fall, I might just have to concede that I am wrong, and the time has come to put away the black and white and break out the brown.  Fall’s clothes, particularly in Milan, are a little bohemian and a little earthy, and just about every designer, notably the always forward-thinking Prada, above, has been putting the shade and its more wearable cousin, beige, on their runway:

Alessandro Dell’Acqua:

Marni:

Fendi:

Some timely looks by Nicole Miller and Isaac Mizrahi:

 

The use of such interesting fabrics, cuts, and color combinations might just persuade me.  So I have to ask: are you the kind of girl who wears black or brown?  And if like me, you’re pretty opposed to the whole idea, do you think fall’s excellent offerings will make you change your mind?

Posted on February 21st, 2008 by ashley