This document outlines five color palettes for men's fashion trends for Spring/Summer 2014: Midnight Butterfly, Dusty Desert Summer, Glow in the Dark, Silver Moon, and Good Night. Each palette includes 3-5 colors with descriptions and examples of brands that featured those colors on their runways. The palettes range from bright colors like hot pink and radioactive green to more muted tones like terra cotta and midnight blue. The document provides a high-level overview of the top color trends for the season through brief descriptions and accompanying brand photos.

1. Colorful Nights
Men’s Fashion Color Trends
Spring/Summer 2014
By Tiffany Hodges
hodges_tiffany@hotmail.com

2. Men’s Fashion Color Palettes
Spring/Summer 2014
•Midnight Butterfly
•Dusty Desert Summer
•Glow in the Dark
•Silver Moon

3. Midnight Butterfly
Grass
Hot Pink
Firefly
True Blue
Midnight
Mood
A celebration of the new clarity and
brightness that the warmth of spring and
summer bring.
•The sizzle of HOT PINK heats up the mood
and brings an excitement to this color palette.
•Against a MIDNIGHT black background,
FIREFLY illuminates the color story with its
natural brightness.
•GRASS has an invigorating freshness to it,
and helps tie the color story back to nature.
•Often worn with MIDNIGHT, TRUE BLUE’s
masculine touch compliments the other colors
in the palette.

4. Midnight Butterfly

5. Grass
Burberry
Lou Dalton
Salvatore
Ferragamo
Ralph Lauren

6. Hot Pink
Paul Smith
Raf Simons
Saint
Laurent
Lanvin
Kenzo

7. Firefly
Ann Demeulemeester
Maison Martin Margiela
Ralph Lauren
DKNY
Christopher
Kane
John Galliano

8. True Blue
Agi & Sam
APC
John Galliano
Versace
Raf Simons

9. Midnight
Hood By Air
Costume National
Billy Reid
Alexander Wang

10. Dusty Desert Summer
Maroon
Golden Rod
Terra Cotta
Dark Cactus
Eggplant
Mood
An autumn-like palette that appeared frequently during Men’s Fashion
Week, Spring/Summer 2014 presentation.
•GOLDEN ROD is the hazy yellow that adds warmth to the color story.
•TERRA COTTA has the appearance of red clay baked in the summer
sun, and serves as a neutral color for the season.
•DARK CACTUS, the plant that can withstand even the warmest, driest
and dustiest of environments, breathes life into the color palette.
•EGGPLANT is a dark, almost brown version of purple, and was often
paired with lavender on the runways.
•MAROON, sometimes looking brown, other times looking more red,
makes the color story more dynamic.

11. Dusty Desert Summer

12. Maroon
Prada
Berluti
Vivienne
Westwood
Versace
Paul Smith

13. Golden Rod
Raf Simons
Versace
Gucci
Alexis Mabille
Orley
Billy Reid

14. Terra Cotta
Prada
Orley
Trussardi
Vivienne
Westwood
Gucci

15. Dark Cactus
Raf Simons
Kolor
Kris Van Assche

16. Eggplant
Dior Homme
Raf Simons
Ports 1961
Andrea
Pompillio

17. Glow in the Dark
Red Light
Summer Blush
Radioactive
Blue Light
Spring Blush
Mood
A zany combination of colors that may seem
counter-intuitive...until you see them together in
action!
•RED LIGHT, a vibrant pop of red.
•SUMMER BLUSH, a more subdued dark peach
color.
•Chartreuse returns to the “limelight” in the form
of RADIOACTIVE.
•BLUE LIGHT grounds the palette, and provides a
handsome hue against which the other colors
“glow”. It seems to “glow” itself when paired
against black.
•Often paired with shades of brown, SPRING
BLUSH is a color that subtly made its way into
the Spring/Summer 2014 runway.

18. Glow in the Dark

19. Red Light
DKNY
Christopher
Kane
Bally
Paul & Joe
Burberry
Prorsum
3.1
Phillip Lim

20. Summer Blush
Paul Smith
Gucci
Jil Sander
Richard James

21. Radioactive
McQ Alexander
McQueen
Jonathan Saunders
Tom Ford
Haider Ackermann

22. Blue Light
Moschino
Agi & Sam
Calvin Klein
Versace

23. Spring Blush
Giorgio Armani
MAN
Giorgio Armani
Marc Jacobs

24. Silver Moon
Metallics
Shaun
Samson
Acne
Studios
Saint
Laurent
Moschino
Opening
Ceremony
Saint
Laurent
Topman
Design
Acne
Studios

25. Good Night
Men’s Fashion Color Trends
Spring/Summer 2014
By Tiffany Hodges
hodges_tiffany@hotmail.com
**Fashion images from Style.com**