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  Color Courage

  Are you afraid of color?

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  Joyful fashion: Viktor & Rolf’s Picasso-inspired SS16 Couture

  One of the most striking features of humanity is our propensity for turning necessities into pleasures. From our need for shelter, we’ve created wildly divergent styles of architecture.

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  Joyful fashion: Chinami Mori’s colorful weavings, and her model-grandmother

  Japanese artist Chinami Mori weaves vibrantly colored and textured scarves using a technique called Saori, which eschews rigid rules, allowing the weaver to incorporate colored yarn, string, and fabric in a freeform way.

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  Vibrant Vlisco

  This is about the part of winter where I’m just over it, and yet I realize that we’re still hardly even halfway through.

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  Secret joys: colorful socks

  Socks are a secret way to be joyful, even (especially!) in serious situations. No one has to know that inside your shoes are rainbow stripes, or polka dots, or a pair of owls on ice-skates.

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  Dior’s joyful abundance

  Have you seen the madness that is the installation created for the Dior 2012 AW haute couture show? These photos leave me a bit breathless.