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color authority pantone, which provides professional color standards for the design industries, published their fashion color report for fall 2011.

the color report coincides with new york fashion week, which runs from february 10-17, 2011.

pantone women's fashion colors for fall 2011

photo by pantone

pantone men's fashion colors for fall 2011

photo by pantone

of course, honeysuckle pink, the pantone color of the year for 2011, is one of the women's fall fashion colors.

notice how the other fall fashion colors mirror the color trends from design san francisco 2011?

kravet showroom | design san francisco 2011

photo by innerspace

'designers take a painterly approach to fall 2011

by artfully combining bright colors with staple neutrals...'

leatrice eiseman, executive director of the pantone color institute®

hmmm, i think 'i've heard that song before'...

click here to read more about how interior designers use bright colors to accent neutral color schemes...

do you prefer colors or neutrals?

you may have already heard that honeysuckle pink is the panetone color of the year for 2011.

pantone | honeysuckle pink | 18-2120 TCX

photo by pantone

pink cover of interior design magazine | january 2011

dining room | new york, NY | steven harris architects and rees roberts + partners

click here to read the article

photo by innerspace

but, i have to agree with new york interior designer heather clawson, habitually chic blogger extraordinaire, who still thinks that 'green is good'!

green cover of veranda magazine | november/december 2010

entry | houston, TX | miles redd

photo by girl learning along the way blog

any way that you look at it, you could say that things are 'all bright now'!

'all bright now' cover of the financial times newspaper's how to spend it magazine | february 5, 2011

photo by innerspace

and, design san francisco 2011 was no exception.

bright new colorways of oh so practical solution dyed acrylic outdoor fabrics by perennials will debut at the shears & window showroom in march 2011. look for plushy solution dyed acrylic velvet in eleven new colorways, and rough & rowdy solution dyed acrylic linen in thirteen new colorways.

perennials | plushy solution dyed acrylic velvet

perennials | rough & rowdy solution dyed acrylic linen

photos by innerspace

at the mcguire furniture showroom, peking glass vessels by robert kuo, in bright, tropical colors, accent 'natural magic', a mixed media work on canvas by artist joan elan davis.

peking glass vessels by robert kuo | mcguire furniture

photo by innerspace

and, at the kravet showroom, shelves and shelves of brightly colored transparent glass vessels accent rooms furnished in magenta or teal.

transparent glass vessels | kravet

photo by innerspace

according to her february 5-6, 2011 wall street journal column, 'living well', new york decorator and journalist rita konig is also 'in the mood for...pops of bright color'.

holly hunt seems to be in the mood for pops of bright color, too. for her trend setting studio h collection, represented by the kneedler|fauchere showroom, hunt introduced a collection of tinted lens tables with mirrored acrylic resin tops by london furniture designers bryan mccollin.

emerald green, amethyst purple, lemon yellow, mandarin orange, rose red...