How did we “find” colour, which shades have we lost, and how did synthetic dyes change it all? “I realised then that the answer to the fashion industry’s colour problem wasn’t going to be engineered bacterial that could poop out colour, at least not on its own,” MacDonald says, “It was going to be about changing behaviours, tightening up practices …
NEW YORK — “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it,” Shug tells Celie in Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple.” In nature, among the priestly and royal, as a symbol of independence, pride and magic, purple is weighty in history and culture. Now, with the Christmas Day …
