2003 collection

Held in the garden of Betsey Johnson's East Hampton home that surrounded by all kinds of flowers, Johnson used plenty of floral patterns and cabbage roses in her "infectious enthusiasm" show. Achromatic color scheme was not used a lot but not for Monochromatic color scheme which was applied to develop the color combination pretty much. For those cabbage roses that decorated the cloths well were developed by triad color scheme. Complementary color scheme was used as well to show a strong color contrast.

Color used: High chroma and high value

Achromatic color scheme



Monochromatic color scheme

(Different value and chroma of same hue)

Triad color scheme(Applied mainly for decorative parts)

(Blue, yellow and red equidistant from each other on the color wheel)

Complementary color scheme

Betsey Johnson showed a kaleidoscopic collection to the fall/winter of 2003. Just like a colorful kaleidoscope, chroma of hues applied in this collection were a little bit higher than them of spring collection's. Achromatic color scheme was used again. For monochromatic color scheme, Johnson used only one color for whole pieces and also different value and chroma of same hue to develop the color combination. A strong color contrast was presented by using complementary color scheme while cloths developed by analogous color scheme made people's eyes more comfortable.

Color used: High chroma and constant value

Achromatic color scheme

Monochromatic color scheme

(Different value and chroma of same hue)

Complementary color scheme

Analogous color scheme

(Yellow and orange are next to each other on a color wheel)

(Green and Yellow green are next to each other on a color wheel)

Look back for the whole year's cloths, the proportion Johnson chose when combine the color was more or less equal to each other if there were more than one color used for each showing pieces.