How "Hot" Gemstone Jewelry Trends Are Created

How "Hot" Gemstone Jewelry Trends Are Created

Did you ever wonder how "hot" gemstone jewelry colors are determined for upcoming fashion seasons? Coinciding with New York fashion week, Pantone Color Institute releases a highly anticipated seasonal color report. This report is used by all types of designers from fashion to home dcor to graphics - as a definitive guide for fashionable color selections.

Pantone's Fall/Winter 2010 Report lists 10 warm to cool shades (pictured left) as the design palette for Fall and Winter fashion apparel. These trendy colors will be used in fashion accessories and ready-to-wear jewelry too.

For jewelry designers, the seasonal guide tells them what color and type of gemstones can best compliment fashion fabrics and textures. In ready-to-wear and production jewelry, classic best-selling designs are commonly updated to new color trends by simply changing out gemstones, based on color.

The forecasted Fall and Winter 2010 colors range from glowing fanta orange to elegant chocolate truffle. This broad and colorfully bright palette offers many opportunities for lesser known, yet very affordable gems to take center stage at retail jewelry counters this year.

Color guidelines provide an easy reference list to identify color-matching and color-contrasting loose gemstones such as shown below for Pantone's Top 10 Fall/Winter colors. Jewelry-grade gems are usually purchased at wholesale gem shows and from wholesale gemstone suppliers.

Color No 1 - Endive - is a bright yellow-green reminiscent of colors appearing in these stones:

Aragonite

Calcite

Crazy Lace Agate

Heliodore

Tourmaline (Yellow)

Turquoise (Yellow Green)

Jade (Yellow)

Lemon Chrysoprase

Color No 2 - Golden Glow instantly brings to mind the sparkling fanta orange of Spessartite Garnet as well as these orange-colored gems:

Flame Agate

Carnelian

Sunstone

Amber

Fire Opal

Hessonite Garnet

Montana Agate

Color No. 3 - Living Coral is a very short list unless one uses recycled dyed coral or a color-matched synthetic. Coral-tones appear naturally in the following:

Coral

Sardonyx

Poppy Jasper

Color No 4 - Lipstick Red - looks a lot like the brownish-red that is common to Mookite. Deepening reds can be found in these gemstones:

Carnelian

Garnet

Mahogany Obsidian

Red Jasper

Red Tiger Eye

Red Spinel

Color No 5 - Purple Orchid expresses the fine richness of dark Amethyst. Deep purples are also found in these stones:

Charoite

Fluorite

Lepidolite

Purple Aventurine

Spinel

Sugilite

Color No 6 - Chocolate Truffle provides interesting color and texture choices in this selection of gemstones:

Black Lip Oyster Shell

Amphibolite

Black Moonstone

Black Obsidian

Black Tourmaline

Bulls Eye Agate

Jet

Lava

Lodestone

Onyx

Snowflake Obsidian

Tektite

Color No 7 - Lagoon is a continuation of the aquatic theme that made Turquoise a summer season favorite. Fall and Winter teal colored gems include:

Amazonite

Apatite

Chrysocolla

Turquoise

Chrysocolla

Color No 8 Woodbine is a deep forest green is a gentle reminder of the pure greens found in Moss Agate. Woodland green colors can be found in these stones:

African Jade

Bloodstone

Chrome Diopside

Green Garnet

Green Tourmaline

Jade

Malachite

Nevada Lapis

Prehnite

Rhyolite (Rainforest Jasper)

Ruby Zoisite

Serpentine

Tree Agate

Vesuvianite

Color No 9 - Oyster Gray is that lovely silver patina found in fine quality Chrysoberyl Cats Eye. Other gray-to-silver colored gems include:

Banded Agate

Hawks Eye

Tourmilated Quartz

Picasso Jasper

Soapstone

Silver Leaf Jasper

Silver Moonstone

Silver Topaz

Turitella

Zebra Jasper

Color No 10 - Rose Dust is mindful of the opaque pink found in Rhodochrosite or the dull pink tone found in poor quality peach moonstone. Pink colored gemstones for possible color matching include:

Dolomite

Mabe Pearl

Spinel

Rhodonite

Kunzite

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