2024 Color of the Year: Goodbye to Barbie Pink & Hello to Peach Fuzz
It’s 2024 and time to say goodbye to Barbie pink and hello to peach fuzz! This color has more warmth than pink, so it is more inviting. It’s also easier to style in monochromatic looks. The Pantone Institute of Color marks their 25th anniversary of this annual program with their announcement of the 2024 Color of the Year.
This post describes:
- Peach Fuzz and its alternatives,
- the reasons behind choosing this particular color at this time,
- its meaning globally and personally,
- the warm qualities of this color choice and
- how to use it in apparel and accessories through textures and color combinations.
So let’s take a closer look at Peach Fuzz: its depth of meaning, feelings it evokes and ways to wear it!
What Is Peach Fuzz and Why Is It the Color of the Year for 2024?
This looks like a peachy pink to me. But if it isn’t your most flattering color, you are not limited to this specific hue. You can stretch this to be any shade of peach you like, going from salmon to blush. Choose the shade that looks best on you. As always, show your true self to true advantage!
According to the Pantone Institute, Peach Fuzz is an appealing peach hue softly nestled between pink and orange that inspires belonging, recalibration, and an opportunity for nurturing, conjuring up an air of calm, offering us a space to be, feel, heal and flourish. Drawing comfort from Peach Fuzz, we can find peace from within, impacting our wellbeing. So it ought to be a joy to wear!
The Pantone Color Institute chooses the color for each year based on the pervasive mood of the times. Peach Fuzz captures our desire to nurture ourselves and others, symbolizing compassion and connection.
Sharing Kindness
Peach Fuzz is a heartfelt peach hue bringing a feeling of kindness and tenderness, communicating a message of caring and sharing, community and collaboration. A warm and cozy shade highlighting our desire for togetherness with others or for enjoying a moment of stillness and the feeling of sanctuary this creates, Pantone Peach Fuzz presents a fresh approach to a new softness.
“In seeking a hue that echoes our innate yearning for closeness and connection, we chose a color radiant with warmth and modern elegance. A shade that resonates with compassion, offers a tactile embrace, and effortlessly bridges the youthful with the timeless.” – Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director, Pantone Color Institute
Embrace the Warmth
Because of its warmth, peach is good for cozy sweaters, knit wear and hygge style. For inspiration, see my post “It’s Always a Good Time to Explore Hygge Style”.
An idea as much as a feeling, Peach Fuzz awakens our senses to the comforting presence of tactility and cocooned warmth. Sensitive but sweet and airy, Pantone Peach Fuzz evokes a new modernity.
How to Use Peach Fuzz in Apparel and Accessories
Peach pink is a romantic color. It helps you to feel warm and inviting. Wear it when you want to feel feminine, pretty and sexy.
For that reason, wear this color as lingerie, a cocktail dress, lipstick, a scarf.
Romantic colors are about appearing warm and approachable more than sexy. Since peach is warm, energizing and friendly, that’s exactly how you will be seen…whether out with friends or on a date.
Peach Fuzz is a nurturing peach tone that inspires us to instinctively want to reach out and touch. Conveying a message of tactility that comes through in sueded, velvety, quilted, and furry textures, luxuriously soothing and soft to the touch, Peach Fuzz is an enveloping peach hue that awakens our senses to the comforting presence of tactility and cocooned warmth.
This winter, peach fuzz-inspired textures like fleece, suede, and corduroy work their way into our wardrobes to bring comfort and cheer to cold, gray weather.
How to Use the Color of the Year With Other Colors
Peach goes well with blue, turquoise, teal, blue greens, sage green, orange, coral, pinks, burgundy, grey, olive, bronze, tan, camel, brown…
Pair muted orange and salmon pink tones with everything from neutrals like cream and tan to saturated shades of lavender, teal, berry, and mint green. By using the full range of peach tones, it can be worn with far more than you’d expect.
I love this shirt but they don’t ship to the United States! If you are able to order this, snap it up. Lol
Women love kimonos because they are an easy and beautiful way to dress up and cover up. For outfit ideas with kimonos, see my post: “Here Are Over 45 Sure-Fire Ways to Rock a Kimono!”
Are you going to wear a shade of peach this year? Do you sense the tenderness, warmth and approachability when you see this color on someone? Please share your thoughts! Leave a reply below.
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You’ve found some fantastic pieces! Peach used to be a very good color for me but less so now because my coloring has changed. I still like it and wear it with my better colors. Thanks for linking.
Thanks for the tip on mixing peach with your best colors to make it more useful and play it up to best advantage!
How funny because everything is in the eye of the beholder! I had been thinking that the Pantone color of ’24 isn’t a peachy pink, but apricot with no pink in it. Well, whatever! I love it. In fact, all of the peaches including peachy pink have my name on them. I love ’em! The Peach Fuzz wool-cashmere V-neck sweater is especially gorgeous and with that white ruffled blouse, it’s divine!
You’ll find all shades of peach in the stores this year. It’s a great time to add more of this beautiful color to your wardrobe. Enjoy!