Style Solutions: How to wear green the new colour trend for 2024

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 - Welcome to Style Solutions.

00:10 And today I'm joined as usual by Natalie Dixon.

00:13 Welcome Natalie.

00:15 - Thank you.

00:16 - Today we're gonna be talking about,

00:18 I hope you've guessed it everybody.

00:20 I hope it's obvious from what Natalie and I are wearing,

00:23 but just in case I need to give you a little bit of a nudge,

00:26 it's the color green.

00:29 And we're gonna be talking about how, well, let's start.

00:32 It is huge at the moment.

00:34 It was everywhere on the spring, summer 2024 catwalks,

00:39 in particular shades of pistachio and forest green.

00:44 And award season is in full swing.

00:47 And in case you didn't notice,

00:49 a certain Miss Taylor Swift

00:52 wore a stunning green Gucci dress to the Golden Globes.

00:56 And also Shailene Woodley wore Carolina Herrera

01:00 also in green to the Governor's Awards.

01:02 So Natalie, let's talk about Taylor, green, Gucci,

01:06 you go for it.

01:07 - Yeah, I loved the Taylor Swift dress actually.

01:12 Probably not one of my favorite shades of green,

01:15 but I did think that she looked stunning,

01:17 sort of giving it the old Hollywood style

01:19 with a bit of glitz, bit of glamor for the awards show

01:23 and just figure hugging.

01:26 I thought she looked amazing in it.

01:28 - Did you happen to see in Shailene Woodley,

01:33 her shade of green, the Carolina Herrera dress

01:36 that she wore to the Governor's Awards?

01:38 - Yeah, I thought it was quite brave,

01:40 a little bit more sort of brighter green.

01:43 But again, I think it just shows that green

01:45 is definitely the color of the season.

01:47 - And most definitely, and I would also say,

01:51 although it's fashionable in 2024,

01:54 a certain Royal, Catherine, Princess of Wales,

01:57 seems to be a fan of green for quite a while

02:01 because I don't know if you remember in 2021,

02:04 she wore a most, well, I thought it was beautiful,

02:07 a most beautiful Solace London dress

02:10 to the Earthshot Awards and it was sort of off the shoulder.

02:14 And since then, I think I have spotted her

02:16 in a couple of green dresses

02:17 and I think she looks phenomenal in the color.

02:21 - And I just wondered your thoughts on Kate,

02:24 Catherine and green. - Yeah, I love the dress.

02:27 I love the style of it and the strapless,

02:32 off the shoulder, sorry.

02:34 I thought it was really nice, bigger hugging shape.

02:38 And I love the fact as well that she wasn't afraid

02:41 to wear sort of like emerald diamonds as well

02:43 'cause a lot of the time you think,

02:45 oh, you don't wanna overdo it with the green,

02:47 but I thought that she carried it off really well.

02:51 - And just going back to the award show and the color green,

02:54 it's not a color, well, it's not a color

02:56 I normally associate with sort of awards,

02:59 but I think it's sort of a standout color

03:02 and I think it sort of makes people stop

03:06 and sort of comment on it.

03:07 I just wondered what you thought about green

03:09 at sort of red carpet awards ceremony.

03:12 - Yeah, I think a lot of the time you see

03:15 sort of a lot of people staying safe with black,

03:18 going for the power look with the red dresses

03:21 and even sort of, you know, in the Oscars,

03:23 you see a lot of gold.

03:25 But I think, yeah, you do sort of stop and look

03:28 when it comes to green because it's not such an obvious

03:31 or safe color to wear.

03:33 So I think that anybody that wears the color

03:36 does stand out a lot more.

03:38 - And it's also interesting that weddings,

03:42 the big trend for weddings this year is green.

03:45 And I've worked in wedding sort of magazines for many years

03:50 and green was a color that nobody ever contemplated

03:54 because green was considered unlucky for weddings.

03:56 And a lot of the time, brides didn't want to sort of

03:59 put their bridesmaids in green.

04:01 But I think we had a chat recently

04:03 and you mentioned green bridesmaids dresses.

04:05 Tell me about that.

04:07 - Yeah, when my sister-in-law got married in April,

04:11 she had all of her bridesmaids

04:13 in this really pale sage green color.

04:16 It's a really simple dress,

04:19 floor length and just, I think the color almost gave

04:23 like a sort of country feel to the wedding.

04:26 I think there was lots of white flowers,

04:29 which again, sometimes people try and stay away from,

04:32 but it just looked really elegant and really beautiful.

04:35 And again, it just shows that there's so many different

04:38 shades of green that everyone can kind of wear it.

04:42 - So let's move on and think about and discuss

04:47 how green could work for you,

04:50 because it's all very well talking about celebrities

04:53 and the catwalk, but you probably want to know,

04:58 I'm sure we talk about it all the time,

05:01 how green can work for you and whether a certain green

05:05 looks better on a brunette or a blonde.

05:07 So let's talk about Style Solutions Green

05:11 and how it works for you next.

05:13 (upbeat music)

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05:18 - So green and how it can work for you.

05:22 So as you can see, both Natalie and I

05:25 wearing different shades of green.

05:27 And as someone who is a brunette, I've always loved green,

05:32 but I tend to opt for sort of brighter shades of green

05:37 rather than sort of dark green.

05:41 Not that I don't like dark green,

05:43 but I think for somebody who's very pale and brunette,

05:48 I think sort of more vibrant shades of green work for me.

05:52 What are your views, Natalie, on this?

05:55 - So I kind of think that there is definitely

05:58 a shade of green for everyone.

06:01 I think I've got naturally pale skin

06:05 and I tend to do sort of go for more emerald greens.

06:09 I was born in May as well, so it's my birthstone emerald.

06:13 But I think that as long as you've got

06:16 a little bit of color in your cheeks,

06:17 then you could pretty much wear any shade of green.

06:20 But yeah, I think that it makes people

06:24 are a little bit afraid of it.

06:26 - And it's interesting when we think about

06:32 what color, the colors that you can team with green.

06:34 So obviously you're wearing black today with green,

06:37 which works perfectly.

06:42 I'm gonna be quite radical and I'm gonna say

06:45 that I think green can work with pink.

06:47 What are your views on that, Natalie?

06:48 - Yeah, actually, it's funny you say that

06:49 because I would automatically,

06:52 I know that a few years ago, again,

06:54 the blue and green were never to be seen together.

06:58 But looking at sort of like,

07:00 there's plenty of pictures out there now

07:01 that you could easily wear something emerald green

07:05 with a really bright blue color as well.

07:08 So I think the kind of the brights and the clashing

07:11 and the color blocking still work really well.

07:14 - But equally, I think if you are sort of

07:21 little bit of afraid of color

07:23 and the idea of wearing green with a bright pink

07:26 fills you with horror, which I do understand personally,

07:29 it doesn't fill me with horror.

07:30 I love bright colors and I love mixing and matching.

07:33 But I think if you wanna play it safe with green

07:36 and like to sort of have a more cautious approach,

07:39 green and black.

07:40 But I also think sort of a mint green

07:42 looks so lovely with white.

07:44 Again, going back to Catherine, Princess of Wales,

07:48 I'm sure I remember she wore sort of a pale green outfit

07:52 with white to Wimbledon,

07:54 which I think is the perfect place to wear it to.

07:56 What are your views on mint, sort of mint green with white?

08:02 I think that looks really fresh for spring/summer.

08:04 - I think that, yeah, kind of,

08:09 that dress in particular really sort of stood out

08:13 because it went beautifully with her hair.

08:15 But I think even if you had blonde hair,

08:18 you could still wear mint green and white.

08:20 I think those colors are just like, say, classic together.

08:23 But yeah, definitely can stay safe with black as well.

08:26 That's always gonna be easy to wear.

08:29 Yeah, I think, definitely try different things.

08:36 - And I think also, yeah, and I also think in sort of,

08:41 now that we're in sort of the midst of the deep winter,

08:45 when we're not probably thinking

08:46 of sort of mint spring/summer,

08:49 I think forest green is a really good green

08:51 to think about to wear in the winter.

08:54 And what made me think about this even more

08:57 is when I wrote a piece recently

08:58 about Claudia Winkerman on "The Traitors,"

09:01 she's wearing a lot of that sort of forest green,

09:04 which I think works really well on sort of

09:06 cable knit jumpers and dark green coats.

09:10 I think it sort of gives you...

09:12 And it sort of gives your winter wardrobe

09:18 a sort of different edge that perhaps sort of lifts it

09:21 from the sort of darks, sort of browns and grays and blacks.

09:25 So I think if you're thinking of sort of

09:27 wanting to sort of give your winter wardrobe a lift,

09:30 I'd say maybe investing in a green coat

09:33 would be the way forward. - Well, we seem to be

09:34 coming away now from everything seemed at one point

09:37 very beige, very gray, very sort of safe.

09:40 And I think you're right.

09:41 People are now looking more sort of

09:43 adding a little bit of color into their wardrobe.

09:46 So instead of having sort of, you know,

09:48 just adding a little bit of navy,

09:50 then green is definitely the way to go.

09:53 And I think even if people are still afraid

09:55 to actually wear it, you know, head to toe,

09:59 there's other ways to wear it as well,

10:01 like whether it's in your sort of accessories or jewelry.

10:04 Even, you know, I've got a green phone case

10:08 'cause I'm completely obsessed with the color.

10:10 Like anything I can is just green at the minute.

10:13 So there's definitely ways.

10:15 I think, yeah, at Christmas I even braved the green nails,

10:18 which years ago I would never do.

10:21 I would stick to nude always,

10:23 but it's just a little bit different.

10:25 - Yeah, I think we'll leave it there today.

10:31 I hope Natalie and I have convinced you to try green

10:34 and we will be talking about something interesting

10:39 next week, so do join us for the next Style Solutions.

10:42 - Thank you.

10:43 - Thank you.

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