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Maggie Nelson\u2019s Bluets <\/em>(2009), a train of thought about just one colour in numbered sections, starts, \u201c1. Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a colour\u201d, and goes on to explore blues, the blues, blueness, blue things and herself. Anne Carson\u2019s Autobiography of Red<\/em> (1998), on the other hand, follows a red-winged monster named Geryon and starts, \u201cHe came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.\u201d In each colour, though, we see in unity, the guardrails humans have created in order to name colours, a watery depth, an arbitrary assignation (why is sadness blue, anger red?), and the isolation of tone from meaning.<\/p>\n

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1. The word black has meant so many things, just like the colour has, and the clothes. In much of the world, black has historically represented death and uniform \u2013 a pious class.<\/p>\n

2. Back when wealth was best represented by materials, brighter, cleaner hues easily informed their fineness, whereas black could hide anything. Eventually, though, high fashion became a new kind of elitism, and black was prioritised. The innovation of haute couture was explained with a garment\u2019s structure more than its make-up, and to the human eye, black is best for seeing silhouettes.<\/p>\n

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3. In small cities, black is a scary colour to wear, a sign of outside interests. Visiting large cities like New York or Chicago or Berlin, one is struck by the amount of black everyone wears: professionals, writers, tech people, designers, security guards, waiters, even children. (Back home, maybe the only people who wear monochrome black are hairdressers.)<\/p>\n

4. Something about having to move around this big set in all black makes sense: stage-hands wear black so they can disappear behind scenery, unlike the actors, vying for attention. The goal is to look like one is part of this place, integral to the show.<\/p>\n

5 .\u201cVenice,\u201d as Peter Ackroyd writes in Venice: Pure City<\/em>, is \u201cnot so much a city but a representation of a city\u201d, an \u201cendless drama\u201d. In 17th-century Venice, black clothing was \u201ca costume with which to express uniformity … the colour of gravity. Black was the colour of anonymity. Black also held elements of intimidation. It represented death and justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

6. There is blackness and there is blackness and there is blackness, but we are focused for the moment on this season\u2019s BBD (\u2018big black dress\u2019) that comes in all volumes: graduation gown, layered \u2018Goth Lolita\u2019, corseted period piece, mouse-ear-topped t-shirt dress or shapeless shift-in-felted-something.<\/p>\n

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7. Saying anything is the new black is de\u0301classe\u0301 now, an empty adage because it never worked \u2013 nothing ever replaced black as black, even when black was the new black, meaning something racial, and then something not racial, ad infinitum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":81117,"id":81117,"title":"image-5","filename":"image-5.png","filesize":149095,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-5.png","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/history-colour-black-natasha-stagg\/image-5-3\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Black Square, c.1923, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia","name":"image-5-3","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":81112,"date":"2019-10-28 16:48:31","modified":"2019-10-28 16:56:50","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":591,"height":600,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-5.png","thumbnail-width":95,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-5.png","medium-width":591,"medium-height":600,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-5.png","medium_large-width":591,"medium_large-height":600,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-5.png","large-width":591,"large-height":600,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-5.png","1536x1536-width":591,"1536x1536-height":600,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-5.png","2048x2048-width":591,"2048x2048-height":600,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-5.png","trp-custom-language-flag-width":12,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-5.png","wpvr_mobile-width":591,"wpvr_mobile-height":600}},{"ID":81119,"id":81119,"title":"image-7","filename":"image-7.png","filesize":705094,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-7.png","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/history-colour-black-natasha-stagg\/image-7-2\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"image-7-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":81112,"date":"2019-10-28 16:55:48","modified":"2019-10-28 16:55:48","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":628,"height":900,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-7.png","thumbnail-width":67,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-7.png","medium-width":628,"medium-height":900,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-7.png","medium_large-width":628,"medium_large-height":900,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-7.png","large-width":628,"large-height":900,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-7.png","1536x1536-width":628,"1536x1536-height":900,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-7.png","2048x2048-width":628,"2048x2048-height":900,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-7.png","trp-custom-language-flag-width":8,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-7.png","wpvr_mobile-width":628,"wpvr_mobile-height":900}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

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8. At some point, each subculture owned black: bikers wore black leather, gallerists wore black linen, the upper crust had black tie events, single women claimed the little black dress. But because it is everything, it is nothing, and so reclaiming black as subcultural today feels almost satirical, an echo of naivete\u0301.<\/p>\n

9. Even when Morrissey (not known for wearing black) sang, \u201cI wear black on the outside because black is the way I feel on the inside\u201d, he was mimicking a type of melodrama, and when Lana Del Rey (also not known for wearing black) later sang, \u201cI paint the house black, my wedding dress black leather, too\u201d, she was pandering to a depressive, hoping to point out the absurdity of her song\u2019s subject\u2019s lifestyle. The Rolling Stones\u2019 ‘Paint It Black’ is sped up and slightly hysterical; its lyrics feel distant from Mick Jagger (never one to exclusively wear black, either) as if he is quoting someone.<\/p>\n

10. It is imbued with more meaning than the others, but it is still a tone, a nameable one, with varying depths and warmths: black denim is washed. Black iron absorbs. An oil spill is iridescent. A tattoo fades to green.<\/p>\n

11. The English word \u2018black\u2019 sometimes means evil: death\u2019s cloak, a bad witch\u2019s cape, a bad luck cat, immoral magic, a plague, the darkest humour, the great beyond, the deep unknown. But black is a symbol of simplification, too. Black and white means an easy binary, a heightening of contrast, a yes or no answer.<\/p>\n

12. When we say \u201cblack people\u201d \u2013 a fraught construct \u2013 we refer to a giant spectrum of origins, ethnic descents, and experiences, which is de ned differently in different countries, eras, communities and contexts.<\/p>\n

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13. Black is at once all colour combined and the absence of all colour: the most and the least. A \u2018blackout\u2019 means the lack of something (power, light, memory) and a \u2018black eye\u2019 means a bruise that looks like a rainbow trout.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":81118,"id":81118,"title":"image-6","filename":"image-6.png","filesize":122103,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-6.png","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/history-colour-black-natasha-stagg\/image-6-2\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"image-6-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":81112,"date":"2019-10-28 16:48:55","modified":"2019-10-28 16:48:55","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1200,"height":800,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-6.png","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-6.png","medium-width":1200,"medium-height":800,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-6.png","medium_large-width":1200,"medium_large-height":800,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-6.png","large-width":1200,"large-height":800,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-6.png","1536x1536-width":1200,"1536x1536-height":800,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-6.png","2048x2048-width":1200,"2048x2048-height":800,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-6.png","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-6.png","wpvr_mobile-width":1200,"wpvr_mobile-height":800}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"10","caption":"Black hole. Courtesy of Event Horizon. "}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

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14. A travelling exhibition of Cristo\u0301bal Balenciaga\u2019s black dresses, Balenciaga, l\u2019oeuvre au noir was recently curated to show the designer\u2019s capacity for impressive construction by directing the focus away from his wild colour choices.<\/p>\n

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15. Looking at the Fall\/Winter 2019 runway shows, black palettes look particularly dark, as in nightmarish: Prada\u2019s Anatomy of Romance collection, Balenciaga\u2019s Asphalt showspace, Bottega Veneta\u2019s quilted leather, Comme des Garc\u0327ons\u2019s all-black poofs, and Rick Owens\u2019 models\u2019 blackout contacts look more creepy than formal, answering the Anthropocene with supernatural villains.<\/p>\n

16. Vampires \u2013 because they are nocturnal and elusive, or because they turn into bats, or because they were first seen in black-and-white movies\u2014wear black, and therefore black is a goth colour, the gothest colour.<\/p>\n

17. For all of its cultural cache, its darkness and metaphorical darkness, its \u2018absence of\u2019, its ability to stand in for the whole as a hole \u2013 as in Malevich\u2019s Black Square, viewed as the ultimate conclusion to a breaking down of visual codes that went from Cubism to Abstract Expressionism to primary-coloured grids and then the shape of a painting in pure black, framed by white and the white of a gallery \u2013 black is an intellectual colour but it is also, in every sense of the word, the most basic.<\/p>\n

18.\u00a0 When black is not standard, the cover of a notebook, it is dramatic, the colour of wrongness, a reversal. As Anne Carson writes in “Totality: The Colour of Eclipse”: \u201cThe sun quits us, we are forsaken by light. Yet people who experience total eclipse are moved to such strong descriptions of its vacancy and void that this itself begins to take on colour. What after all is a colour? Something not no colour.\u201d<\/p>\n

19. Black is a mask for high-octane emotion. It is the veil worn over tears at a funeral, the ski hat worn by a thief, the top hat tipped by the master of ceremonies. Black is a turned-off screen, the end of a movie, a relief for eyes sensitive to light, a cool cover after hours of daytime strain.<\/p>\n

20. It is the colour of vacancy and no vacancies, the expression of infinity and of nothingness. When speckled with white stars, or ribbed with the reddish caves of bodily interiors, or dappled with the blue reflection of the sky that can survive the pressures of watery depths, a black eld looks beyond our existence.<\/p>\n

21. Style advice: imagine the staying power of black shoes and undergarments. Imagine blackness, true blackness, the expanse and depth of it, if you can, if it is possible, and layer it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

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