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Basic rules for color-blocking are centered on the colour theory.

However, other experts argue whether his artwork is the true origin of color-blocking.

Her take on color-blocking was a wide-flaring dress in nine colors.

Color-blocking has recently spilled over into home décor and interior design.

Fashion icons, designers, and figures have developed rules that go along with the art of color-blocking.

It is also considered color-blocking even if the colors are not direct opposites on the color wheel.

Color-blocking is a great trend for many reasons.

Color-blocking provides versatility to clothing that other trends and styles simply don't provide.

In the home color-blocking is used mainly in room décor and walls.

A little color-blocking never hurt a girl.

In the fashion world, the process of color-blocking is what it sounds like, wearing blocks of colors.

Charming Charlie’s snakeskin clutches play off one of spring’s hottest trend: color-blocking.

As for today color-blocking is more frequently seen in the home as a latest thing in interior design.

Traditional color-blocking consists of putting together two or three different, but complementary colors together in one outfit.

Motley clothes, from patchwork prints to color-blocking, are resurfacing on many levels of the fashion world.

Many of the styles this season incorporate some form of color-blocking and mixing of patterns.

Color-blocking is different than how people usually dress because the colors in the outfit are considered louder, or colors that clash.

Color-blocking the furs also felt more opulent.

Stripes, color-blocking and crossword-puzzle checks ruled the clothes.

Since color-blocking is an abstract form of art, it's easy to create illusions for accentuating body shapes, making people look taller and thinner.

NBC's raven-haired"Today" co-anchor has recently been trying out fashion's big color-blocking trend.

However, the collection's time-dial was jolted towards the end to the 1980s and 90s with color-blocking and some garish shattered-glass effect pants.

I loved the slouchy sweater dresses with color-blocking around the shoulders and sleeves, an oversized, hand-knitted pullover that is slightly longer in the back.

Ideas for layering, color-blocking, high-low mix, and cool new accessories came down the runway fast and - well, Marni doesn't do furious.

As the spring previews are nearing their midpoint, dainty dresses, pleat and pintuck details and color-blocking were emerging as trends.

By the 1970s, Richter had abandoned his colour-blocking for a different sort of multi-coloured abstract art.

Say goodbye to neon brights and colour-blocking, as next season you’ll be seeing your wardrobe in black and white.

Sure, it's got a rather witchy-looking pointed collar and is working a subtle baby blue and white colour-blocking scheme.

Blush tones, colour-blocking and navy blue emerged as the key trends of the stylish guests at the royal wedding.

Colour-blocking isn't just for clothes; it can work with eyewear, too, with the pretty peach and purple of these frames.

Should I wear colour-blocking this year?'

There are two main pink trends right now: romantic nudes and bright, fizzy colour-blocking, each with its own important and esoteric rules.

Striking graphics and bold colour-blocking characterise the family of products, as do refined detailing and a more streamlined aesthetic.

This work shows an influence from Paul Henry and French Impressionism in Davidson's use of colour-blocking.

It's a simple enough idea: a lovely, fresh, muscular, unfarmed bit of fish, in a beetroot cure that borrows from fashion the attractions of colour-blocking.

They founded Vicious Velo, a club with an eye-assaulting strip in a riot of jagged colour-blocking and jumbled typefaces.

Rosewood and brass are as common as powder-coating and colour-blocking in this collection, in which age-old objects have been given contemporary facelifts.

Belgian design practice Labt offered a playful take on colour-blocking with its 'Nordic Spruce Box' '

If off-court fashion has seen colour-blocking become a major trend in the last few years, tennis is the unexpected home of the latest twist in the trend - micro-colour blocking.

Best in show: Green's tailoring was as powerful as his raspberry and moss green colour-blocking, while his use of neoprene on short-waisted jackets offered an inspired update of the leather bomber.

NARS x Christopher Kane Neonneutral Colour-blocking is over with Nars' most recent collaboration - Neonneutral by Christopher Kane.

Colour-blocking, peplums, some bird-of-paradise feather dresses and even the revival of Burberry's signature check on the panels of metallic-trimmed handbags were other notable features in this remorselessly slick, visually overwhelming show.

The Shanghai-based interior firm Design MVW took its cues from ancient Chinese craftsmanship, bringing Chinoiserie into the present with bold colour-blocking, hand-painted wallpapers and towering wrought-iron panelling.

Take, for example, her use of bright colour: to those of her generation and younger who know (or care) what colour-blocking is, she looks bang on-trend, while traditional conservative voters just think she looks like a jolly good sport.

Casual summer suits were cut in comfortable proportions of crumpled cotton and bright linens, whilst utility jackets were layered together for a stylistic effect of painterly colour-blocking, pushed into dandy territories by a series of shadowy floral prints.

There are plenty of Abby's favoured trench coats on the shop floor, but I think colour-blocking - as seen on the catwalks of Richard Nicoll, Ossie Clark and others - is going to be the way I go.

Traditional Japanese design - from architecture, graphical prints like colour-blocking and, for example, the basic shape of a kimono.

Even Victoria Beckham's line (for whom Mouret works as a consultant), whose spring/summer 2010 collection was unveiled in New York last week, owes something to minimalism with its pin tucks and colour-blocking.

The Autumn/winter palette in Milan was full of loud, arresting shades, continuing a trend for colour-blocking that has been on and off the runways for the past five years.