A new generation has found a high-tech way to embrace a fashion rule that first boomed in popularity in the 1980s—color analysis. For decades, trained consultants have worked with clients to help them ...

Have you ever tried on an item of clothing and immediately put it in the "no" pile, but couldn't quite figure out why. Well, its color might be to blame. Color and style consultant Julia Dobkine, aka ...

"Winter, spring, summer or fall," go the lyrics to the Carole King classic "You’ve Got a Friend." These days, that’s also valuable fashion advice. Thanks to social media, notably TikTok and Instagram, ...

LOS ANGELES − "Do you see the difference?" I'm sitting in a chair looking at myself in a mirror. Over my gray apron, Brenda Cooper − a stylist, author and professional color analyst − drapes two ...

If you're wondering how to find the best lipstick for your skin tone—and dreading the process of trying dozens of options to figure it out—I have great news. There is a much better way to identify ...

A while back, I used an app to figure out if I was a deep winter, cool summer, clear spring, or warm autumn. Like many others, I hoped it would help me avoid colors that wash me out and find those ...

As long as people have been able to dress in color, we’ve been desperate to do it better. In the mid-19th century, advances in dyeing technology and synthetic organic chemistry allowed the textile ...