2023-10-18 18:05:04
Well, at least when it comes to coloring German cultural monuments, the last generation shows a certain stylistic line. The color orange was agreed upon. The fact that this is a particularly bad choice is evident from its simply explained use. The orange refers to the high-visibility vests, activist circles say. With the clothing that is particularly common in the construction industry, members of the last generation repeatedly found themselves stuck on urban streets. No metaphors, no cultural references, no double bottoms. Simply construction site, demolition, end.
But does the orange line improve the fashionably desolate state of the German climate army? Unfortunately not. Because orange is a common, even tactless color. Organizations that once made them their corporate color may now bitterly regret it. Except perhaps the BSR.
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In fashion, orange has always been treated with caution. The color catches the eye, emphasizes the red tones in the complexion – and is actually only tolerable on expensive, silky fabrics that counteract the plumpness of the tone with shimmering effects. And even if orange is popular for a season, it disappears very quickly. Who has mostly orange clothes in their closet?
As if Berlin didn’t already have enough construction sites, the last generation is always creating new ones.imago images
Even most members of the Last Generation know that orange is an unfavorable choice on their own fighting body. Except Marion Fabian. While turquoise, wine red or greige dominate the material under the high-visibility vests elsewhere, the 73-year-old activist likes to appear in complete orange and yellow looks. This is fashionable outrage.
Now you could say that orange is a great thing. In color psychology, color is primarily associated with vitality and optimism. Orange represents the liveliness of the Dutch or the sunny peacefulness of praying Buddhists. There’s nothing wrong with the color of pumpkins and Hermès boxes either? Exactly, only as a sweater or on the world clock it has no style.
High-visibility vests on asphalt: the latest generation in the typical workwear chic.Imago/Seeliger
It seems too late to turn back and turn to a more coherent color such as green (forest) or blue (ocean). In terms of fashion, the last generation is and remains a lost generation. And life becomes a construction site both in concrete terms with the repair work on colored Berlin monuments and with a color that is always only temporary.
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