Orange - how to combine it?
Orange as a signal colour is particularly popular on its own, but can also be combined well with other colours and accessories – but less is often more here.
As a rule of thumb, the stronger the orange shade, the more subtle the rest should be. This means: avoid opulent jewellery or wild large-format pattern mixing – orange works best in itself.
Orange dresses look best in combination with subtle colours. The combination of orange with nude tones such as camel, beige or taupe is really noble and elegant. Against this very subtle background, the radiant colour looks particularly beautiful. Accessories such as simple gold or silver jewellery go well with it.
But the summer colour orange can also be perfectly combined with other bright colours: the complementary colour of orange is cyan blue, a strong sky blue with a slight turquoise nuance. These two colours together form an ideal colour-blocking combination and are a real street-style dream team. Orange and purple can look really great together – the contrast between the cool blue and purple tones and warm orange is sure to attract everyone's attention.
By the way: the interplay of these contrasting colours is even chicer when you use one of the colours as a pastel shade: orange really radiates particularly with powdery baby blue or a delicate lilac shade. Conversely, bright apricot is the ideal basis for bold jewel colours such as violet and aquamarine.
Not like this! You should be careful with other signal colours such as yellow, red or grass green, or very contrasting non-colours such as black and white – this combination usually goes wrong, because orange is just too dominant here.