The painter Josef Albers spent his teaching career proving that no colour is seen on its own. "Colours present themselves in continuous flux, constantly related to changing neighbours and changing conditions," he wrote in Interaction of Color (1963). His exercises showed the same colour shifting in temperature and weight depending on what surrounds it. In short, Albers delivers us a manifesto on how to style in the winter - against the canvas of a grey British street, colour is your super power. A charcoal coat disappears in the crowd. A burgundy one makes the crowd part.
