German specialty chemicals company Clariant’s Leather Business has launched its new shade card illustrating the latest fashion colours for the spring/ summer season 2008, developed in co-operation with an international trend institute. The latest colour themes for spring/summer 2008 come in two contrasting pairs: Versailles and Fly the Flag; and Township and Coastal Path Colours.

Versailles’ gilded tones offer a look of sophisticated luxury, whereas Fly the Flag’s primary brights are fresh and basic with no allusions to grandeur. The delicate nature tints of Coastal Path offer the total opposite to Township’s brooding summer darks.                                                                                         

Clariant has presented these four colour directions on leather samples showing wet end formulations, realised with Clariant’s high quality Derma and Sandoderm dyes, and finishing—based on Clariant’s Neosan 2000 and PPE pigment range.