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\nAndrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway), the leading character of the film The Devil Wears Prada<\/strong> (2005), hadn\u2019t realised the power of Miranda Priestley when, during a styling session, she laughs out loud at the seriousness over a choice of belts.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe editor of the fictitious fashion magazine Runway<\/em>, interpreted by Meryl Streep, shuts her up with a monologue that made history: \u2018You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet, and you select\u2026 I don\u2019t know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you\u2019re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back, but what you don\u2019t know is that that sweater is not just blue, it\u2019s not turquoise, it\u2019s not lapis, it\u2019s actually cerulean. [\u2026] It\u2019s sort of comical how you think that you\u2019ve made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you\u2019re wearing a sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room\u2026 from a pile of \u201cstuff\u201d\u2019. \n\n\n<\/p>\n

\nIn 2016 Caitlin Dewey reported in the Washington Post<\/em> a study that blue<\/strong> would be the most widespread colour on the internet, as well as the most popular in the world across all demographics. When we consider that ancient cave paintings were dominated by red tones, this is an interesting fact. \n\n<\/p>\n

\nThe first civilization to show an appreciation for blue was Ancient Egypt<\/strong>, where lapis lazuli stones from Badakhshan were placed on funerary masks, such as that of the pharaoh Tutankhamon. However, their price prohibited this practice among Ancient Greeks and Romans, and as a result, the incredibly rich Ancient Greek language does not have a word to describe \u2018blue\u2019. In fact, it only became widespread in the early Middle Ages<\/strong>, after the Council of Ephesus (AD 431) stated that the Virgin\u2019s veil had to be rendered in light blue tones. From then on, the colour was associated with the religious and spiritual worlds<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n

\nDuring the Renaissance, blue was associated with aristocracy, and portraits of ladies were replete with draped fabrics in all variations of blue. Another key role for blue came about through the evolution of science. In 1706, the Swiss pigment and dye producer Johann Jacob Diesbach mixed Prussian blue<\/strong>, a vibrant shade that was soon adopted in painting: for example in the masterwork The Great Wave off Kanagawa<\/em>, by Japanese painter Hokusai (1831). The colour became so popular that it soon morphed into different shades \u2013 from cobalt to ultramarine and cerulean blue. \n<\/p>\n\n

\nA more recent major variation, International Klein Blue<\/strong> (IKB), was registered in 1960 by French artist Yves Klein, who used it predominantly in his work because \u2018it has no dimension, it goes beyond dimensions\u2019<\/em>. The same colour was featured in one of the most radical films in the history of cinema, Derek Jarman\u2019s Blue (1993) – 75 minutes of blue frames accompanied only by a narrator and subtitles. \n<\/p>\n

\nAmong Yves Klein Blue\u2019s fans is the Colombian designer Haider Ackermann<\/strong>, who conceived FILA<\/strong>\u2019s 2023 Fall Winter collection by putting the colour through an acidic prism. We all know that in the sportswear brand\u2019s heritage blue is present with different moods and shades: navy in the F-BOX logo and in the earliest tennis tracksuits, light blue in AQUA TIME swimsuits and electric blue in iconic pieces such as the \u2018Jet Suit\u2019 skiing suit worn at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. \n<\/p>\n\n

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