From the Archives: Pink in Vogue — vogue.com

And it wasn’t just for Marie Antoinette’s pack: The rosy hue has never really gone out of fashion. As Vogue noted in 1963: “Pink isn’t new. It’s the eternal glorifier of all women.” Due to its broad spectrum—from palest #yeswayrose blush to neon-bright—the color flatters any variety of skin tones, though it was the art-loving Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli (who unleashed her “shocking pink” into the world in 1937) who can take credit for the trendiness of the latter end of the range, proving that even a color as proven as pink could—when saturated, and taken to a place distinctly non-pastel, still shock.

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