Crimson & Olive & Rose

Crimson (dark, deeply vivid warm red), Olive (dark, muted, earthy warm), and Rose (vivid electric warm pink-red) form an all-warm analogous trio of extraordinary dramatic range — spanning from the darkest, most deeply passionate warm to the most muted earthy warm to the most electrically vivid rose-warm. Together they create the most naturally Flamenco and most deeply Andalusian palette.

The palette is the visual world of the Flamenco tradition (Flamenco — from Spanish Romani: a complex performing arts form comprising song — cante — dance — baile — and guitar — guitarra or toque — developed in the Andalusian region of southern Spain, with roots in the music and dance traditions of the Spanish Gitano community, Moorish musical traditions, and Sephardic Jewish musical traditions). The Flamenco palette: the deep vivid crimson of the most dramatic flamenco dress (the traje de flamenca — the traditional Andalusian flamenco dress in deep crimson-to-red, with layers of ruffled polka-dot fabric — lunares — and a long, sweeping train — cola — the single most spectacular element of the dancer's costume); the dark muted olive of the Spanish cedar (cedro — Cedrela odorata — the traditional tonewood of the Spanish flamenco guitar, providing the characteristic warm, dark, muted olive-to-brown of the guitar's back and sides in the finest instruments made by the most celebrated luthiers); and the vivid electric rose of the fresh red rose (Rosa — the flower from which the color 'rose' takes its name) worn by the Flamenco dancer in her hair, the most iconic visual accessory of the Flamenco tradition.