The world is replete with color choices. Boysen launched its 24 colors for 2024-25 at the start of 2024. Pantone launched its 2025 color of the year Mocca Mousse at the end of last year. The couturiers launched their fashion colors for their Spring and Summer 2025 collections in September last year.
Now WGSN, a company that calls itself the number one consumer trend forecaster in the world, came out with their Colour of the Year for 2025, which they call Future Dusk. An expert explains how WGSN prepares for a color trend two years in advance.
She says that Future Dusk is “a very dark, moody intriguing hue. It sits between blue and purple and it has a sense of mystery and escapism that is feeding into the themes of transition, which is a big topic for us at WGSN.”
Future Dusk in Interiors
We’ve translated Future Dusk into Boysen closest color matches, and have envisioned this color in your interiors. Being a dark, moody color, it spells a cocooning living space that helps restore you when you’re at home.
Altar of Heaven in the Bedroom
Altar of Heaven (BCP-1264) is a beautiful color for the bedroom, where you need a calm hue to help you relax and rest. As highlighted by the WGSN expert, the world is definitely going through a time of transition. Some of us would even call it chaos. A cool color like Future Dusk could help bring high energy into one that is more balanced and less stress for the body.
Crown Prince in the Living Room
Crown Prince (BCT18-7418S) is another alternative that Boysen can offer that is a good color match for Future Dusk.
Most people prefer a light neutral for the living room because it is a social place where people converge and connect. Even a warm color like yellow is preferred. However, a paint color like Crown Prince in a tropical country like ours would help to make your living room into a serene and welcoming spot.
The beauty of this color is its versatility. It is both dramatic and calming, and can uplift an otherwise ordinary place to something special.
So Many Color Trends
What do you do when you are faced with so many color trends? Others welcome it because the more choices there are, the better. But some find so many choices confusing.
Here’s a scene in “The Devil Wears Prada” where Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) searingly schooled Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway) about her choice of a cerulean blue sweater. Miranda made it clear that the choice of a (fashion) color was selected by a handful of people.
We are indeed surrounded by colors that others have chosen, and we knowingly or not, reach out for them. However, the world offers so many colors. Nature itself is a good source.
This is the reason why we say that color is a personal choice. It does not matter that you follow a trend or your own heart. As long as it is YOUR choice to paint your home in a particular color.
Even if customers explicitly ask us to choose a color for them, the best we can do is to point them to our Boysen app, our fan decks and color swatches, the Color Library, and the Mix and Match stations found all over the country.
Other places you can find some of the swatches of the thousands of paint colors that Boysen offers is this blog, and our other social media channels—Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. So go ahead and subscribe to all the channels for some free advice and tips.