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Rumored bronze iPhone color is this year's "color du jour"

Brown is enjoying a rare moment as the current color du jour.

Paddy O’Donnell, brand ambassador for the British luxury paint company Farrow & Ball, describes brown as “a friend of the interior decorator,” adding sophistication whether you opt for something pale, mid-tone or dark and playing well with a variety of other hues, from oranges and pinks to steel blues. “As AI-driven aesthetics become more prevalent,” Thomas says, “there’s a renewed focus on human skill and artisanal craftsmanship.” Words frequently invoked by trend forecasters to describe brown include “comforting,” “grounding,” “earthy,” “understated,” “sophisticated” and, of course, “luxurious.” In 1363, for example, an English statute decreed that “Carters, Ploughmen, Drivers of the Plough, Oxherds, Cowherds, Shephards … and all other Keepers of Beasts, Threshers of Corn … and all other People, that have not Forty Shillings of Goods … shall not take nor wear no Manner of Cloth, but Blanket, and Russet of Twelve-Pence.”

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