According to Pantone’s fashion color report, popular color trends for spring will include vibrant pigments like “Poppy Red,” “Lemon Zest,” “Monaco Blue” and “Nectarine,” an excellent forecast for Jill Nobis, fashion and textiles student and senior. Nobis said she enjoys wearing bold colors, depending on her mood as well as what’s in style at the moment.

“Color has a lot of influence on fashion design choices,” she said.

The Pantone color system, which has its roots in the printing and marketing industries, has spread to areas like textiles and food sciences, according to a Feb. 24 article by The New York Times. Every year since 1999, Pantone, which standardized color names by assigning each color to a number, has announced a color of the year. Artists, interior designers, cosmetic companies and fashion designers—including Nobis—use this color to plan their designs. For example, since 2012, Pantone Universe has partnered with Sephora to release a makeup collection based on the color of the year.

For 2013, Pantone declared the color of the year to be Emerald, or Pantone 17-5641, which is described as “a color of elegance and beauty that enhances our sense of well-being, balance and harmony.”

Judy Fisher, advanced fashion and textiles teacher, said she was already starting to see Pantone’s influence in her classes’ designs.

“I’m starting to see green come in into the fabrics. I’ve been getting students who are coming in with lots of really pretty green fabrics, and I haven’t seen that before,” Fisher said.

Students will display their garments at a fashion show during SRT on May 23 in the Dale E. Graham Auditorium, according to Fisher. She said students were creating clothing for the fashion show with colors similar to the ones in Pantone’s predictions.

“A lot of students are making really cute, flirty spring-type garments with bright colors, polka dots and stripes,” Fisher said. “Bright green, bright yellow, oranges and hot pinks are really in.”

Nobis agreed that emerald green will trend in spring fashion and will soon be prevalent in popular clothing stores like Forever 21 and H&M.

“You’ll start seeing a lot of emerald soon,” Nobis said. “You might see emerald leggings or bags or emerald sneaker wedges, since sneaker wedges are really big now. Big, bold jewelry (and sundresses) will come in green. Emerald’s a good color all year round, but it’s especially good for spring because winter’s been so long this year.”

“I probably will (use emerald in my fashion designs) because I think it’s a really bold and important color, and it’s hard not to use whatever the color of the year is,” Nobis continued. “(People) don’t always sew with that color, but you see it everywhere when you go shopping because big designers will use it.”

Victoria “Tori” Baron, fashion and textiles student and senior, said the popularity of Pantone’s color of the year could also be influenced by seasonal trends and nature.

“Green is the color your eyes see the most because it’s the most used in nature, and it’s everywhere around you,” she said. “I think that especially with spring coming up, green is going to be a really big color with all the flowers blooming and everything coming to life.”

According to Fisher, who does interior design work on top of teaching advanced fashion and textiles classes, emerald green is also becoming more popular in that field.

“You’re going to see it popping up a lot in all your home furnishings, and if you look through Architectural Digest and some of the other design magazines, you’re seeing lots of greens trending in the interior design aspect . . . I think that as students graduate and head off to their college dorm rooms, they should think about introducing color and making their dorm rooms a special home since they’re going to be there all year,” Fisher said. “They ought to introduce a lot of color and have a nice, bright place to study and concentrate on doing well when they go off to school next year.”