Fashion’s pivot toward louder, prouder luxury—relatability be damned—makes it no shocker that royal purple is ruling the color charts in 2025. Historically, purple has always played in the ...

Illustration by Aurélia Fronty Q: I’ve heard that purple was called the royal color because purple dye used to be scarce. Why didn’t people just combine blue and red? Dan Warnock | Baker ...

A celebrated royal purple dye popular among ancient kings and priests was already produced on an industrial scale in the Land of Israel in biblical times, new research has shown. The special dye ...

One of the major handbag trends of the early 2020s was color—lots of color. The fashion world’s best bags were dropping in ...