La fascinazione esotica nei colori della moda

Abstract

The article provides, through a rich exemplification, an illustration of the cromonymic richness of the Italian language, with particular reference to some of the main realia involved in the colours naming: from animals to the natural environment, from plants to fruits, from cosmetics to textiles, from precious stones to the widest variety of objects. The attention is then focused, in particular, on the vocabulary of fashion (observed on a textual sample drawn from the magazine Vogue), that in Italian as well as in other languages documents an interesting general symptomatology of the perceptual spectrum and the colours psychosensory representation, for its tonality, brightness and purity, which involves innumerable nuances.