It's nearly the time for cool weather, and with that comes transitional dressing: adding in warmer, deeper pieces with lighter, more summery clothes. This is the perfect time for a "soft autumn" ...

A soft serve of sorbet hues made a feminine comeback on the autumn-winter 13-14 runways. Pastel pinks, lavender, mint green and sky blues are breathing new life into moody winter dressing, giving the ...

Soft pastels not only are more powdery than hard pastels but because they contain less binder they also contain more pigment. The very best of them are formulated with an incredibly high ratio of ...

For a relatively low-cost set of pastels, Faber-Castell’s are formulated with an impressively small amount of filler and chalk. These sticks have strong pigmentation that is subtle rather than blatant ...

Pastels are sticks of colour that can be either soft and chalky, or oil based. Soft pastels or chalk pastels are made with a coloured chalk or pigment. Soft pastels allow you to blend and mix the ...

Don't put away your pastels just yet. Just because autumn is right around the corner doesn't mean that wearing pastels in the fall is impossible, or that you need to ditch your lighter-colored pieces.