The American Suzanne Caygill (1911-1994) developed her system of colour consulting in the 1940s, which focuses on every person’s individuality. She distinguished between the seasonal types spring, summer, autumn and winter, but those four skin types were only a basic framework. Suzanne Caygill distinguished between many different subtypes such as Classic Winter, Soft Winter, Patrician Winter, Dynamic Winter and Exotic Winter. The allocation of her clients to a season was primarily based on their personality, charisma, posture and voice, and only secondarily on the individual pigmentation of skin, hair and eyes. In Suzanne Caygill’s opinio ...weiter

Your body’s basic shape as well as the proportions of your body are the basis for image consulting. For example, the relative proportion of your head to the length of your body can be balanced out by choosing according cuts of clothing, as can the proportion of the length of your legs to your upper body. By including the special characteristics of your face and your body, I determine harmonious details for your clothes such as the size and type of prints and patterns or the lapel of jackets and coats. I’ll be happy to give you general guidelines on the right length of trousers or shirt sleeves. My consultation is not based on current tren ...weiter

Our body is like a precious painting: colours, shapes and proportions have to be harmonious in order for us to portray a true image of ourselves. Our individual charisma adds radiance to this piece of art. Carla Mason Mathis, a student of Suzanne Caygill’s, occupied herself intensively with the development of individual image consulting. She aimed at enabling every woman to find a suitable expression of her beauty. This is what my consultation is all about. The body’s basic shape as well as lines and proportions of your body are the basis for image consulting in order to determine advantageous cuts for your wardrobe. By including the sp ...weiter

Already Suzanne Caygill, the pioneer of color consultation in the 1940s, differed between male and female coloration. Colors from the mineral realm, you seemed to be more suitable than the flowers or blossoms, which she assigns to women for men. The shades on the basis of minerals or metals have a strong color intensity, which corresponds to a quasi-masculine color quality. Suzanne Caygill differentiated in their deliberations four main types whose names are still used by many color consultants: spring, summer, autumn and winter. The naming of these types according to the four seasons should help to understand their customers and clien ...weiter

Suzanne Caygill, the pioneer of colour consultation, already differentiated between four skin types in her consultations: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Giving the types those names was supposed to help her customers understand their own colour palettes. In addition, Suzanne Caygill also distinguished between female and male colour schemes. While she allocated flower and blossom colours for women, colours of minerals seemed more suitable for men, in her opinion. The colour of your eyes, hair and skin is the basis for the a colour consultation. Compiling a colour passport is the harmonious expansion of your natural colour palette. Your ra ...weiter

The scientists who dealt with the topic “colour” already in former centuries included colour recommendations for clothing in their theories. The author and colour-theoretician Johan Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) made reference to colours in clothing in his book “On the theory of colours”. The Swiss painter and arts pedagogue Johannes Itten (1888-1967) showed in an experiment with his students that everyone prefers those colours in painting that are most advantageous for them regarding their clothing. He is considered the founder of colour type theory. Colour consultation is hence not completely new. In the 1940s, the American Suzan ...weiter