Abstract:

The hierarchical cluster method is proposed in this paper to categorize the women’s spring/summer fashion color based on the color difference between the palettes. Nine years of fashion color palettes from 2007 to 2015 are provided as the database for the aggregation algorithm of hierarchical cluster. The categories of the fashion colors are defined as the inherit category and the creative category according to the yearly occurrence frequency of its color palettes. The experiment result shows that the women’s spring/summer fashion colors can be clustered into 12 inherit categories with the color difference threshold T=10.40 for the hierarchical cluster method, and 38.8% of the color palettes fall into the inherit category. The characteristic of the women’s spring/summer fashion color distribution can be expressed in the final clustering result.