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Casual options include poplins and denim in sand and sky colors, instead of the brand’s signature shocking pink; Toes sneakers in canvas with gold toe molding, and a raffia version of the Face bag.
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Joelle Diderich, WWD, 13 June 2024
But fashion seems to have waved goodbye to the color-pop elbow-length styles–à la Marilyn Monroe’s shocking pink satin pair in 1953’s *Gentlemen Prefer Blondes–*in favor of traditional accessories in the vein of the debutante-esque Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, circa 1961.
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Alice Newbold, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2024
Seeing a shocking pink flamingo standing tall on a sandy Chincoteague spit?
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Joe Heim, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
In some ways, there’s no garment that feels emotionally further from the taupe pink Babaà sweaters of 2018 than a shocking pink trench coat by Jacquemus, a brand that has long recognised the hue’s allure, or a tailored Valentino suit (a la Zendaya).
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Katy Kelleher, refinery29.com, 14 July 2022
The wigs portrayed in the paintings include a saucy-looking cropped style in black-and-white, a flamboyant rainbow, a look with cascading tresses that fall in shocking pink cascade, and a softer number with flowing curves in subtle earth tones.
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cleveland, 13 Mar. 2022
The Schiaparelli couture show was held in the Musee des Arts Decoratifs to mark a new retrospective at the museum celebrating the late, great couturier who invented the color shocking pink and courted the Surrealist artists.
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Thomas Adamson, ajc, 4 July 2022
Heche immediately eyed some wigs arranged on a shelf over his shampoo area — in colors ranging from natural shades to shocking pink and solid white — and asked about a blue one.
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Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022
While some shades of pink feel docile, soothing, and domestic, shocking pink is anything but.
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Katy Kelleher, refinery29.com, 14 July 2022
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First Known Use
1937, in the meaning defined above
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“Shocking pink.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shocking%20pink. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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