Taupe - Taupe in Culture

Taupe in Culture

Design

• The various tones of the color taupe are widely used in fashion, interior design, industrial design, and in graphic design where Pantone ink and RGB hexadecimal specifiers both describe the color as a warm gray.
• Kelly Hoppen has a paint color called "in love with taupe".

Fashion

• Taupe is used in fashions as a light-warm color to emphasize soft, even tones.

Film

• In Little Black Book, Brittany Murphy says that when Diane Sawyer wears taupe, it is elegant.
• In Ocean's Eleven, on viewing a camera feed of a back hallway of the casino, Danny Ocean (George Clooney) asks: "Why do they always paint hallways that color?" Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt) replies: "They say taupe is very soothing."
• In Factory Girl, Diana Vreeland (played by Illeana Douglas) agrees to buy one of Andy Warhol's art pieces with a shade of taupe.
• In the movie There's Something About Mary, Ted Stroehmann indicates that the colors of his tuxedo are "tan and taupe".
• In Maid in Manhattan, it is referenced in the line, "You look like someone who knows the difference between taupe and caramel." —Caroline Lane (Natasha Richardson) to Marisa Ventura (Jennifer Lopez)

Television

• An episode from the second season of Mad About You, "Instant Karma", revolves around the bad luck Helen attracts after accidentally obtaining a taupe blouse without paying.
• In one episode of The Simpsons, "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade", a child on a bus shouts, "Punchbuggy taupe!"
• In the November 7, 2007 episode of CBS's Criminal Minds, the color taupe is referred to as a "negative color" when picked as a color by a person.
• In the fifth episode of season two of Dilbert the artist Rusty represents the color taupe as orange in an art class.
• Impressionist Rory Bremner has in the past referred to a fictional board that monitors Gordon Brown called "OFBROWN" or "Taupe".
• In The O.C. episode "The Chrismukkah That Almost Wasn't", Seth refers to Summer and Marissa as being taupe on his Chrismukkah color chart due to their lack of holiday spirit.
• In Desperate Housewives episode "Mirror, Mirror", Susan is repainting all the rooms in her house taupe after divorcing Mike Delfino.
• In the second season of Suits, character Louis Litt obsesses over the wall color of Daniel Hardman's office, claiming that it is tan when it is supposed to be taupe. In episode 2 (The Choice) he insists that the renovators repaint the walls, and in episode 4 (Discovery) he tries to use taupe as a conversation starter.