Color in the hot seat
Howard Stern’s Exit Interview with Very Peri, 2022’s Pantone Color of the Year
As it begins its journey to discover its hex code
Howard Stern: Today’s guest is 2022’s Pantone Color of the Year, an interview I’ve been looking forward to nearly as much as my Bruce Springsteen interview.
Robin Quivers: Oh, Howard.
HS: Robin, I see you wore that color shirt as a show of solidarity.
RQ: Because I knew you wouldn’t.
HS: Yeah, let’s be honest, that half-cocked purple looks better on you than it would on me.
RQ: All black people look good in purple.
HS: Hey, now. Anyway, it’s Very Peri in the studio today. It was selected of course by the venerable Pantone Institute, whose yearly color selection influences everything from fashion to interior design — including my wife’s choice of bed sheets, which is why I really wanted to interview this sorry excuse for a color. This is how the Pantone Institute described it last December: “Displaying a carefree confidence and a daring curiosity that…