“I’m terrible with color,” Richard Hutt said, an admission that seemed at odds with his ensemble of coordinated blues, beiges and browns. “I’m colorblind,” he added, “so a lot of it is guesswork.”
Through trial and error, he has developed a better sense for palettes. “I think about the autumnals, the browns, I know what works,” he said. “And then I’ve got the blues and the grays. And then sometimes I just deliberately break my own little rules as well.”
Though his dashing outfit, finished with a cravat and a pocket square, came across as considered, he explained it was anything but. “It was last-minute, actually, and a little bit rushed,” he said. “But I really love autumn, because I can layer and everything that’s been getting dusty all summer gets to come out.”
A 55-year-old television executive at the BBC, he was in Brighton, the English seaside town, with his daughter on a Friday in early October. They were heading to dinner for his birthday. The corduroy blazer he was wearing was not his first choice of jacket for the evening, he said, but “there wasn’t a family agreement on my other blazer.”
He daughter, Luciana, 14, noted that the rich brown shade of her father’s jacket picked up the color of his shoes. “You’re a sandwich,” she said.
Simbarashe Cha is a Times photographer and visual columnist documenting style and fashion around the world.
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