Colourlovers has an exclusive interview with Blue Iris, recently crowned Pantone's Color of the Year. While it's nice to hear from the color that's been described as "anchoring and meditative with a touch of magic", the article is really just a puff piece. They don't even mention New York Times fashion writer Cathy Horyn's dismissal of Iris Blue as "on the curve, and not ahead of it", which is the kind of fashion smackdown that some colors never recover from.