In "The Score, " Cooke works in a lean palette of black, white and gold.

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The palette was mostly black dotted by striking burnt sienna and poppy, the same colors worn by current It girls and front row guests Emma Stone and Rooney Mara.

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The black, white and gray palette for this landscape, populated by none of the tribal figures featured in Vaslav Nijinsky's original version of "Rite, " is elaborated along the way by spreading-ink-stain projections and by trajectories of smoke rings that appear shot from a cannon.

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In a long shuttered, 19th-century building said to have been the first high-rise in New York City, the designers displayed a restrained color palette of white, black and subtle pastels that included mint and peach.

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The first skill is the ability to deal with complexity: To not see the world in black and white but to perceive the full palette of colors that make up the current situation.

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He had a very strict color palette, never veering away from army green, navy, black and cream.

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The result is a dark and broody palette for leather coats spliced with fur, the colors shifting from black to caramel to brown.

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