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While the Orient pursued a path of opulence and refinement, it wasn’t as if the West had simply lost itself in decadence.
On the contrary, even the barbarian civilizations, with their initially rough and multi-colored clothing, introduced new contributions destined to remain sculpted in European culture.
The new customs featured the use of abstract and geometric shapes, not unlike those used by the Celts and still seen today in plaid fabrics.
A new philosophy of color also evolved: blue and green (the latter obtained from the fusion of reseda and woad) first appeared on a larger scale.
Blue in particular, disregarded by the Romans, became the new emblem of the aristocracy and royalty in the court of Charles the Great, and is still synonymous with elegance and authority.
