The world is awash with the color purple — lavender flowers, amethyst gemstones, plums, eggplants and purple emperor ...

Also, she noted, the color purple provides a contrast to overarching stresses like inflation, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. “In such times,” she said, “happy colors often come along.

The Color Purple was filmed on location in Macon ... design’s glamourization of Celie’s fantasy world lies in contrast to the more naturalistic approaches to the story’s “real” world.