What do you call such a symptom?

Following the pink/blue/boy/girl photography project, discovered this in New York Magazine. People who only wear one colour. Wow.

The interviews are also interesting. Well, naturally, I guess. You must have some really quirky opinions if you've pared your life down to one colour.

Some of my favourites:

Do you make your own blue shoes?
I go to leather fairs and have the factory make me shoes. I also buy white Chanel and Christian Louboutin shoes, and I color them blue with custom-ordered electric-blue Sharpies.

- Valeria “ValBlu” McCulloch. Shoe Designer. Yves Klein blue.

Why gray?
I actually wore turquoise for eight years, but last September, I switched to gray. I’d had a bad year and needed to get out of it.

What about shoes?
That’s hard because even the soles of my shoes have to be gray or white. I get annoyed if the soles are black.

- Rebecca Turbow. Fashion Designer. Gray.

Now you also wear pink. Why?
Sometimes I think it’s because my mother dressed me in pink when I was a child. She wanted me to be a girl.

- Karim Rashid. Industrial Designer. White half the time, pink half the time.

Tell me about your style.
I always wear overalls. I have 30 pairs. I buy children’s sizes from GapKids and Chadwick’s. And I dye everything—my Nike sneakers, my underwear. I can’t fall asleep unless I’m wearing green.

- Elizabeth Sweetheart. Fabric Designer. Kelly green.

But brown is good?
I have brown hair and eyes, and I believe in matching.

Are there any downsides to wearing brown?
I’ve been invited to two events that required black tuxedoes, so I didn’t go. I always said I’d wait until I’d been asked to three tuxedo events before I accepted. So I’m in danger of needing to wear a tuxedo.

- Stephin Merritt. Singer-Songwriter. Brown.

Amazing stuff.