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Emerald green is color of 2013

MICHAEL Michael Kors ' cotton-blend sweater with shoulder

Photo credit: Handout | MICHAEL Michael Kors ' cotton-blend sweater with shoulder grommets, $120, and cotton stretch palm-print jeans, $125, in a shade he calls "kelly" but looks just like emerald; at Bloomingdale's stores and bloomingdales.com.

Irish eyes will be smiling this year, thanks to the color experts at Pantone, who last month declared emerald green the 2013 "color of the year."

Not sage. Not chartreuse. Emerald.

It's a lush, vivid shade that calls to mind environmental protection, says Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute. "Indian mystics refer to it as the color that most balances everything...

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