Meaning of Colors & Colors Creating Meanings

I am interested in color and art direction, in particular, clothing. I really love the way color is used in Godard's films and Volver. Very bright ad bold, but still a pretty simple clothing style. I don't have any ideas in regards to narrative with this, but I would like to make a film, or at least do art direction where the colors of the character's clothing correspond with the character's progress and emotions. I realize this isn't a new idea or concept, but I would like it to be more bold and more obvious. I would like the clothing colors to be more of a focus of the film than just an assistant. I'm really interested by how strong of meanings we put to colors-some colors have become gendered and some now radiate emotions to us. For exmaple: red-lust, passion, anger, power, blood; Pink-feminine, dainty, pretty; Purple is now mostly a feminine color, but used to be associated with power and royalty, and I think it's interesting how these meanings can change. Pink was not associated with femininity until the early 1900's when people became more concerned with separating the genders from birth. I think it would also be interesting to go against all of these meanings and see how people understand the film.