STARBUCKS GOES COLOUR-IT-YOURSELF WITH CHRISTMAS CUP

It’ll be a ( mostly) white Christmas cup for Starbucks this year, at least stateside. The coffee chain’s latest holiday design lets customers colour it in themselves. The cups — which are typically red- themed — were available Wednesday. Cup sleeves to go with them are red. A plainer red cup from 2015 spurred an outcry from critics upset that it lacked snowflakes, reindeer or specific sym- bols of Christmas. This year the cups feature splashes of red and green amid illustrations of presents, snowflakes and a Christmas tree with star on top. But the black- and white illustration is mainly blank for customers to personalize. “We hope they’ll colour it in to represent what the holidays means to them,” said Leanne Fremar, a creative director at the company.