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Interesting you should use pink. In the history of the fashion world, pink tends to become popular in times of uncertainty, worry, and angst. It may not surprise you to know that pink is coming on strong in fashion right now.
The word pink has a variety of existing meanings, many of which are somewhat beside the point you're trying to make:
To stab lightly with a pointed weapon; prick.
To decorate with a perforated pattern.
To cut with pinking shears.
Any of a group of colors reddish in hue, of medium to high lightness, and of low to moderate saturation.
Any of various plants of the genus Dianthus, such as the carnation and sweet William, often cultivated for their showy fragrant flowers.
Any of various other plants, such as the wild pink and the moss pink.
A flower of any of these plants.
The highest or best degree: in the pink of health.
Slang. A pinko.
A pink salmon
adj. pink·er, pink·est
1. Of the color pink.
2. Slang. Having moderately leftist political opinions.
When I apply your test and think of certain very attractive people of color who I know or have dated, the color pink does not come to mind. (There is a rich coffee color, however, with which I have very strong happy associations.) So pink might work in jolly old England, but not in a more multi-cultural society. Actually, it probably wouldn't work in London, for that matter.
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