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Fashion Field Notes
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Fall/Winter 2026 · 19 – 23 Feb 2026

London

18Shows
618Looks catalogued
18Designers
BlackColour of the week

What stood out in London

The season's trends →

74% more often than in other cities

Navy

1 in 7 London looks featured navy.

London13%Other cities8%

in 13 of 18 shows

Mithridate lookHarris Reed lookRoksanda lookLabrum London look

31% more often than in other cities

Ivory

1 in 8 London looks featured ivory.

London12%Other cities9%

in 14 of 18 shows

Roksanda lookMithridate lookTemperley London lookPaul Costelloe look

Every show, by colour

One bar per collection, split into the colours measured from its garments. Sort the shows, or tap a colour to rank the houses that wore it.

Who wore
  1. 1Simone Rocha60 looksBlack
  2. 2Burberry55 looksBlack
  3. 3Erdem48 looksBlack
  4. 4Mithridate45 looksBlack
  5. 5Paul Costelloe44 looksChocolate brown
  6. 6Chopova Lowena38 looksBlack
  7. 7Roksanda37 looksBlack
  8. 8Temperley London36 looksBlack
  9. 9Huishan Zhang33 looksBlack
  10. 10Labrum London32 looksBlack
  11. 11Ahluwalia30 looksBlack
  12. 12Pauline Dujancourt28 looksBlack

The palette

  • Black37%
  • Charcoal11%
  • Navy7%
  • Chocolate brown6%
  • Ivory / cream6%
  • Grey5%

Share of garment area, measured from the clothes in every look (skin and set excluded).

What was worn together

  • Black over black30%1.5× expected
  • Charcoal over black5%
  • Black over navy3%
  • Black over charcoal3%
  • Ivory over black2%
  • Navy over navy2%5.3× expected

Top colour over bottom colour, share of looks. “Expected” is how often the two colours would meet by chance.

London against the season

From our AI description of every look · hover a row for the numbers

Hourglass was 2.4× as common in London as in other cities.

  • Hourglass2.4×
  • A-line2.3×
  • Inverted triangle+23%
  • Column+16%
  • Straight+1%
  • Asymmetric−4%
  • High-rise−19%
  • Oversized−27%

London other cities · share of looks · right-hand figure is how much more (or less) often

London in the season's story

All five shifts →

8 fashion weeks · January–March 2026

Dark gave way to light

Share of garment area in dark and light neutrals at each fashion week.

Black & charcoalEvery other colourWhite, cream & pale grey
Milan Men's · Jan45%8%
Paris Men's · Jan55%9%
Copenhagen Jan43%12%
New York Feb44%12%
London Feb49%11%
Milan Feb45%10%
Paris Mar53%10%
Tokyo Mar41%18%
Source: Fashion Field Notes · colours measured from 10,971 runway looks, January–March 2026Embed this · GIF

8 fashion weeks · January–March 2026

The season saved its colour for last

Average vividness of the clothes at each fashion week (colour saturation, 0 is grey). The three most vivid weeks are highlighted; New York was the most vivid of all.

10.9MilanMen's · Jan
9.2ParisMen's · Jan
11.7CopenhagenJan
12.6New YorkFeb
10.5LondonFeb
11.5MilanFeb
10.3ParisMar
10.6TokyoMar
Source: Fashion Field Notes · colours measured from 10,971 runway looks, January–March 2026Embed this · GIF

Texture and shine

Measured from the surface of the clothes in every look · hover a city for its numbers

Texture

London sat mid-pack on texture.

Knits, pleats, prints and embellishment push a city right.

Shine

On shine, London was the most lustrous of any city.

Satin, leather, vinyl, sequins and lamé push a city up.

← SmootherMore textured →↑ Shinier↓ More matteParisNew YorkTokyoMilanCopenhagenLondon

Traditions on the London runway

Cultural influences →

27 looks across 5 of 18 shows drew on a specific dress or craft tradition (4.4% of the looks).

From where

What, and who

The character of the clothes

London sat close to the middle of the season, if a little darker, muted and textured.

  • DarkerLighter
  • MutedVivid
  • CoolerWarmer
  • SmoothTextured & printed

London the other 5 cities measured so far · from the colours of every garment

The fortnightly digest

London is one of 17 cities we read

Get the fortnightly digest: how London compares with every other fashion week on colour, silhouette and fabric, as the season moves.