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Fall/Winter 2026 · 2 – 10 Mar 2026

Paris

Womenswear and co-ed shows
57Shows
2,489Looks catalogued
57Designers
BlackColour of the week

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. 1Balenciaga82 looksBlack
  2. 2Celine70 looksForest green
  3. 3Isabel Marant67 looksBlack
  4. 4Dior66 looksBlack
  5. 5Loewe66 looksBlack
  6. 6Miu Miu66 looksBlack
  7. 7Dries Van Noten62 looksBlack
  8. 8Tom Ford62 looksCharcoal
  9. 9Elie Saab61 looksBlack
  10. 10Undercover59 looksNavy
  11. 11Lanvin58 looksCharcoal
  12. 12Givenchy57 looksBlack

The palette

  • Black33%
  • Charcoal19%
  • Grey7%
  • Chocolate brown5%
  • White3%
  • Beige / camel3%

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

What was worn together

  • Black over black25%1.6× expected
  • Charcoal over charcoal8%2.6× expected
  • Charcoal over black6%
  • Black over charcoal3%
  • Chocolate brown over black2%
  • Black over grey1%

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

Paris against the season

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

Inverted triangle was 80% more common in Paris as in other cities.

  • Inverted triangle+80%
  • Sculptural+62%
  • Oversized+34%
  • Asymmetric+26%
  • Draped+14%
  • Column+14%
  • Straight+12%
  • High-rise−4%

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

Paris in the season's story

All five shifts →

6 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
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 7,720 runway looks, January–March 2026Embed this · GIF

6 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.

11.7CopenhagenJan
12.6New YorkFeb
10.5LondonFeb
11.5MilanFeb
10.3ParisMar
10.6TokyoMar
Source: Fashion Field Notes · colours measured from 7,720 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

Paris's clothes were the smoothest of any city.

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

Shine

Paris sat mid-pack on shine.

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

← SmootherMore textured →↑ Shinier↓ More matteCopenhagenLondonMilanNew YorkTokyoParis

Traditions on the Paris runway

Cultural influences →

202 looks across 69 of 200 shows drew on a specific dress or craft tradition (2.4% of the looks).

From where

What, and who

The character of the clothes

Paris was the most muted and smoothest city of the season so far, and darker than most.

  • DarkerLighter
  • MutedVivid
  • CoolerWarmer
  • SmoothTextured & printed

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

The fortnightly digest

Paris is one of 17 cities we read

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