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Fall/Winter 2026 · 20 – 25 Jan 2026

Paris

Menswear and co-ed shows
28Shows
1,310Looks catalogued
28Designers
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. 1Willy Chavarria103 looksBlack
  2. 2Louis Vuitton82 looksBlack
  3. 3Undercover79 looksBlack
  4. 4Sacai75 looksBlack
  5. 5Dries Van Noten68 looksBlack
  6. 6Dior64 looksBlack
  7. 7Lemaire64 looksBlack
  8. 8Ami Paris58 looksBlack
  9. 9Auralee47 looksBeige
  10. 10Wooyoungmi47 looksCharcoal
  11. 11Kenzo46 looksBlack
  12. 12Issey Miyake44 looksBlack

The palette

  • Black33%
  • Charcoal20%
  • Grey7%
  • Chocolate brown5%
  • Navy4%
  • Beige / camel4%

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

What was worn together

  • Black over black23%1.7× expected
  • Charcoal over charcoal8%2.0× expected
  • Charcoal over black8%
  • Black over charcoal4%
  • Navy over navy2%8.7× expected
  • Grey over charcoal2%1.7× expected

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

Cocoon was 2.0× as common in Paris as in other cities.

  • Cocoon2.0×
  • Oversized+74%
  • Inverted triangle+63%
  • Straight+45%
  • High-rise+16%
  • Boxy−5%
  • Column−32%
  • Asymmetric−44%

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 →

4 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%
Tokyo Mar41%18%
Source: Fashion Field Notes · colours measured from 4,773 runway looks, January–March 2026Embed this · GIF

4 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; Copenhagen was the most vivid of all.

10.9MilanMen's · Jan
9.2ParisMen's · Jan
11.7CopenhagenJan
10.6TokyoMar
Source: Fashion Field Notes · colours measured from 4,773 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 matteCopenhagenMilanTokyoParis

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 darkest, most muted and smoothest city of the season so far.

  • DarkerLighter
  • MutedVivid
  • CoolerWarmer
  • SmoothTextured & printed

Paris the other 3 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.