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Couture Spring/Summer 2026 · 26 – 29 Jan 2026

Paris

21Shows
777Looks catalogued
21Designers
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. 1Dior63 looksBlack
  2. 2Alexis Mabille59 looksPink
  3. 3Elie Saab59 looksBeige
  4. 4Chanel54 looksBlack
  5. 5Rahul Mishra53 looksBlack
  6. 6Georges Hobeika46 looksBurgundy
  7. 7Zuhair Murad46 looksSilver
  8. 8Celia Kritharioti42 looksBlack
  9. 9Stéphane Rolland33 looksCharcoal
  10. 10Viktor&Rolf32 looksBlack
  11. 11Schiaparelli30 looksBlack
  12. 12Rami Al Ali30 looksIvory

The palette

  • Black18%
  • Charcoal10%
  • Ivory / cream8%
  • Grey8%
  • White7%
  • Silver6%

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

What was worn together

  • Black over black22%2.4× expected
  • Charcoal over black4%
  • Charcoal over charcoal3%4.0× expected
  • Pink over pink3%11.2× expected
  • Black over charcoal3%
  • Red over red3%11.5× 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

Mermaid was 7.3× as common in Paris as in other cities.

  • Mermaid7.3×
  • Sculptural3.1×
  • Column2.3×
  • Hourglass2.1×
  • Fitted2.1×
  • Draped+69%
  • Asymmetric+17%
  • Straight−43%

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

Paris in the season's story

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1 fashion weeks · January–January 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
Paris Couture · Jan28%22%
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1 fashion weeks · January–January 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 were the last three; Paris was the most vivid of all.

14.2ParisCouture · Jan
Source: Fashion Field Notes · colours measured from 740 runway looks, January–January 2026Embed this · GIF

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

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