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Fashion Field Notes
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Spring/Summer 2027 · 23 – 28 Jun 2026

Paris

Soft tailoring, sheer layers and a return to the bow.

Menswear and co-ed shows
25Shows
1,105Looks catalogued
25Designers
BlackColour of the week

What stood out in Paris

The season's trends →

2× as often as in other cities

Charcoal

1 in 3 Paris looks featured charcoal.

Paris38%Other cities19%

in 25 of 25 shows

Junya Watanabe Man lookGivenchy lookAmiri lookOfficine Générale look

33% more often than in other cities

Black

41% of Paris looks featured black.

Paris41%Other cities31%

in 23 of 25 shows

Officine Générale lookJunya Watanabe Man lookYohji Yamamoto lookEgonlab. look

46% more often than in other cities

Grey

1 in 6 Paris looks featured grey.

Paris17%Other cities12%

in 23 of 25 shows

Saint Laurent lookAmiri lookLouis Vuitton lookUndercover 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. 1Louis Vuitton79 looksCharcoal
  2. 2Rick Owens72 looksBlack
  3. 3Amiri63 looksCharcoal
  4. 4Junya Watanabe Man62 looksCharcoal
  5. 5Lemaire60 looksBlack
  6. 6Ami Paris56 looksBlack
  7. 7Willy Chavarria54 looksBlack
  8. 8Auralee49 looksBlack
  9. 9Kenzo48 looksBlack
  10. 10Wooyoungmi48 looksSilver
  11. 11Comme Des Garçons Homme Plus47 looksBlack
  12. 12Undercover43 looksCharcoal

The palette

  • Black22%
  • Charcoal19%
  • Grey8%
  • Silver5%
  • Ivory / cream5%
  • Beige / camel5%

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

What was worn together

  • Black over black15%2.3× expected
  • Charcoal over charcoal7%2.2× expected
  • Charcoal over black6%
  • Black over charcoal2%
  • Grey over grey2%4.6× expected
  • Navy over navy2%7.5× 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

Oversized was 46% more common in Paris as in other cities.

  • Oversized+46%
  • High-rise+40%
  • Boxy+36%
  • Inverted triangle+36%
  • Straight+26%
  • Draped−26%
  • Column−36%
  • Asymmetric−49%

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 →

9 fashion weeks · June–October 2026

Dark gave way to light

Share of garment area. Copenhagen, São Paulo and Lagos wore more white, cream and pale grey than black and charcoal; no fashion week before August did.

Black & charcoalEvery other colourWhite, cream & pale grey
Florence Jun48%20%
Milan Men's · Jun22%21%
Paris Men's · Jun42%16%
Berlin Jul33%17%
Copenhagen Aug25%27% ◂ lighter
Tokyo Aug30%29%
Mexico City Oct47%13%
São Paulo Oct22%30% ◂ lighter
Lagos Oct18%20% ◂ lighter
Source: Fashion Field Notes · colours measured from 7,548 runway looks, June–October 2026Embed this · GIF

9 fashion weeks · June–October 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; Lagos was the most vivid of all.

7.7FlorenceJun
13.7MilanMen's · Jun
10.9ParisMen's · Jun
14.2BerlinJul
14.3CopenhagenAug
10.8TokyoAug
15.0Mexico CityOct
15.8São PauloOct
21.9LagosOct
Source: Fashion Field Notes · colours measured from 7,548 runway looks, June–October 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 matteBerlinCopenhagenFlorenceLagosMexico CityMilanSão PauloTokyoParis

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

  • DarkerLighter
  • MutedVivid
  • CoolerWarmer
  • SmoothTextured & printed

Paris the other 8 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.