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Resort 2027 · 11 – 15 May 2026

Sydney

Resort ease: crochet, linen and ocean blues.

4Shows

127Looks catalogued

4Designers

BlackColour of the week

The field note

Sydney's resort shows were sun-washed and easy: open-weave crochet, bias-cut linen slips, and every shade of the harbour.

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

The palette

Black18%
White11%
Charcoal10%
Silver9%
Ivory / cream8%
Beige / camel6%

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

What was worn together

Black over black15%3.3× expected
Beige over beige6%8.0× expected
Charcoal over charcoal4%4.0× expected
White over white4%3.0× expected
Grey over black3%
Charcoal over black3%

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

Sydney against the season

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

Low-rise was 7.8× as common in Sydney as in other cities.

Low-rise7.8×
Sculptural2.8×
Draped2.4×
Fitted2.4×
Asymmetric2.3×
Column2.2×
Inverted triangle−7%
Straight−28%

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

Sydney in the season's story

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1 fashion weeks · May–May 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

Sydney May29%29%

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1 fashion weeks · May–May 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; Sydney was the most vivid of all.

12.1SydneyMay

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The fortnightly digest

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