Fall/Winter 2026 · 16 – 21 Mar 2026
Tokyo
What stood out in Tokyo
The season's trends →
2.6× as often as in other cities
Denim blue
1 in 11 Tokyo looks featured denim blue.
in 16 of 30 shows
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.
The palette
- Black25%
- Charcoal15%
- Ivory / cream8%
- Grey7%
- White6%
- Navy5%
Share of garment area, measured from the clothes in every look (skin and set excluded).
What was worn together
- Black over black16%2.3× expected
- Charcoal over charcoal7%2.7× expected
- Black over charcoal3%
- Charcoal over black3%
- Ivory over ivory3%4.0× expected
- White over white3%5.9× expected
Top colour over bottom colour, share of looks. “Expected” is how often the two colours would meet by chance.
Tokyo against the season
From our AI description of every look · hover a row for the numbersBoxy was 2.1× as common in Tokyo as in other cities.
- Boxy2.1×
- Oversized+75%
- Inverted triangle+24%
- Sculptural+10%
- Straight+3%
- High-rise+3%
- Asymmetric−8%
- Column−45%
Tokyo other cities · share of looks · right-hand figure is how much more (or less) often
Tokyo 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.
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.
Texture and shine
Measured from the surface of the clothes in every look · hover a city for its numbersTexture
Tokyo's clothes were more textured than most cities.
Knits, pleats, prints and embellishment push a city right.
Shine
Tokyo sat mid-pack on shine.
Satin, leather, vinyl, sequins and lamé push a city up.
Traditions on the Tokyo runway
Cultural influences →108 looks across 25 of 54 shows drew on a specific dress or craft tradition (5.9% of the looks).
From where
What, and who
- Kimono / obi brocade · Cote Mer, Yohei Ohno
- Tabi · Enföld, Fdmtl, pillings
- Boro patchwork · Cote Mer, Fdmtl
- Sashiko · Cote Mer, Fdmtl
- Geta / zori · Enföld, Wisharawish
- Kasuri · Cote Mer, Mizen, Wisharawish
The character of the clothes
Tokyo was the lightest and coolest city of the season so far, and muted and textured than most.
- DarkerLighter
- MutedVivid
- CoolerWarmer
- SmoothTextured & printed
Tokyo the other 5 cities measured so far · from the colours of every garment
The fortnightly digest
Tokyo is one of 17 cities we read
Get the fortnightly digest: how Tokyo compares with every other fashion week on colour, silhouette and fabric, as the season moves.