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Fashion Field Notes
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Fall/Winter 2026 · 16 – 21 Mar 2026

Tokyo

30Shows
1,051Looks catalogued
30Designers
BlackColour of the week

What stood out in Tokyo

The season's trends →

8× as often as in other cities

Sky blue

6% of Tokyo looks featured sky blue.

Tokyo6%Other cities1%

in 13 of 30 shows

Mikio Sakabe lookFdmtl looknågonstans lookZUCCa look

2.1× as often as in other cities

Ivory

1 in 6 Tokyo looks featured ivory.

Tokyo17%Other cities8%

in 23 of 30 shows

Eitaro lookTae Ashida lookEnföld lookAncellm look

2× as often as in other cities

White

1 in 9 Tokyo looks featured white.

Tokyo12%Other cities6%

in 25 of 30 shows

någonstans lookYohei Ohno lookViviano lookAncellm 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. 1Agnes B.53 looksBlack
  2. 2Yueqi QI52 looksDenim blue
  3. 3Tae Ashida50 looksBlack
  4. 4Tanaka48 looksCharcoal
  5. 5support surface46 looksBlack
  6. 6Enföld44 looksBlack
  7. 7Eitaro42 looksIvory
  8. 8Ancellm41 looksCharcoal
  9. 9någonstans41 looksWhite
  10. 10Viviano41 looksBlack
  11. 11Mizen38 looksBlack
  12. 12Cote Mer37 looksBlack

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 numbers

Sculptural was 2.1× as common in Tokyo as in other cities.

  • Sculptural2.1×
  • Oversized+40%
  • Inverted triangle+37%
  • Asymmetric+23%
  • Boxy+6%
  • Column+5%
  • Straight−20%
  • High-rise−27%

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 →

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

Tokyo's clothes were the most textured of any city.

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.

← SmootherMore textured →↑ Shinier↓ More matteCopenhagenMilanParisTokyo

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

The character of the clothes

Tokyo was the lightest, coolest and most textured city of the season so far.

  • DarkerLighter
  • MutedVivid
  • CoolerWarmer
  • SmoothTextured & printed

Tokyo the other 3 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.