Data story
The season in colour, week by week
Eleven fashion weeks, thirty-one colours, one long bar chart.
By the Fashion Field Notes desk · 26 October 2026 · 4 min read
Line the fashion weeks up in date order and split each one into the colours its clothes were made of, and the season starts to tell its own story.
Read across a row for a city's character; read down a column for how a colour travelled.
Count the season up as it goes and the ranking moves too. Black never loses first place, but further down the table the pale colours climb past the darker ones.
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