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Fall/Winter 2026 · Runway colour trends · January to March · 6 fashion weeks · 7,720 looks measured

Fall/Winter 2026 in motion

How the colours on the runway shifted from one fashion week to the next, measured from the clothes in every look.

Womenswear and co-ed shows

Black dressed 31% of every garment this season. The colour on the rise was charcoal, from 12.3% to 15.7%. Fading: navy.

Paris SS27, played out

Womenswear at Paris Fashion Week, day by day · each plays once and holds · free to embed, or download as a GIF

Paris Womenswear SS27 · 8 days of shows

The Paris palette, day by day

Share of all garment area, counted after each day of shows. White pieces made up the largest share on day one; from day two, black clothing did, ending at 23%. The first true colour was chocolate brown, in eighth place.

AfterDay 8Mon 5 Oct · 1 show · 2,344 looks counted

3White7.2%

1Black22.6%

2Charcoal11.5%

4Ivory6.8%

6Beige5.6%

7Grey5.3%

5Silver6.5%

9Tan4.4%

11Pink2.4%

16Coral1.4%

8Chocolate brown5.2%

10Navy3.1%

14Denim blue1.8%

12Olive2.2%

Source: Fashion Field Notes · colours measured from 2,344 runway looks at Paris Fashion Week Womenswear SS27, 28 Sept–5 Oct 2026Embed this · GIF

Paris Womenswear SS27 · 8 days of shows

Nearly 1 in 3 looks in Paris was sheer

Looks with sheer or semi-sheer fabric: 692 of 2,346. 50 of the 56 shows sent out at least one.

29%of looks were sheer or semi-sheerNearly 1 in 3 looksEach dot is 1% of the looks

Source: Fashion Field Notes · 2,346 runway looks tagged by AI at Paris Fashion Week Womenswear SS27, 28 Sept–5 Oct 2026Embed this · GIF

Paris Womenswear SS27 · 8 days of shows

1 in 10 looks in Paris featured chocolate brown

Chocolate brown made up at least 15% of the clothes in 237 of 2,344 looks. After the neutrals (black, white, grey, beige and navy) it was the week's biggest colour.

10%of looks featured chocolate brown1 in 10 looksEach dot is 1% of the looks

Source: Fashion Field Notes · colours measured from 2,344 runway looks at Paris Fashion Week Womenswear SS27, 28 Sept–5 Oct 2026Embed this · GIF

Colour, week by week

Each bar is one fashion week, in date order, split into every colour its clothes were made of · hover for the share

Copenhagen AW26 · 27 Jan442 looks

New York FW26 · 11 Feb990 looks

London FW26 · 19 Feb618 looks

Milan FW26 · 24 Feb2,246 looks

Paris FW26 · 2 Mar2,344 looks

Tokyo FW26 · 16 Mar1,049 looks

Rising and fading

January–February (3 weeks) compared with February–March (3 weeks)

On the rise

Charcoal12.3% → 15.7% of the garments↑Grey4.5% → 6.3% of the garments↑White2.7% → 3.4% of the garments↑Beige4.0% → 4.6% of the garments↑

Fading

Navy5.7% → 3.4% of the garments↓Pink2.2% → 1.1% of the garments↓Ivory5.4% → 4.5% of the garments↓Black31.7% → 30.8% of the garments↓

The mood of the clothes

One point per fashion week; hover for the week

How light the clothes were

0 is black, 100 is white

How vivid the colour was

higher is more saturated

Share of neutrals

black, white, grey, beige and the like

Texture and print

higher is busier surfaces

Every colour of the season

Share of garment area · line shows each fashion week in order

Black31.0% of garments · in 189 shows Charcoal14.7% of garments · in 188 shows Chocolate brown6.2% of garments · in 154 shows Grey5.8% of garments · in 174 shows Ivory4.7% of garments · in 145 shows Beige4.4% of garments · in 136 shows Navy4.0% of garments · in 139 shows Tan3.7% of garments · in 134 shows White3.2% of garments · in 129 shows Silver3.2% of garments · in 125 shows Burgundy3.0% of garments · in 118 shows Olive2.1% of garments · in 115 shows Denim blue2.0% of garments · in 95 shows Red1.6% of garments · in 95 shows Pink1.4% of garments · in 74 shows Forest green0.9% of garments · in 49 shows Coral0.9% of garments · in 63 shows Sky blue0.8% of garments · in 43 shows

Shape, fabric and style over time

From our AI description of every look

Straight: Cucculelli Shaheen — Straightin 37% of looksPeaked at New York, 11 Feb (41%)

Oversized: Celine — Oversizedin 32% of looksPeaked at Tokyo, 16 Mar (45%)

Inverted triangle: Stella Mccartney — Inverted trianglein 24% of looksPeaked at Paris, 2 Mar (32%)

Column: The Garment — Columnin 23% of looksPeaked at New York, 11 Feb (34%)

High-rise: Nicklas Skovgaard — High-risein 16% of looksPeaked at New York, 11 Feb (23%)

Asymmetric: Uma Wang — Asymmetricin 16% of looksPeaked at Paris, 2 Mar (23%)

Hourglass: Palomo Spain — Hourglassin 12% of looksPeaked at London, 19 Feb (23%)

Draped: Akris — Drapedin 12% of looksPeaked at Paris, 2 Mar (16%)

Sculptural: Ryunosukeokazaki — Sculpturalin 12% of looksPeaked at Paris, 2 Mar (19%)

Cocoon: Anthem A — Cocoonin 9% of looksPeaked at Paris, 2 Mar (12%)

Share of looks at each fashion week, in date order (6 weeks, 7,736 looks described by our AI tagger). The dot marks the peak. Photos open the house.

Where the clothes came from

Cultural influences →

38% of shows drew on a specific dress or craft tradition. The most referenced: tartan / kilt, adire and pankou / frog closures.

East Asia 16.6% of shows
West Africa 7.1% of shows
European folk & regional dress 13.2% of shows
South Asia 5.2% of shows
Latin America & Caribbean 2.1% of shows

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