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Couture Spring/Summer 2026 · Runway colour trends · January to January · 1 fashion weeks · 740 looks measured

Couture Spring/Summer 2026 in motion

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

Black dressed 18% of every garment this season.

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
Paris SS26 · 26 Jan740 looks

The mood of the clothes

One point per fashion week; hover for the week

0 is black, 100 is white

higher is more saturated

black, white, grey, beige and the like

higher is busier surfaces

Every colour of the season

Share of garment area · line shows each fashion week in order
Black17.8% of garments · in 19 showsCharcoal9.6% of garments · in 18 showsIvory8.0% of garments · in 15 showsGrey7.5% of garments · in 18 showsWhite6.8% of garments · in 17 showsSilver6.2% of garments · in 19 showsBeige6.0% of garments · in 15 showsPink5.8% of garments · in 12 showsTan3.9% of garments · in 13 showsBurgundy3.9% of garments · in 14 showsRed3.0% of garments · in 9 showsChocolate brown2.9% of garments · in 12 showsCoral2.1% of garments · in 11 showsNavy1.9% of garments · in 10 showsOlive1.6% of garments · in 13 showsSky blue1.2% of garments · in 10 showsDenim blue1.2% of garments · in 11 showsTeal1.1% of garments · in 5 showsPurple1.0% of garments · in 6 showsLilac0.9% of garments · in 4 showsHot pink0.9% of garments · in 4 showsLime0.6% of garments · in 4 showsButter yellow0.5% of garments · in 6 shows

Shape, fabric and style over time

From our AI description of every look
Column: JULIE DE LIBRAN
Columnin 54% of looksPeaked at Paris, 26 Jan (54%)
Sculptural: GEORGES HOBEIKA
Sculpturalin 36% of looksPeaked at Paris, 26 Jan (36%)
Fitted: GEORGES HOBEIKA
Fittedin 25% of looksPeaked at Paris, 26 Jan (25%)
Hourglass: Zuhair Murad
Hourglassin 25% of looksPeaked at Paris, 26 Jan (25%)
Draped: Zuhair Murad
Drapedin 24% of looksPeaked at Paris, 26 Jan (24%)
Asymmetric: Peet Dullaert
Asymmetricin 22% of looksPeaked at Paris, 26 Jan (22%)
Straight: Peet Dullaert
Straightin 20% of looksPeaked at Paris, 26 Jan (20%)
Mermaid: ALEXIS MABILLE
Mermaidin 17% of looksPeaked at Paris, 26 Jan (17%)
Inverted triangle: Peet Dullaert
Inverted trianglein 15% of looksPeaked at Paris, 26 Jan (15%)
A-line: ALEXIS MABILLE
A-linein 12% of looksPeaked at Paris, 26 Jan (12%)

Share of looks at each fashion week, in date order (1 weeks, 738 looks described by our AI tagger). The dot marks the peak. Photos open the house.

Where the clothes came from

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

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