London FASHION WEEK SPRING / SUMMER 2026 TOP COLOURS
Laurie Pressman / Pantone Color Institute™ / 18 September 2025
Reimagining the past with a forward-thinking twist.
According to our experts, London Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2026 features a thoughtful array of colours that express the traditional through a personal lens. As consumers seek grounding in changing times, this season embraces and elevates the everyday.
The eclectic display of colour featured for LFW Spring / Summer 2026 creates a surprising interplay between refinement and reinvention. Retelling the past with a forward-thinking twist that empowers authenticity and personal expressions of creativity, mood-boosting brights are contrasted with an expanded range of neutrals, well-loved heritage shades, modern mid-tones and hues with a neo-elegant flair. This fusion of reality with creativity embodies the consumers desire for balance and ease and commitment to wearability with the gentle disruption that enables them to make it their own.
Colour can be functional while also evoking emotion. Colours for LFW Spring / Summer 2026 blend desirable familiarity with a subtle yet powerful excitement for a small yet elevating move away from convention that fulfills the consumer's desire for a personal signature. Giving traditional elements a reinterpreted twist becomes a framework for identity, creating a balance and ease that facilitates individualized expression and effortlessness as well.
Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute
Top 10 Standout Colours
A palette of colour that elevates the everyday.
The Seasonless Shades
A range of trans-seasonal neutrals create a foundation to build upon.
NEW YORK FASHION WEEK Spring / Summer 2026 TOP COLOURS
Laurie Pressman / Pantone Color Institute™ / 11 September 2025
A mix of divergent colours to unleash individual expression.
According to Pantone Color Institute experts, designers at NYFW Spring / Summer 2026 fearlessly step into personal expression, a dramatic bulwark against AI and creeping homogenisation. Finding freedom to redefine colour usage, this season's palette contrasts warm familiar shades with more vibrant, stimulating colours and foundational tones.
Celebrating self-expression and individualism, NYFW Spring / Summer 2026 gives us a very new way of putting colours together.
Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute
Colours for Spring / Summer 2026 continue the drumbeat for honesty, authenticity and desire to put our own unique stamp on what we wear. The balance of colours that boldly celebrate the joyfulness of dressing with trans-seasonal neutrals and calming minimalist tones create new looks free from constraint.
From the quietly glamorous saturation of Alexandrite teal to the dramatic intensity of Lava Falls red, from the ethereal White Onyx to the balancing power of Sage Green, this combination of maximalist and minimalist colours signals fresh silhouettes, unconventional pairings and novel self-expression that showcases humanity in all its guises.
Top 10 Standout Colours
A blend of divergent colour designed to surprise.
The Seasonless Shades
A range of trans-seasonal neutrals underpin the foundation.
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