Pantone Fashion Week Reports SS26

The report on the Spring/Summer 2026 Fashion Weeks draws insights from the Pantone Fashion Color Trend Reports.

Focusing on the highlights from both New York and London Fashion Weeks.

Fashion Weeks always highlight certain Pantone colours. Consequently, the Pantone Fashion Color Trend Report reveals this season’s essential colour narrative for New York and London, featuring a selection of key themes. These themes strongly support dependable and vibrant core shades while introducing lively and dynamic accents that add a touch of enchantment.

About the Pantone Fashion Color Trend Reports:

Pantone is recognized worldwide as the leading authority on colour and a key provider of professional colour standards for the design sectors. They unveiled the Pantone® Fashion Color Trend Reports for Spring/Summer 2026, coinciding with New York Fashion Week (NYFW) and London Fashion Week. The Pantone Color Institute, renowned for its trend forecasting and colour consultancy, highlights the ten standout colours of the season, along with five fresh, seasonless shades.

Pantone Fashion Trend Reports communicate colours seen on the catwalks, using TCX Cotton colours from the Pantone Fashion, Home + Interior range. Providing designers with inspiration to inform future collections, as top fashion designers roll out their new collections for Spring/Summer 2025.

Cotton Swatch Cards are available for all colours listed in the Pantone Fashion Week Reports.

New York Fashion Week Spring/ Summer 2026

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. Finding freedom to redefine colour usage, this season’s palette contrasts warm familiar shades with more vibrant, stimulating colours and foundational tones. Blending versatile shades to empower our own personal style, the combination of maximalist and minimalist colours signals unconventional pairings and novel self-expression. 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.

 

The Pantone trend colours used in New York  were described as “A blend of divergent colour designed to surprise.”

The colours include the vibrant Acacia 13-0640 TCX, Marina 17-4041 TCX, Muskmelon 15-1242 TCX, Alexandrite 18-4835 TCX and Lava Falls 18-1552 TCX, as well as the softer pink tones of Dusky Rose 17-1718 TCX, Tea Rose 16-1620 TCX, Amaranth 19-2410 TCX, Burnt Sienna 17-1544 TCX, Burnished Lilac 15-1905 TCX

“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

 

 

New York Fashion Week Seasonless Shades

“Combining comfort and glam, colors for NYFW Spring / Summer 2025 blend wearability with desirability,” said Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute. “Imbued with appealing deliciousness, they are practical and pragmatic, displaying character and depth but with a fashionable twist that elevates them from the traditional into something much more current and stimulating. ”

The Seasonless Shades are a range of trans-seasonal neutrals to underpin the trends. The warm familiar shades of chocolate, cream and forest green are classic neutrals.

Colours are Coffee Bean 19-0915 TCX, White Onyx 12-4300 TCX, Rhodonite 19-3838 TCX, Angora 12-0605 TCX, Sycamore 19-5917 TCX, Sage Green 15-0318 TCX

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

London Fashion Week Spring/ Summer 2026

Reimagining the past with a forward-thinking twist.

Blending familiar comfort with new discoveries, colours for LFW Spring / Summer 2026 celebrate the authentic beauty of the everyday.

“A thoughtful array of colours that express the traditional through a personal lens.” Experts from the Pantone Color Institute explained that “as consumers seek grounding in changing times, this season embraces and elevates the everyday.”

London Fashion Week SS26 standout coloursThe 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. Consumers desire balance between ease of wearability with excitement to enable them to own the colour.

What are the colours?

London trend colours were bold mood-boosting brights contrasting with modern mid-tones.

Colours highlighted are Burnished Lilac 15-1905 TCX, Teaberry 18-1756 TCX, Pale Banana 12-0824 TCX, Mandarin Orange 16-1459 TCX, Amaranth 19-2410 TCX, Tickled Pink 14-1910 TCX, Amethyst Orchid 17-3628 TCX, Caramel 16-1439 TCX, Dutch Canal 14-4124 TCX, Shale Green 16-6116 TCX.

“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 consumers 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

 

 

The Seasonless Shades are a range of trans-seasonal neutrals which create a foundation to build upon.

This collection comprises Angora 12-0605 TCX, Palm 15-0535 TCX, White Onyx 12-4300 TCX, Chocolate Truffle 19-1526TCX , Ether 14-4506 TCX and Evening Blue 19-3815 TCX.

Combine White Onyx with Ether and Evening Blue for a cool sophistication or wake them up with a zing of green or bright orange accents from the standout colours.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cotton Swatch Cards are available for all colours listed in the Pantone Fashion Week Reports.

Find out more about Pantone products or the colours used during London and New York Fashion Week by browsing our Pantone range. Alternatively, contact VeriVide on pantone@verivide.com and our colour expert Georgina Boulter would be more than happy to help out.