Pantone, worldwide trend predictor and color consultancy, has revealed that the Color Palet of London Fashion Week (LFW) for spring/summer 2026, which runs from 18 to 22 September, ‘combines familiar comfort with new discoveries, which celebrates the beauty of everyday’.
Pantone predicts that LFW designers for SS26 will show a ‘versatile color presentation’, from uplifting bright colors to an extensive range of neutral tones, beloved heritage colors, modern mid-tones and shades with ‘a neo-elegant flair’.
The combination, according to Pantone, is about ‘Repealing the past with a progressive twist that stimulates authenticity and personal expressions of creativity’, which responds to the wishes of the consumer ‘to balance and convenience, and the focus on portability with the subtle disruption that enables them to give it their own twist’.
Leatrice Eiseman, director of the Pantone Color Institute, said in a statement: “Color can be functional and at the same time evoke emotion. The colors for LFW spring/summer 2026 combine attractive familiarity with a subtle but powerful sense of excitement. This ensures a gradual shift of conventions that meets the wish of a personal ‘consumers’.
“Giving a reinterpretation to traditional elements is a framework for identity. It creates balance and convenience, which makes individual expression and difficulty possible.”
LFW Spring/Summer 2026 Color Palet from Pantone
Highlights from the ten striking colors for SS26 include a roasted lilac tint, a soft pastel yellow hue, a bright orange, a sweet pink, a muted green and a luxurious purple.
Pantone 15-1905 ‘Burnished Lilac’ is a tinted and smoky lavender tint ‘with a perfumed vintage feeling’.
Pantone 18-1756 ‘Teaberry’ is a lively reddish rose color that injects drama and pleasure into the color palette.
Pantone 12-0824 ‘Pale Banana’ is a soft pastel yellow hue with a light atmosphere.
Pantone 16-1459 ‘Mandarin Orange’ is a fruity, clear orange that raises the mood.
Pantone 19-2410 ‘Amaranth’ is a cosmopolitan purple hue, which radiates ‘an aura of mystery and spiritual resonance’.
Pantone 14-1910 ‘TickLed Pink’ is a mix of soft sweetness with power, and at the same time offers a ‘playful attitude that is difficult to resist’.
Pantone 17-3628 ‘Amethyst Orchid’ is a magnetic tint that comes forward as a symbol of visionary luxury.
Pantone 16-1439 ‘Caramel’ is a candied brown.
Pantone 14-4124 ‘Dutch Canal’ is an airy blue with a fresh attraction.
Pantone 16-6116 ‘Shale Green’ is a muted, earthly green with a dry, mineralized appearance.
LFW SS26 seasonless shades
In addition to six new trans-seasonless neutral shades, the ten striking colors for LFW, which, according to Pantone, ‘form’ a basis for building on ‘.
Pantone 12-0605 ‘Angora’ is a soft beige that offers a sense of tactility with a silky, fluffy feel.
Pantone 15-0535 ‘Palm’ is grounded and rooted, designed to create ‘an oasis of flowering green’.
Pantone 12-4300 ‘White Onyx’ is a light-transmitting white with a soft, ethereal glow.
Pantone 19-1526 ‘Chocolate Truffle’ is a delicious rich brown, ‘that our desire for wonderful treats stimulates’.
Pantone 14-4506 ‘Ether’ is an ethereal blue gray with an illusory presence.
Pantone 19-3815 ‘Evening Blue’ is an open and wide dark blue.
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