Royal Purple, Naked Dressing and the Return of Romance: Five More Trends From Paris FW26

Beyond peplum and shearling, Paris Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2026 delivered a handful of quieter but equally persistent trends.

Royal purple emerged as the season's defining colour, with designers across the city doubling down on a shade that had already been building momentum throughout the broader fashion month in New York, London and Milan. The "naked dressing" aesthetic, meanwhile, proved it was a movement rather than a passing moment: Balenciaga's Pierpaolo Piccioli sent out a luxurious brown "naked dress" complemented by leather opera gloves, emphasising body autonomy through sheer design, while Chloé's Chemena Kamali paired fuzzy prairie-chic trousers with ethereal sheer tops, and Saint Laurent introduced waxed lace as an innovative new take on the same idea.

High-impact accessories also returned as a key styling tool across multiple runways, alongside a broader sense of romance replacing the starker minimalism of recent seasons. Chloé's prairie chic extended into a wider tartan and gingham moment as well, with Kamali's collection riddled with plaid motifs that echoed a folkloric, countryside mood running through several other houses that week proof that even in a season without major designer debuts, Paris still managed to set a genuinely coherent colour and mood story.