Pantone Color Institute Released Pantone Fashion Color Trend Report Spring/Summer 2023 For London Fashion Week.

A palette that blends our need for high-spirited energy and dynamic vibrancy with colors that comfort and provide a calm space.

Pantone LLC, the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, today announced the Pantone Fashion Color Trend Report Spring/Summer 2023 edition for London Fashion Week (LFW).

Published for the fashion industry by the Pantone Color Institute, the trend forecasting and color consultancy, this season’s report features the top ten standout colors as well as the five new classics we can expect to see as fashion designers introduce new Spring/Summer collections.

According to Pantone Color Institute experts, colors for LFW Spring/Summer 2023 chart a new path forward. Recontextualized with a modern edge, this season’s colors integrate tradition and innovation marrying our need for brightness and vibrant positivity with quieting tinted tones. A fearless attitude and freedom of expression reframes our perceptions of colour with a no-holds-barred approach coming through in witty mixes and animated pairings.

As we anticipate our future, we are embracing the freedom to colorfully express our individuality without constraint. Experiencing a creative liberation that transgresses previous norms, we are adapting and inventing novel pairings and contrasting harmonies.
— Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute.

About the Spring/Summer 2023 LFW Color Palette:

Dynamic shades blend with quiet tones for animated pairings and witty mixes.

PANTONE 17-1563 Cherry Tomato: a tempting red that calls out for attention.

PANTONE 16-1544 Persimmon: a silky honey shaded coral.

PANTONE 14-1140 Iced Mango: a fruity orange with a tropical touch.

PANTONE 12-0643 Blazing Yellow: a heated radiant beam of sunshine.

PANTONE 16-0229 Titanite: an enlivening and lustrous yellow green.

PANTONE 16-6230 Andean Toucan: an exotic green suggestive of the highland forest.

PANTONE 14-4122 Airy Blue: a lightweight blue illustrative of a cloudless sky.

PANTONE 18-4245 Electric Blue Lemonade: a crisp brilliant blue that electrifies the palette.

PANTONE 17-3020 Spring Crocus: a floral purple that blithely blooms in early spring.

PANTONE 16-2122 Pink Cosmos: a garden pink that promotes contrast to all other hues.

About the Spring/Summer 2023 New Classics:

Ultra-calm tints and tones suggest a quiet presence.

PANTONE 13-4201 Oyster Mushroom: a non-presumptive gray with a silent power.

PANTONE 14-6011 Grayed Jade: a mineralized greyed green tone.

PANTONE 12-0912 Tender Peach: a delicate peach with a gentle touch.

PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse: a sweet milk chocolate brown.

PANTONE 19-3954 Bluing: a brisk inky blue.

Fashion Color Trend Report

The colors featured in the semiannual Pantone Fashion Color Trend Report are selected from the Pantone Fashion, Home + Interiors Color System, the most widely used and recognized color standards system for fashion, textile, home and interior design. Each season, the Pantone Color Institute issues the Pantone Fashion Color Trend Report as semi-annual color trend forecasts for the upcoming season, highlighting the top colors you can expect to see at New York Fashion Week and London Fashion Week. The Pantone Fashion Color Trend Report serves as a color reference throughout the season for retailers and brands as well as fashion enthusiasts and reporters.

Pantone Color Institute™

The Pantone Color Institute is the business unit within Pantone that highlights the top seasonal runway colors, selects the Pantone Color of the Year, forecasts global color trends, and advises companies on color for product and brand visual identity. Through seasonal trend forecasts, color psychology, and color consulting, the Pantone Color Institute partners with global brands to effectively leverage the power, psychology, and emotion of color in their design strategy.

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Pantone provides a universal language of color that enables color-critical decisions through every stage of the workflow for brands and manufacturers. More than 10 million designers and producers around the world rely on Pantone products and services to help define, communicate and control color from inspiration to realization – leveraging advanced X-Rite technology to achieve color consistency across various materials and finishes for graphics, fashion and product design. Pantone Standards feature digital and physical color specification and workflow tools. The Pantone Color Institute provides customized color standards, brand identity and product color consulting as well as trend forecasting inclusive of Pantone Color of the Year, Fashion Runway Color Trend Reports, color psychology and more. Pantone B2B Licensing incorporates the Pantone Color System into different products and services, enabling licensees to communicate and reproduce approved Pantone Values and improve efficiencies for their users. Pantone Lifestyle brings color and design together across apparel, home, and accessories.

Color palettes courtesy of Pantone.

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