Life in Colour - 34: The Colours You Will See In Stores This Spring & Summer

Episode Date: August 31, 2026

This week I'm walking you through the colours that are about to land in stores for spring and summer here in the Southern Hemisphere: straight from the Pantone London Fashion Week Trend Palette and the Pantone New York report. I go colour by colour and tell you which colour season each one belongs to, which sister palettes can borrow it, and how to actually wear it because seeing a swatch on a screen is never quite the same as having it explained to you. You'll hear me talk through burnished lilac, tea berry, pale banana, mandarin orange, amaranth, tickled pink, amethyst orchid, caramel, Dutch canal blue and shale green from the London report, plus acacia, marina, musk melon, alexandrite teal, lava falls, dusty rose, t-rose and burnt sienna from New York — along with the seasonless neutrals from both. If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, you've probably already seen these colours land in stores so this episode is really for those of us in Australia and New Zealand who are just starting to see them come through. Links to the Pantone reports are below so you can see the colours as I talk about them. Pantone London Fashion Week Trend Report & Pantone New York Trend Report. A note on shopping overseas I mention this in the episode and I'll say it again here — if you're in the Southern Hemisphere and feeling like you're seeing the same things over and over in store, try shopping overseas online. Smaller population, smaller range in our shops. I've just done this myself for a set I found on Instagram. And if you're in the Northern Hemisphere heading into your off-season, you can do the same in reverse. How to work with me If listening to this made you wonder where your own colours actually sit here's where to start. Virtual Colour Analysis: $150  a full colour analysis done virtually, so you know exactly which of these seasonal colours are yours to wear. The Colour Collective: $32.95/month My monthly membership, for ongoing support, outfit ideas, and "What's In Store" content like this episode — but personalised to your palette every month. The Style Reset:  $997 My 1:1 premium programme, for anyone ready to properly rebuild their wardrobe around their colours and their life. The easiest way to reach me about any of these is a DM on Instagram. I read every one myself. Instagram: @lovingcolour__ Website: lovingcolour.au If you enjoyed this episode, a review would mean the world  and it helps other women find the podcast.

Welcome to Life in Color, the podcast where we dive into the real, raw and wonderfully colorful aspects of life. I'm your host, Ashley, and I'm here to explore the ins and outs of seasonal color analysis, navigating motherhood, thriving in your 40s and beyond, and embracing health and wellness with a healthy dose of humor. Join me as we uncover the secrets behind finding your perfect palette, share stories of the joys and challenges of being a mom, and from practical tips to heartfelt conversations, life in color is your space to laugh, learn, and live life unapologetically in all of its colorful hues. So grab your favorite drink, settle in and let's add some color to this adventure that we call

life. Welcome to Life in Color. Hey everyone, I hope you are having a great week so far. I am yesterday. I went for a walk on the beach just by myself. If you didn't see my stories on Instagram, I just sometimes it's really good just to have a little bit of time with your own thoughts, no podcast, no music, no nothing, and just be. And that's what I did yesterday.

So I am fully refreshed and ready to go for the week. And this week, it's a really fun episode. I love recording these kinds of episodes. So this week, I'm actually going into the colors that you're going to start coming into, the Southern Hemisphere for spring and summer. Now, I'm going to do a separate episode for Northern Hemisphere listeners because I actually think it's easier to break it out that way. So if you're a Northern Hemisphere listener, you probably already know all the things I'm going

to say because you would have already seen it, but for those of us that live in like Australia and New Zealand and all that kind of thing, you're going to actually start seeing these colours coming in. Now, I'm going to put the links in the description so that when you're listening to this, you can actually see the colours that I'm talking about, so you've got a visual. But I actually think it's really good to talk them through. Now, I know a lot of people sometimes will think, oh my gosh, she's got a fashion and style and colour podcast and she talks about colour all the time and colour is such a visual thing. It is such a visual thing, but sometimes having it explained to you makes you understand it a lot better than say just literally looking at

a picture and you're like, I have no idea what that color is like. That could be any kind of season. I don't know what season I am. And that's where I'm here to help with all of that. So we're going to get straight into it. Now, just to note with Pantone, and they're the references that I use, you have Pantone that does a London report and then you have one that does a New York report. Now, some of the colors are quite similar.

Sometimes they differ quite a bit. Now, in Australia in particular, and I know that New Zealand is probably the same, we have influences in our style and our fashion based from the UK and Europe as well as from America. Sometimes it can be a bit more American based than it is, say, necessarily from the UK. However, I think it's really important to talk about both of them, and especially if you're shopping online, I can't tell you enough if you're in the Southern Hemisphere and you are so bored of what you're necessarily seeing. Like, it's the same things over again.

Like we are much smaller populations than what you're going to have in Europe and in the US and in the UK. We're a lot more limited in sometimes in the things that we get in store and the varieties that we get in store. Shop overseas. Like for an example, I've actually just found a set. It is for spring and summer and it is a matching set from, I'm pretty sure it's called 11 loves. I found it online on Instagram and it's a beautiful set. And it's a blue and white striped skirt and it's got a matching top. Now, it is on sale and it's pretty much sold out.

I'm really hoping I still get my size. But I'm shopping online overseas for our coming season. And I do this quite a bit purely because sometimes I just want something different. And if you're in the Northern Hemisphere and you're listening to this and you think, well, I can't do that. Yes, you can. You can shop from Australia, New Zealand, South African stores and you can get that shipped to you.

Like, for example, we're coming to the end of our winter. So if you're wanting something a bit different that you don't necessarily see in your country, you can just get it shipped over to you. Anyway, that's enough about that. It has to start raining, so hopefully you won't hear the noise on my windows and on my roof. But we're going to get straight into it. So let's start with the London one, the London Fashion Week Trend Pallet. And that's what it's called. It's called the Color Trend Report. Now, the reason that it's called a Trend Report, obviously the colours change every single season. They do. And so when we're talking about trends. You know me. I don't like trends and all that kind of thing. However, I also have to acknowledge

that certain colours come and go from stores. They're not always in and there are some that come in and they stay for ages and there are some that come very, very quickly and then leave very, very quickly, just like a normal trend. So we're going to start with Pantone, London. Then we will move on to New York. Now, you've got the actual palette for the entire season for spring, summer 26 and then you have what they call the seasonless shades. They're the ones that they are counting as neutrals. Sometimes I don't necessarily see them as neutrals, but that's what they call as a neutrals for that particular season. So let's get into it. And I'm going to name them so that you can actually research them and log them up. Hopefully I will get this right. I'm literally turning my

head sideways because that's how they've got it and that's my laptop in front of me. Okay. The first color by Pantone London is called burnished lilac. Now, if I didn't know that that was called lilac, I wouldn't have thought it was a lilac. Now, it's a very cool toned, like mushroom stone kind of color. This is a fantastic color, A, for soft summer, soft autumns can borrow it too. They may find that it's a little bit too cool tone for you if you're a soft autumn. But for summers and even winters, it's a really lovely neutral color. Now they have, this isn't in the neutral palette. This is in the main palette, but it's a really lovely color. You could wear that as a top, a tank, pants.

Like, it's a really great one for pants that you could then put so many different colors with. You could wear it as a jacket, as a trench, accessories, you name it. You could do it. You could wear a shoes. A suede handbag would look amazing in this. So they've called it Burnished Lilac. I can see a little bit of like a pinky purpley undertone to it, but it definitely is more of like a light mushroom stone kind of color. But really, really, really lovely.

Now, the next one is called Tea Berry, which is a lovely name. That is a beautiful, cool winter red. It is absolutely stunning. Now, it's not super, super intense for a red, and I am going to say that because I actually think cool summers, even some not necessarily soft summer, but maybe even a light summer could borrow this kind of red. Now, I was in stores in Sydney City last week. there is a lot of red coming out, a huge amount of red. I didn't see any in this particular shade of red

because it is a softer, more muted kind of red. It's not like full on bright, like a bright, bright cherry or a bright bright raspberry. It definitely isn't full on. It's still a winter red though. And you're going to get variations of these colours in store. So all of the colors that I'm going to talk about today, you are going to see variations of them in stores. So, you might be thinking, oh, I'll go into a store and that tea berry, that's all I'm going to see. No, you're going to see so many different shades because stores interpret it in their own way, or they see it as, oh, there's red, we're going to do this kind of red. So, for example, seed, I know have like a very much, a very bright, more orange-based red at the moment.

It's fabulous. It's fantastic. There's no way me as a summer could borrow it, but this tea berry, I do think summers could borrow it. Now, winters, all of winters could wear this tea berry color. It is absolutely beautiful. Then you've got some sister palettes that could potentially borrow it. Like Bright Spring, I think, could borrow this kind of red as well if they wanted to. But I do think that with so many reds coming into stores, you're actually going to be able to find

your own pretty much for the majority of palettes. Like when I was in a store the other day with my daughter, she bought a red and white striped shirt. And she's a deep autumn. Finding her kind of red sometimes can be a little bit tricky because sometimes they're a bit too bright and bold for her and this red was perfect. Like it wasn't a burgundy, it wasn't like a brownie red, no, it was a proper red, but it was absolutely stunning. Okay, next on the list, we have one called pale banana. Now, I'm actually going to classify that one as a soft summer yellow. A soft summer yellow

sometimes can look almost like a little bit limeish. This one doesn't look like it's cream, It's not like that butter lemon that was out last year that can, when they're so light and they're so soft, they can almost veer into cream and then it becomes like, well, is it warmer? Is it cool toned? This pale banana is definitely cool toned, but you can see that it's got some grey mixed into it. It's a lot more delicate. It's a lot softer. Now, for me, in this kind of yellow, I would feel a bit flat.

As you know, I'm a light summer. I would feel a little bit flat in it. I do think that soft autumn could borrow it really, really nicely. and when I say that I feel flat in it, there are going to be other light summers who absolutely can wear it. Like there is a light shade of pink in a light summer, like really, really soft and delicate kind of baby pink. Now, I can wear that, but I have a member of mine who is a light summer and she finds that one too pale. She goes for the next shade of pink. So this is where colour analysis is all so personal to you and how the colours react and reflect on you

and how you feel when you put them on. So this pale banana, other summers could absolutely try borrowing it because it is a much softer version of a yellow, basically. The next one is called Mandarin orange. That is a warm spring orange. Warm autumns can also borrow it, but it is a really lovely, vibrant, literally like a Mandarin orange. It's exactly what it says it is.

Orange, as we know, is always a warm-toned color. If you want to make orange cool-toned, you have to mix blue into it. you mix blue into an orange, it becomes a brown. It may become like a warmer brown or even a cooler brown, depending on how much blue you mix into it. It will never be a cool toned orange. Orange is always, always, always, always a warm tone color. Now, the reason that I've put it in warm rather than bright spring, it's just, it's not a fluorescent kind of yellow. It literally is like a Mandarin. If you think of a Mandarin, that's the orange that it is, and it's definitely. a warm spring and warm autumns can borrow it. Now, the next colour, let's see if I can pronounce this

right, is called Amaranse, I think it is, if I've said that correctly. Now that's almost like it's not a burgundy, it's more of like a burgundy and a purple that's been mixed together. So I'm actually going to put that into deep winter. I think cool winters could also borrow it as well. Bright winters, you could borrow it too. However, you may feel a little flat in it. You may feel that it's just a little bit, it's not bright enough or intense enough for you. I also think that a deep autumn could borrow that colour as well because it's a sister palette to deep winter. It is, imagine like a great purple. Like, you know, I know I'm talking about fruit. But sometimes, like when I'm explaining things like this, it's really easy for me to say things that you can actually

picture. So when I'm talking about this colour, it literally is like, imagine a black grape in summer. That's exactly what this kind of colour is. It is beautiful. It's cool toned. That will be really, really lovely for summer. Like I can imagine you could put this with, but winters obviously you could put it with black if you wanted to. It'd love with navy. It's fabulous with denim. It would look great with white. And then you could start to put it with some other colors as well. Like you could, it literally is sitting right next door to a pink in like the screen that I'm looking at. You could absolutely put it with like a pink or even a pale blue. There are so many different colors that you could put it with.

But yes, imagine a black grape in summer. That's the kind of color that I'm talking about. But it's really, really lovely. And what I like about this so far is there is actually quite a mix of color palettes within these. Like I remember doing one last year. And I remember saying the soft palette, like, or soft summer, a lot, which is fabulous for that particular color palette, but it can make it a bit tricky for the others. So it's actually quite nice to see that there is a difference. The next one on the list

is called tickled pink. Now, this is very much a soft summer pink. There's me saying about I said softs so much in the last one, but this is. It is a soft summer pink. Soft autumns could also borrow it. But again, it's got quite a bit of grey mixed into it. That's why I've classified it as are soft rather than a light summer. A light summer is going to be more of like a baby pink. This is more veering towards, not a full rose pink, but it's on its way to that. And because it's got so much grey in it, it is more delicate, it is more muted and it's a really, really beautiful colour. But yes, that's the kind of pink that tickled pink is. And then next on the list, we have amethyst orchid. Now, I'm actually going to classify amethyst orchid as a warm

toned purple. I'm going to put it in light spring. So people can wonder like really a lavender's or purples, cool or warm toned, yes, same thing again. A cooler toned lavender is going to have more blue as the base and you're going to see a little bit more maybe ice in it sometimes to the lavenders or maybe a little bit more intensity of them. Whereas a warmer toned one, you can just see if you put them side by side, it's not that you can see the warmth as easily in a warm tone purple, but when you have it right next door, for example, against a cool, tone one and icy one, you can see it. You can see that it's got more blue mixed into it. It's definitely more icy. This one, it definitely has more warmth to it. It's got maybe a little bit more yellow mixed into it

to make it a little bit warmer. And the reason I've put it in light spring is because it's not bold and bright, light bright spring and warm spring, but it still has a bit more of an intensity to it than what, say, a light summer lavender would have. So it's a really lovely amethyst orchid. Now, again, a light summer can borrow it because it's a sister palette. The other spring pilots can borrow it as well. But it's really, really lovely. But you can definitely see at the moment, if you do log in and have a look,

it's right next door to tickled pink. And you can see that the tickle pink, that they're just, they're not harmonizing as well as what they can. And it's purely because they've both got different undertones. One is cool and one is warm. Now, the next one next to it is called Carriol. And that is exactly what you would imagine it to be. It literally is caramel. It is warm toned. It is beautiful. All of autumn's, all of springs could borrow that. It is absolutely stunning. It's one of my favorite colors. I cannot wear it to save my life. I absolutely love it. But unfortunately, I just can't wear it. It's just one of those colors. But it's a fabulous neutral. Think shorts, tanks, jacket. Okay, so the next color is called Dutch Canal. Now, my laptop has decided to make a really loud noise. all of a sudden, so I'm hoping you can't hear that. But if you can, then that's what it is in the

background. So this colour is called Dutch Canal. Now, it's a light summer blue, but it's not super pale. It's not like a real baby, baby blue, but it's not more of like your deeper, intense and one kind of colour either. It's like your mid-tone blue. And I can imagine this like in a white and blue stripe. I can see it with navy. You could pair it with lavender, with yellow, with pink. You could put it with denim, so many different colors that you could put it with. And it's just a really, really beautiful blue. It reminds me a lot, actually, and finally enough, the last two colors together, remind me a lot of a dress that I just tried on at Zara.

Now, it's not normally a store I shop at, but I popped in for something that my daughter was looking for just to have a look. And I saw this dress, and I just wanted to try it on for the cup because I absolutely fell in love with it. And it was a green and blue stripe. And the blue was just like this blue. It was so beautiful. Now, the very last colour in the London range of colours is called shale green.

Now, this is a really beautiful soft autumn, soft summer green. Now, I've said both of the softs together because it's fairly neutral between the two. I definitely think that both seasons can get away with wearing it. And I also think some seasons around it could also wear it too. So whilst it is a soft like autumn, let's say that, kind of green. I think light springs could also borrow it because it's not too autumnony and intense. It's just a really beautiful green. It doesn't have, it's almost like a sage kind of green. So it's not like a green grass green. It's not like an apple green. It definitely is more like

your sage kind of green. And it's absolutely beautiful. And like I said, it goes beautiful with the Dutch canal blue. You could wear it. If you were in autumn, you could wear it with that caramel color. if you were a soft summer, you could wear it with the tickle pink. There are so many different colors that you can wear with it. You could even put the pale banana with it. So this colour palette goes together really, really nicely, not at everything. I definitely think the brightest color out of all of this is the tea berry red. The rest are probably softer, paler kind of colors, but they're absolutely beautiful.

And just remember that just because, say, you're a light summer or a soft autumn or a cool winter, all those kinds of things, you can borrow from your sister palettes. That's why you have them so that you can borrow them. Okay, now moving into what they call the seasonless shades. Now, the seasonless shades, remember, are the ones that they say are more you're like your neutrals. So there's one called Angora. Now, that is a warm-tone bait. I can see the yellow sitting underneath it.

It is 100% a neutral for autumns and springs to wear. Really, really lovely. and we'll go with a lot of the colors that have been mentioned above, plus the colors that you already have in your color palettes and in your wardrobes anyway. The next one is called Palm. Now, that is a lime green. That is a warm autumn lime green. Warm springs could borrow it too.

Other autums could borrow it as well, but it definitely is a lime-toned green. 100% a warm-toned color because cool tones are just going to find that they start to turn yellow and green when they put that on. The next one is called white onyx, and I would say that's like a grey. It's a very, very soft tone grey. So lovely for summers in particular, like soft summer, light summer. Now, winters can borrow it as well, but it is a very soft toned grey. So anything that I find sometimes with soft tone grey, grey, sorry, not grains,

I do find that winters sometimes find it washes them out a little bit. So with that one, I would be a little bit more wary, especially if you like a bright or a deep winter, you may find that that particular color washes you out a little bit. Now, the next one's called chocolate truffle. That is an autumn chocolate. It's a very warm-tone chocolate. It's really, really lovely, but definitely warm tones. Now, it's not dark and intense. It's not like a, just like a deep autumn kind of color. So I actually think springs could borrow it as well. I think light spring you're going to find that it's too dark for you unless you put it on the bottom or you use it as like an accent kind of color, but otherwise, definitely.

a warm toned chocolate brown. The next one is called, if I'm pronouncing this right, either ever. And the only way to describe that, it's that duck egg blue. It's a really soft, muted blue. It is a soft summer blue. Again, summers can borrow it, all cool tones can borrow if they want to. It is absolutely a stunning blue. Like, I really, really love this colour. I find it actually a bit harder to wear just because of the tone that's got grey. And so for me, I can find it a little bit flattening for me. But I think for soft summer, soft autumn, other summers that can try it, absolutely. If you feel like me, it makes you feel a little bit flat.

You can put it on the bottom, put one of your colours on the top, and that's how you balance it out. And then last but not least, we have evening blue. Now, evening blue is like a deep navy, a very, very deep navy. Summers can get away with wearing it, but just bear in mind that some navies can be just too intense for us. They're just too dark and deep. And imagine like the deepest kind of the ocean where you can't see anything like that, midnight blue. That is what you're thinking about, like, you know, the ocean reflecting at night. That's what you're thinking about when you come to this colour.

So winters in particular, deep, some deep autumns will be able to borrow it, but otherwise it's cool tones all the way. and it's an absolutely stunning blue. There may be other navies out there that suit summer's better. Now, a bit like the red that we were talking about before, navy comes in so many different variations. So you will see some of this, but you're going to see so many different navies.

The one that's the closest to this at the moment, Seed Heritage here in Australia, they do a navy every single summer and they do their linen in this navy. It's a very deep, intense navy. It's beautiful, it's stunning. I love it. If I wore it from head to toe, it would be too much on me.

On a winter, it would feel amazing on them. So if you do want to wear it, just think about what you're wearing it with if it's not in your particular color palette. So let's move now to the New York color palette. And I had it open. So let me just get it. If I can get that working, there we go. Okay. So the New York color palette, like I mentioned before, is slightly different to the,

to what you're going to get on the London palette, sorry. So let's go through them, and already I can see definitely a variation of colours. Still some softer ones in there. There's a couple that are the same, but not many. And it's rare, actually, for you to get sort of the same. That doesn't happen that often. Okay, so the very first one they have is one called Acacia. Now, that is a lime green.

It's very, very warm, very yellow-based. I'm actually going to put that in warm spring this time. It is slightly brighter than the one that we were just talking about that was actually called Palm that was in the London like neutrals. So this one is definitely warm spring, warm autumn. Other springs can borrow as well, but very, very warm, yellow-based, lime green. Then we have a beautiful colour called Marina. This is a cool summer blue. It's really lovely. Literally, as you would imagine, it's Marina. It's nothing like the one that we were talking about in the London palette. Imagine like this one is like a deeper cornflower blue. That is the best way to

describe it. Again, it's a mid-tone blue, but it's darker, but it's not bright. It's not intense. That's why I've put it in cool summer and light summers, soft summers could borrow it. The next one we have is called musk melon. That is like a sherbetty orange kind of color and that's a light spring. So the oranges that sit in light spring, definitely are lighter than not as bold and bright. Like that Mandarin orange, that is bold, bright, intense. This isn't like that. It's like dialed right the way down. It's had a lot of white mixed into it. But it's more like that sherbet orange kind of color, really beautiful. And that definitely 100% sits in light spring. Now, the next one we have is called Alexandrite. And that is a really lovely cool tone teal.

I'm actually going to put that for all of summers. Teal, if you're not familiar, can be a really universal color. It can be almost like more of a neutral. Now, there are different variations of teal, just like you've got different variations of grays and different variations of navies, things like that. This one, all summers can wear it. I would even say winters can wear it too. It's a really beautiful one. I definitely wear this color. It's one of my favorites to where it's one of my best colors. If I had to pick a particular season to put it in, I would put it in light summer. But again, like we were talking about with navies, you will see variations of teals around. But this one isn't dark, moody and intense of something like you'd find in deep winter. It's definitely got

white mixed into it, but it's not bright. It's just a really lovely, like, mellow kind of teal that goes with everything. Now, the next one is called lava falls. Now, this is a red, but this is a warm-toned red, and I would put this into autumn. I think the majority of autumns could actually wear this kind of red. It is not bright and bold and happy and tense like you'd find in spring. It's definitely an autumn kind of color. This is the kind of red. You know what I was saying before about my daughter got a shirt and it was her kind of red. That's this kind of red. It's not bright and bold, but it's got a nice warmth to it. But you can just, if you imagine seeing a kind of red and you're like, I can just see a bit of warmth to that. It's like you're looking at a fire or something. Like,

it's really lovely, but it's not bright and bold at all. Really lovely. I think all autumns could actually wear this. I think it's a beautiful color, but I would definitely keep this in as like an autumn-toned red, but just remember what I said about reds before, that there's going to be so many different variations in the shops. Okay, the next one's called Dusty Rose, and Dusty Rose is in soft summer. 100%. The reason being, it's got a lot of grey mixed into it, it's got a lot of blue mixed into it. So it's very much a cool-toned color on a lot of people this would wash you out, but it's a very delicate pink, like we talked about. It's like that dusty rose kind of color. Soft summers absolutely rock this color and it suits them so, so well. For others, like I mentioned,

because of the gray and the blue, some might find it too cool-toned and it washes them out and some might find that it's just too pale and washes them out, but again, it's such a beautiful color on the right person. Now, the one next to it is actually called T-Rose. Now, T-Rose is the soft autumn equivalent. It's got a lot more coral-based to it. It's. So it's a lot warmer. It's a little bit more vibrant than the dusty rose as well. And that's the soft autumn version and just really, really pretty. Imagine putting that with like a blue that you have in soft autumn,

with some of the greens that you have in there, even some of the mustards. It would look so beautiful. Now, the next colour, we've actually got two that overlap, which I haven't had this before. The next one is called Amaranth, which is that grape color one that we were talking about. That's exactly the same one, that grape, you know, the black grape kind of color in summer. That's exactly the same in this one. And just jumping across to the final one, that burnished lilac, which was that cool-toned stone

mushroom color, they both feature in here, which I have, like I mentioned, I haven't had that before. So those two colors are the same. There's one that's slightly different. Whereas the London one had a caramel. The New York ones got one called burnt sienna. And that's a really lovely, soft autumn kind of. orangey, like burnt orange. So beautiful and so many warm tones can actually get away with wearing

this colour. It's not bright, it's not bold, it's not intense, hence why it's in soft, but it's just got that lovely hum of colour to it, for want of a better word of describing it. It's just absolutely beautiful, really, really lovely. Okay, and then we move on to the colours that are the neutral colours. Now, most of these look different. Yeah, they are different. Oh no, I take a, I take that back. Okay, so moving on to their seasonless shades, there's two that are the same in here. So we'll start with those, that white onyx color and the Angora color. So remember the white onyx color is a cool-toned color. It's like a gray, gray white. And then the Angora color is that beige color, a lot of yellow in that. They're the two that are the same. Now, the New York one has

one called Coffee Bean. This is a cool, tone chocolate. So if you remember the London one had a warm-tone chocolate, this is definitely a cool-tone chocolate. It is a winter chocolate. There is no hint of warmth in here. Literally imagine like the color of a coffee bean. That's exactly what it is. So all cool-tone seasons can wear that, but you may find, obviously, summers that it's too intense for you. If it's too intense, you can put it on the bottom or mix it, say, have a hint of this color with a bit of white. So you invert it so that the white is a predominant color and you only have a little bit of this as, say, an accessory.

kind of color or a handbag or a shoes, things like that. That's another way of using it. Then they have one called Rhodonite, if I've said that right, and that is a navy, but it's nowhere near as dark and intense. I would actually say this is a deep autumn kind of navy. It's a warmer toned navy. It's definitely lighter. It's nowhere near as intense as the deep dark one that we had before, the evening blue, I think it was called. Again, a lot of different seasons can wear this, But like we talked about before, there are going to be variations of navy, but this is definitely a much lighter navy. Then you have one called sycamore, and that is a warm autumn green. If you think of Christmas and think of a Christmas green, that's what this sycamore colour is.

Really, really lovely, really beautiful. You don't normally see this kind of green as much, actually, like in the weather seasons of spring, summer, so it's actually really nice to see that. And for the autumn colours, autumn colour palettes, I should say, sorry, this is really, really lovely. And then we have one called sage green. Now, this is a soft summer green. It's definitely got a lot of yellow to it, though. So whereas the other one had a lot more blue base, this one has a lot more yellow base.

It's actually quite a hard colour to wear. I've already, again, seen this in Seed Heritage. It almost verges on like a light car key kind of colour, like that army light colour. But again, it's a bit of a hard one to wear. So not all even soft autumns are going to be able to wear it. Some might find that it washes them out and some might find that it's just that too warm for them and that they can't get away with it. So that is a roundup of the colours that you're going to see in stores or coming in for

spring, summer, 2026. I love doing episodes like this. It's so much fun to talk you through. Make sure you go to the description box so that you can get the links to the actual article so that you can have a look. And it just gives you an idea of what's coming out. what you can be looking for, what potentially will be coming out in your color palettes or sister color palettes so that you can actually borrow so that you can also sort of plan ahead.

Like for me, I know that I'm wanting more summer dresses, different to the kind of summer dresses that I've got. And this is a whole other podcast episode that I'm actually going to be doing for planning for my wardrobe for spring, summer. But I can already see potentially like in the New York colors, there's not a huge amount in there for me in my color palette or sister color palettes. I could see the marina blue that I could use, but there were some potentially that I could wear from the London colour palette. And it's just a matter of actually seeing what's in stores

and seeing what I actually want to wear, what colors I want to add into my wardrobe, because I know that I've got quite a few colours, but what do I want more? Do I want more pink? Do I want a bit more green? Do I have enough blue? All that kind of thing. So we're going to talk about that in an upcoming episode. I hope you've enjoyed this. If you have, please let me know. So like it's really hard sometimes. You record these podcast episodes and I know people are listening because I can see it from my stats, which is amazing. And it just makes me so, so happy.

But I just, you put it out into the, into the world, into the universe and you're just not quite sure if what I'm saying is actually interesting to you. I mean, I can see all my stats that you listen, which is fantastic. Thank you so, so much for being here. But some feedback or a review would be amazing too. So thank you so much for being here. I hope you've enjoyed this week's episode. and I will catch you next week.

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