“SS27 Color Stats” by sarahconstantin

It's October, so it's time for color frequency statistics on the spring/summer fashion ready-to-wear collections! Previous entries: FW26, SS26, FW25, SS25, FW24, SS24. My methodology hasn’t changed — it's still automatic color scoring using the same script, using a call to GPT-4o. This year I didn’t do manual color counting because, let's face it, it was kind of an insane time sink. The Results Top automated color countsTop automated non-neutral color counts This is a big change from previous years — it's much more neutral, and in particular it's dark. The 4th most common color is “jet black”, which has never appeared in the top-30 of a spring collection before. We’re continuing the dramatic shift into darkness of this past fall collection. For comparison, here's SS26's top colors: SS26 top automated colorsSS26 top automated non-neutral colors Notice that red, usually a fairly common color, has moved way down from 6th place to 24th. Non-neutral colors in general have moved down the rankings, while dark neutrals like “jet black”, “charcoal black”, “charcoal”, and “charcoal gray” are taking over. Comparing SS27 to SS26, the biggest winners and losers are as follows: New (present in SS27 top-30 but not SS26) [...] --- Outline: (00:42) The Results (04:15) Economic Trends (04:59) My Pick for 2027 Color of the Year: Jet Black (07:01) Personal Reflections The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: October 7th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/g3iaGEHqu87Tssggz/ss27-color-stats --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.