UPDATED: 14 of the Biggest Trends From NYFW for Spring 2027

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Another stellar New York Fashion Week has come and gone and there is so much to talk about! Overall, it felt like there was a looseness and ease to the clothes that walked the runway for Spring 2027. Silhouettes were relaxed and proportions often exaggerated. Some designers, including Brandon Maxwell, Fforme’s Francis Howie, Prabal Gurung, and even Ralph Lauren, took a more minimalist approach, focusing largely on silhouette and fabric with few surface embellishments, while Monse, Carolina Herrera, and Thome Brown went more maximalist. Even Khaite — New York’s reigning queen of slick sophistication — seemed to play a lot more this season with surface decoration and three dimensional flourishes in the form of floral embellishments and wavy-edged cuffs, hems, neck and waistlines.

There was plenty of structure as well. Menswear shirting and suit separates appeared throughout and there was a strong emphasis on stripes — both bold and pin— which were the perfect balance to the season’s inevitable glut of florals.

New York kicks off a month of fashion shows across the globe, so it will be interesting to see which of these trends has legs overseas. But whether or not designers in London, Milan, and Paris fall in line with what New York is putting forward, it was a strong season overall, full of some incredibly desirable, interesting, and quite wearable clothes.

Here’s a rundown of some of the top trends.

1. Prep Remix

It’s prep, but with the volume turned up, which is to say it’s less about how actual preppy people dress and more like how a costume designer would dress characters for a Netflix show about rich kids at an East Coast private school.

Tommy Hilfiger Spring 2027

Thom Browne Spring 2027

Romeo Hunte Spring 2027

Brooks Brothers Spring 2027

2. This Windbreaker + Skirt Combo

Khaite offered the chicest interpretation of this sporty hybrid look, but it really was everywhere this season. Perfect for when you want to look femme in inclement weather.

3. See-Through Pencil Skirts

I see London, I see France… gurl, I can see right through your skirt! Sometimes the skirts were sheer, sometimes they were full of holes, or covered with embellishments, but whatever the case, they were almost always worn with a longer top to cover up the wearer’s bits. Except at Thom Brown, where an embroidered and strategically placed dragonfly served as a sort of entomological merkin.

4. Bubble Hems

This is probably one of the hardest looks to pull off without either looking sloppy or like you’re in need of a diaper change and yet… designers this season made some very good arguments for its return. Ulla Johnson seemed particularly enamored with the silhouette, sending out at least five bubble-bottomed looks over the course of her 47-look collection.

5. Open Knits

Sweaters and sweater dresses for Spring feel absolutely diabolical given how hot its been (and will continue to be thanks to global warming), but at least these options allow for plenty of airflow. They look nice, too.

6. Extra-Long Fringe

You know, the kind that is absolutely guaranteed to get hopelessly tangled the first time you wear it. Chic, though.

7. Hammered Gold

Metallics make an appearance every season, but this time around they look more luxurious thanks to darker tones and an assortment of textures that play with light, rather than just reflecting it.

Ralph Lauren Spring 2027

Coach Spring 2027 (Luca Zanoni)

Fforme Spring 2027

8. Pinstripes

This staid menswear suiting staple was everywhere this season, almost always in the form of fantastically draped and flowing wide-leg trousers and matching vests or jackets. Except at 7 for All Mankind, where it was tight and sexy in the kind of early 2000s way that Gen Z seems so obsessed with these days.

9. Daytime Satin

Satin? For day? Yes! At least that’s what designers from Altuzarra to Calvin Klein, Tory Burch, and Sandy Liang seem to be suggesting. Satin is, of course, criminally difficult to keep clean and is liable to snag if you so much as look at it the wrong way, but that just makes it all the more decadent.

10. Neo-Calvin Klein

This season, designer Veronica Leoni showed probably her best collection yet for Calvin Klein — quite the turnaround following her almost universally maligned Fall 2026 offering back in February. The first part of the show was especially strong and felt much more in keeping with the DNA of the brand than her previous attempts, but Leoni wasn’t the only designer channeling old Calvin this season. Brandon Maxwell — who we hear actually interviewed for the design job at Calvin and was rejected in favor of Leoni — Francis Howie of Fforme, Ralph Lauren, and even Prabal Gurung, seemed to be inspired by the master of minimalism and, not that it’s a contest or anything, but, in many instances, they kind of ate Leoni’s lunch. Especially Maxwell and Howie, whose collections, on the whole, looked like exactly what Calvin Klein should be, but hasn’t always been — sleek, sexy, sharp, minimalist, cool, modern, and unfussy.

11. Chemise Plusse

My toxic trait is seeing these fabulously beefed-up striped menswear shirts and thinking,”I can totally DIY that myself.” Someone probably can. I cannot.

Monse Spring 2027

Zankov Spring 2027

Aknvas

Ralph Lauren Spring 2027

12. Prairie Glam

It’s very Laura Ingalls Wilder if she was an influencer.

Altuzarra Spring 2027

Ralph Lauren Spring 2027

Khaite Spring 2027

Christian Siriano Spring 2027

13. Curves for Days

So many designers embraced these whimsical — if slightly unwieldy — curvy, ruffly shapes on the edges of everything from jackets and bustiers to cardigans and skirts and the results are as romantic as they are playful.

14. Lesbian Wedding

Not that lesbians are a style monolith or anything, but you see it, right? And there really is no higher compliment than having your clothes chosen for a chic lesbian wedding. A lesbian anything, really. Lesbians are, simply, the best. Always and forever. This particular aesthetic thrust also feels like the natural continuation of one of last season’s most dominant trends: the tuxedo.

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