Fashion Week is always a rush of street style poses, backstage beauty, and front-row star spotting (And, hot tip: sneakers tucked in your bag for the commute). And yes, the whole point is picking up style cues for the upcoming season, but this year we’re also picking our 2026 winter manicure trends straight off those runways.
In Milan and London, Calcaterra, Prada, and Burberry all showed collections featuring a lush, deep teal (which also happens to be our most pro-recommended nail color this winter), while Calvin Klein and Lanvin runway-inspired nails make gray the official neutral of the season. For brighter manicure lovers, the butter-yellow trend has evolved into a rich, ochre honey, and mauve is the unexpected breath-of-fresh-air pink straight from Valentino and Sandy Liang’s fall/winter collections. The red manicure is back again (with the red makeup trend to match), but this time it’s a rusty, vintage-inspired red. And camel-trench beige and milky jade look just as gorgeous on our nails as they do on red carpets.
Even if you didn’t score front row at the Chanel show (that’s okay, us too), you can still get a piece of the glamour with a Fashion Week-inspired manicure. Ahead, our experts predict winter’s biggest nail color trends direct from the runways of New York, Milan, London, and beyond.
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