Styling · The Blue Edit
Icy Blue
Buy the shade that suits you, and wear it as if it were cream. One piece — let the rest of the outfit stay quiet.
Buy the shade that suits you, and wear it as if it were cream. One piece — let the rest of the outfit stay quiet.
Pantone gave 2026 to Cloud Dancer, a white. The shade actually taking the year is its cooler sister.
The runways got there first. Almost every pre-fall and spring show sent out at least one look in it — Altuzarra, Erdem, Acne, Valentino, Coperni, Fendi, Tom Ford, Gucci. Dresses, yes, but also suits, coats and blouses.
What makes it work is what it isn't. Navy is a uniform. Cobalt is a statement. This is a blue that reads as calm rather than a decision — Nordic, glacial, the colour with the temperature turned down.
The mistake is treating it as one shade. In the shops it hasn't arrived as a single pale ice at all: it's ice, sky, periwinkle, aqua, and a teal that's nearly water. The one that suits you is rarely the one on the runway, and the wrong pale blue drains a complexion faster than almost any colour.
So the rule is one piece, worn as if it were cream. Tonally, or against ivory, or with nothing else in the outfit asking for attention. This isn't an edit for building a glacier wardrobe — the gown, the knit, the dress, the blouse and the set.
Mine is the Khaite Everheart cardigan. Icy blue as cashmere is how it becomes a Tuesday rather than a theme — and a colour you only wear to things doesn't earn its place.— K.W., Editor-in-Chief
The knit, a cream trouser, no other colour. The blue is the jewellery.
The gown, a naked shoe, gold you already own. Don't add a second icy thing.
The silk set, a white shirt underneath, the same loafer as last week. Cool colour, ordinary hours.
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A pale blue column is still rare on a red carpet, and it photographs better than black. Rachel Gilbert, Galvan and Simkhai.
Embellished at the shoulder, clean everywhere else. The entrance without the disco.
Sequins that read like water until the flash goes off. Buy it when the night is the point.
Dustier and quieter than the Galvan. The one you can wear twice.
Where the colour stops being an occasion and becomes a wardrobe. Khaite twice, then Nili Lotan.
Cashmere, and the dearest thing here. Also the one you'll put on a Tuesday.
Boxy and cropped, which lets the colour do all the work.
Cable-knit cashmere in periwinkle. If you're going to own one blue jumper, this is it.
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The half that travels. Christopher Esber, Asceno and Cap d'Antibes.
Knitted mesh, open through. It isn't for everyone and it doesn't pretend to be.
Linen, halter neck, nothing else going on — which is exactly the point.
Cotton terry with a tasselled hem. Water, then lunch.
The quietest way in, and the one that goes under everything you already own. Self-Portrait and Oséree.
Cream lace on pale blue satin. Very pretty, and it knows it.
Lurex, so it catches light rather than absorbing it. The loudest thing in the edit.
Two pieces that work together and separately, which is the only reason to buy a set. Reformation and Leset.
Silk, two pieces, and the closest thing here to what people actually wear.
Cut on the bias, so it moves. Dinner, then breakfast, with the white shirt you already own.
Every piece in this edit, by the houses behind it. Explore them all.
Pantone picked a white and the runways picked its sister. Icy blue does everything a neutral does, and then one thing more — buy the shade that suits you, and wear it as if it were cream.— ESVRA