Brat Green Makes Way For Chartreuse This Spring

It’s no surprise that chartreuse has emerged as one of the colors of the Spring season this year. After all, the yellow-green hue named after the French liqueur showed up on the runway in every city during the Spring/Summer 2026 season back in September and October last year. 

Now, we are seeing the color trend show up in real life as we shed our dark winter layers for something slightly more cheerful. The vibrant hue made a significant return in the zeitgeist when Gucci’s Fall/Winter 2023 show was held at the brand’s Milanese HQ, which is covered almost entirely in a yellow chartreuse carpet. The color showed up again a season later for Sabato De Sarno’s Spring/Summer 2024 debut, which featured lime chartreuse coats and short sets paired with burgundy leather—a color combo that is now being reported as the palette of choice for many 2026 brides! 

Then 2024 came, and Brat summer was upon us. Brat green was a small departure from a true chartreuse, but in the color family nonetheless, which had us clad in lime-toned accessories all summer long. The evolution of the hue for 2026 marks a growing trend of ditching the pastels for spring and embracing colors with warmer bases for a bolder approach.

On the Spring/Summer 2026 runways last year, we first noticed the color emerge throughout Tibi’s SS26 collection, which featured silky chartreuse peplum dresses and skirts, perfect for spring afternoons. Then in London, it showed up at Simone Rocha as satin pannier dresses and skirts; at Erdem as a chartreuse and green printed ballgown; and at Burberry, where it peeked out from a beige trench in the form of a matching button down set with embroidered details.

Over in Milan, Ferragamo showed a satin mini dress with matching shoes in the hue, alongside a chocolate silk slip dress with chartreuse lace trim and an accompanying chartreuse ostrich feather clutch, while at Prada, a glimpse was seen via a crumpled taffeta underskirt that came down the runway. In Paris, we had multiple chartreuse moments at Saint Laurent. Anthony Vaccarello’s airy nylon trenches and ballgowns were rendered in the green, and over at Balenciaga, Pierpaolo Piccioli created an oversized chartreuse coat and textured skirt, while at Valentino, Alessandro Michele offered it in ruched pencil skirts and fluid crepe trousers.

The trend is likely to carry throughout spring and into the late summertime, so there is plenty of time to invest in your own interpretation of the trend. Shop all our picks, below.