There are two key things I remember from being a preteen at the start of the 2010s: you could never have enough skinny jeans, and how badly I wanted to paint my bedroom in a bright teal and hot pink color block. Well, in 2026, jeans are rapidly slimming from wide-leg to straight, and as for color-blocking... could it too be making its comeback?
But Livingetc's color expert Amy Moorea Wong reassures me, "This won't be a rerun of the bright, clashing segments we remember from the color-blocked walls of the 2010s — this piece tangerine, an arc of teal here, and a chunk of bubblegum pink next to it." For 2026, thankfully, the trend will look a lot more considered.
