Spring 2025’s Color Trends Are Reimagining Pastels in Favor of Something Fresher
These shades redefine the season’s typical aesthetic.


It’s never a surprise to see pastels on a spring fashion runway—just as it’s never shocking when garden florals start to sprout across retailers in early March. The spring 2025 color trends don’t break from seasonal convention; Loewe used the same muted pinks and baby blues of Monet’s waterlilies, while Chloé’s frothy gowns in pistachio and buttermilk looked like pâtisserie confections come to life.
But it’s worth noting that the pastel palette of spring 2025 feels significantly more punched up than past seasons. By choosing elaborate textiles and voluminous silhouettes that trick the eye, designers amplified the spring color trends to make them much more striking than a traditional subdued Easter basket.
Light lemon became luminescent via Prada’s shiny satin evening gowns and Loewe’s sparkly circle dresses that reflected light like mirrored scales. Stella McCartney’s fluffy mini dresses and Valentino’s feather-trimmed opera gown in mint green made the mossy color heaps more dramatic (the dress already made a red carpet appearance on Elle Fanning at the 2024 Governors Awards). Even pale pink, a hue synonymous with being modest and unconfrontational, was revved up as a statement-maker, courtesy of Khaite’s sheer, whipped organza dresses and Aläia’s low-rise bubble skirts and ballooning boiler suits.
Ahead, find a curated edit of items to shop and input on navigating 2025’s trending color combinations—which will take your spring fashion up a notch or two.
Sunbeam
The butter yellow trend had a benchmark year in 2024, popping up across the Fashion Month circle and later in Jennifer Lawrence's street style and Beyoncé's formal attire. The sunny shade carries on as a 2025 fashion trend, with credit to brands like Prada, Chanel, Chloé, Miu Miu, and many more for keeping the momentum strong.
Powder Pink
Powder pink, believe it or not, has the potential to pack quite the punch. Ferragamo honored the color's ballerina roots with sporty shrugs and pointe shoe-style pumps. Aläia and Khaite made pale pink feel provocative through revealing cutouts and sheers, while Loewe sent out a rose-colored hoopskirt dress that you'd expect to see down the Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole.
Cue Miranda Priestly's Monologue
Say it with me: cerulean. Bright azure—a saturated step up from the baby blues you'd expect to trend in spring—washed across the runways, making it a top contender for the zeitgeist's standalone color trend. Just look to Miu Miu Spring 2025, which includes leather jackets, A-line skirts, and sporty jumpers in dreamy Capri blue.
Tangerine Dream
Citrusy orange took on more of an in-your-face impact on the Spring 2025 runways. The tangerine color was luxurious in snakeskin leather at Bottega Veneta, quirky and cartoonish at Miu Miu, and ethereal at Burberry and Dries Van Noten.
Linchen
Among spring's standout pastel shades was a subdued light green—not all that dissimilar from a scoop of mint ice cream or honeydew sorbet. While Chloé, Stella McCartney, and Valentino's dresses are for fantastical and formal occasions, it's easy to imagine wearing Tory Burch's pumps or Dries Van Noten's wedge sandals in moss green to a simple spring soiree.
Caffè Mocha
Pantone's mocha mousse color trend was seen across the circuit, frothing up as ruffle middle skirts at Dries Van Noten and sleek leather tote bags and lace dresses at Fendi. Integrate the decadent shade into your spring work outfit rotation with a heeled ankle bootie and a smart blazer.
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Emma is the fashion features editor at Marie Claire, where she explores the intersection of style and human interest storytelling. She covers viral styling hacks and zeitgeist-y trends—like TikTok's "Olsen Tuck" and Substack's "Shirt Sandwiches"—and has written hundreds of runway-researched trend reports about the ready-to-wear silhouettes, shoes, bags, colors, and coats to shop for each season. Above all, Emma enjoys connecting with real people to yap about fashion, from picking an indie designer's brain to speaking with athlete stylists, entertainers, artists, politicians, chefs, and C-suite executives about finding a personal style as you age or reconnecting with your clothes postpartum.
Emma previously wrote for The Zoe Report, Editorialist, Elite Daily, Bustle, and Mission Magazine. She studied Fashion Studies and New Media at Fordham University Lincoln Center and launched her own magazine, Childs Play Magazine, in 2015 as a creative pastime. When Emma isn't waxing poetic about niche fashion discourse on the internet, you'll find her stalking eBay for designer vintage, reading literary fiction on her Kindle, doing hot yoga, and "psspsspssp-ing" at bodega cats.
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