8 trendy colors for the fall-winter 2023-2024 season

If New York Fashion Week's Autumn Winter 2023/2024 collection is anything to go by, we can expect a nice mix of bright colors and more nuanced, even sober hues.
Not a fan of the total color block look? There's nothing to stop you using this season's trendy colors sparingly. Instead, create trendy accessories and jewelry to wear these hues in small touches.

Here's a quick roundup of this season's Fall Winter 2023-2024 trend colors for a stylish wardrobe and accessories.

What are the colors for winter 2023-2024?

Flamboyant red

A symbol of passion, boldness and energy, there's nothing like a bright red to face the winter doldrums. It's a cheerful color that can be paired with other hues to create a variety of looks, whether in combination with neutrals for elegant contrast or with complementary colors for bold style. Flamboyant red is perfect for catching the eye and standing out in a crowd.

Here are some creative ideas for making DIY jewelry with this powerful color:

• Creole earrings with cotton thread
• A macramé bracelet with set gemstone

How about gemstone jewelry, one of this season's jewelry trends? You can use red agate, poppy jasper, red jasper or sea bamboo.

Vitaminized orange

Vitality, dynamism, enthusiasm, energy and freshness... this bright, vibrant hue is the fashion trend of the season. It encourages joy and a positive attitude, and is suitable for both sophisticated and casualoutfits.
It brightens up looks and can be used as the main color or in small touches to add life to a more neutral color palette. It can be paired with brown and beige for a warm look, or with gray and blue for a bold style.

• Large gold and orangelink necklace
• Fancy ear rings with seed beads

Create a piece of jewelry with a gemstone such as carnelian, peach moonstone orfire agate. With these orange-colored natural stones, you'll be right on trend.

Subtle brown

This earthy color is ideal for adding warmth to a look. From brown to chocolate, through lighter shades like taupe or peppier ones like reddish brown, it's one of nature's autumn colors. Elegant and timeless, it can easily be combined with other colors (beige, black, white) without creating strong contrasts, or with bright colors (yellow, orange).

How about brown in your DIY jewelry? It's easy with wooden beads, cords or laces. Here are a few inspiring ideas:

• Pendant ear rings with wooden beads
• A bracelet with recycled glass beads

How about gemstone jewelry with a brown hue? Use a sun stone, tiger's eye, smoky quartz and jasper stones such as landscape jasper, wood jasper, picasso jasper or mocha jasper.

Sky blue

This luminous, soothing color evokes feelings of serenity and freshness. This color is versatile and can be combined with other colors to create different moods, whether in contrast with darker tones (red, yellow), neutral hues (white, beige) or in harmony with other shades of blue.

Here are some DIY jewelry designs that might inspire you:

• A bangle bracelet with Miyuki pearls
• Duo of blue elastic bracelets

For jewelry and accessories, consider blue chalcedony, lapis lazuli, apatite, larimar, anhydrite, sodalite, blue agate or Botswana agate.

Dark green

Often associated with nature, this is a deep, rich color that can add a touch of sophistication to a look. This color can be used in combination with other hues, such as gold, cream or brown, to create an elegant color palette.

Here are a few costume jewelry ideas you could make:

• Earrings with transparent acrylic beads
• Pendant ear rings with chain and marbled pearls

Opt for trendy jewelry with malachite, aventurine, amazonite, jade, ruby zoïsite, peridot, African turquoise or agates such as moss agate, Indian agate, tree agate or green agate.

Deep violet

Already Pantone's color of the year for 2022, violet is back again in our winter wardrobes. Deep and intense, it's as popular as ever. It adds a touch of mystic chic to an evening dress or casual outfit.

Here are a few ideas for DIY costume jewelry in violet hues:

• An elastic bracelet with large pearls in the shape of a curved tube
• A bracelet in tinted rose quartz and amethyst

With amethyst, lepidolite or purple lace agate, you should be able to make some pretty wow-factor natural stone jewelry!

Pale yellow

After this summer's fluorescent craze, the color yellow is easing into pale yellow for fall-winter 2023-2024. A striking contrast to this season's other hues. Pale yellow brings luminosity and warmth to the heart of winter.

• Fancy earrings
• A multi-rang wrap bracelet with leather cord

Citrine is the ideal gemstone to create a trendy piece of natural stone jewelry.

Silver grey

For Fall-Winter 2023-2024, we'll be loving all shades of gray. It's the reassuring, all-purpose color of the season, and can be worn as a total look without fear of overdoing it. It brings an elegant sobriety to the wearer. Silver-gray is a neutral color that blends perfectly with a wide variety of other colors, such as dark green, violet, white, black, powder pink or red.

Here are some creative and inspiring DIY jewelry ideas:

• An original women's bracelet with chevron beads
• Easy-to-create fringed ear rings

Use jasper, such as silver leaf jasper or sesame jasper, lava stone or hematite to create trendy DIY costume jewelry.