Fashion and interiors have always had a habit of borrowing from one another. The colours that appear on the runway often find their way into our homes a season or two later, while shifts in materials, pattern and even attitudes towards personal style tend to move surprisingly easily between the two worlds.
The Spring/Summer 2027 collections give us an early indication of where things might be heading next. After several years of interiors dominated by quiet neutrals, carefully coordinated palettes and an emphasis on timelessness, there seems to be a growing appetite for something a little less controlled.
Across the SS27 collections, designers experimented with unexpected colour combinations, translucent layers, metallic surfaces, tropical references and a softer kind of nostalgia. There was also a noticeable sense of individuality running through many of the collections. Rather than everything fitting neatly into one aesthetic, different influences were mixed together in ways that felt personal and sometimes deliberately mismatched.
It’s an approach that makes a lot of sense for interiors too. Our homes are increasingly becoming places to express individual taste rather than recreate a particular look, and wallpaper naturally lends itself to that kind of experimentation. Pattern, colour, texture and finish can completely change the atmosphere of a room, while customised and bespoke designs give us even more freedom to create something personal.
We’ve taken a closer look at five of the SS27 fashion trends we think have the most interesting potential for interiors, and how they could make the move from the runway onto our walls.
Surf Safari: Tropical Prints Meet Natural Materials
Escapism has always had a place in summer fashion, but for SS27 it took on a slightly different character. Tropical influences appeared alongside safari-inspired utility, earthy colours and natural materials, creating something that felt adventurous without becoming too literal.
Rather than head-to-toe holiday dressing, the trend is more about borrowing individual elements associated with warmer climates and travel. Sun-faded colours sit alongside tropical prints, while relaxed silhouettes and practical details are balanced by woven materials and tactile surfaces. There’s a nostalgic quality to it too, somewhere between an old travel photograph, a vintage resort and the slightly faded colours of something that has spent years in the sun.
In interiors, the same feeling can be created through material as much as pattern. Rattan, bamboo, dark woods, linen, leather, woven fibres and stone immediately bring warmth and texture to a room. Adding tropical wallpaper gives the look another layer, particularly when the pattern is treated less as a theme and more as part of the overall mix.
A large-scale palm or botanical mural can create a sense of escape in a bedroom or living room, while smaller repeating patterns work particularly well when combined with natural furniture and textiles. More muted colourways can make tropical imagery feel sophisticated rather than overtly summery.
There is also no need to keep everything light. Deep greens, tobacco browns, dusty blues and warm terracottas can give botanical wallpaper a richer, more atmospheric quality. Paired with aged woods, woven furniture or even polished metal, the result can feel collected and well-travelled rather than designed around one particular trend.
The key is not to recreate a tropical destination literally. Instead, take the colours, materials and sense of escapism that make those places appealing and use them to create an interior that feels relaxed, warm and slightly adventurous.
Layers of Transparency: Creating Depth Without Heaviness
Transparency has been building across fashion for several seasons, but SS27 showed how much more interesting it becomes when it is used as a layer rather than as a statement in itself.
Sheer fabrics such as chiffon, organza and gauze were placed over more substantial materials, allowing colour, texture and construction underneath to remain visible. The effect created silhouettes that felt light and almost suspended around the body.
The interesting part of this trend is the depth it creates. Instead of looking at one surface, you are looking through one material to another.
That idea translates beautifully into interiors.
Sheer curtains are perhaps the most obvious starting point, but translucent materials can appear throughout a room. Frosted and fluted glass, lightweight screens, semi-transparent textiles and translucent room dividers can all be used to create layers without blocking light or making a space feel closed in.
Wallpaper can become particularly interesting when it forms part of these layers.
We often think about a wallpapered wall as a finished surface that needs to remain completely visible. But partially obscuring a pattern can make it feel much more atmospheric. An abstract wall mural seen through a sheer curtain changes as the fabric moves. Pattern behind fluted glass becomes distorted and abstract. A colourful wallpaper viewed through a translucent screen becomes softer and less defined.
Light becomes part of the design too. During the day, natural light can reveal different parts of the pattern, while in the evening lamps and softer lighting can completely change how those layers appear.
It is a useful approach for anyone who loves pattern but doesn’t necessarily want it to dominate a room. Rather than reducing the scale or choosing something very neutral, the wallpaper can remain expressive while the materials placed in front of it soften the overall effect.
All That Shimmers: Metallics Become Everyday
Metallics, sequins and glossy surfaces made a noticeable return across the SS27 collections. After several seasons where texture often meant something matte, natural or deliberately understated, reflective materials suddenly felt exciting again.
The difference is in how they are being used.
Shine no longer necessarily means dressing for an evening out. Metallic fabrics are appearing alongside relaxed silhouettes and everyday pieces, while glossy finishes are being mixed with materials that would traditionally be considered much more casual.
The same shift is happening in interiors.
Metallic finishes can sometimes carry the reputation of being glamorous or formal, but they become much easier to live with when treated as another texture within a room. Polished steel beside timber, reflective glass against linen or lacquer combined with something aged and imperfect immediately makes the contrast more interesting.
Wallpaper is one of the simplest ways to experiment with this idea because metallic surfaces interact naturally with light.
Unlike a flat printed colour, metallic wallpaper changes throughout the day. A detail that looks subtle in the morning can catch the afternoon sun, while evening lighting can reveal parts of the design that were barely noticeable earlier.
That doesn’t necessarily mean covering an entire room in something highly reflective. Metallic details woven through a botanical, abstract or geometric pattern can provide just enough contrast. Gold can add warmth, while silver and cooler metallic finishes can feel surprisingly modern when paired with stone, dark timber or soft neutral fabrics.
There is something appealing about allowing shine to become part of everyday interiors again. A room doesn’t need to be formal to contain something beautiful or slightly extravagant.
Allotment Core: The Garden Moves Indoors
The romantic, homespun side of fashion isn’t disappearing for SS27, but it does seem to be evolving.
Where cottagecore often leaned heavily into an idealised version of rural life, Allotment Core feels a little more practical and relaxed. Gingham, stripes, aprons, soft florals and natural fabrics suggest the garden rather than the country manor. The colours are gentle and cheerful: leafy greens, butter yellows, faded pinks and sun-washed neutrals.
There is something deliberately unpolished about the trend. Clothes look as though they could actually be worn while gardening, cooking or spending a long summer afternoon outside.
That sense of informality is what makes it particularly easy to translate into interiors.
Instead of creating an entire room around a nostalgic theme, individual elements can be layered gradually. Painted wooden furniture, wicker baskets, linen curtains, collected ceramics, checked textiles and botanical wallpaper all work naturally within the look.
Wallpaper can help establish the garden connection without requiring a room to become overly rustic. Small-scale florals can bring pattern into kitchens and bedrooms, while stripes and checks offer a less obviously botanical alternative. Designs inspired by leaves, herbs and garden flowers can create the same connection with nature in a slightly more contemporary way.
It also suits rooms that naturally lend themselves to a more relaxed atmosphere. Kitchens, breakfast rooms, utility spaces and smaller bedrooms can all handle a little pattern and imperfection particularly well.
And unlike some of the more romantic interpretations of cottage style, everything doesn’t need to match. A striped wallpaper can sit alongside floral textiles. Old wooden furniture can be paired with something contemporary. Different greens can be layered rather than carefully colour matched.
The aim is for the room to feel as though it has developed over time.
Colour and Texture: Unexpected Combinations Take Over
Perhaps one of the most exciting shifts coming through SS27 is a willingness to be less sensible with colour.
For a while, both fashion and interiors have been dominated by palettes that are very carefully considered. Colours either match, complement one another or sit comfortably within the same tonal family.
SS27 is beginning to loosen those rules.
At Copenhagen Fashion Week in particular, slime green appeared with turquoise, pink was placed alongside bright blue, and butter yellow turned up in combinations that might sound questionable when written down but somehow worked when seen together.
The point isn’t necessarily to find the next fashionable colour. It is about becoming more comfortable with colours that don’t immediately appear to belong together.
For interiors, wallpaper can provide an ideal starting point.
A patterned wallpaper already contains a palette, but there is no reason every other element in the room has to be taken directly from it. In fact, introducing one colour that seemingly has nothing to do with the wallpaper can often make a room much more interesting.
An earthy wallpaper combining terracotta, cream and deep green might suddenly feel much more contemporary when paired with an electric blue chair. Soft pink upholstery could sit beside acid green accessories. A traditional floral could be placed alongside something unusually bright or graphic.
Texture makes these combinations even richer. Gloss beside linen, velvet against rough plaster, metallic surfaces alongside natural wood and patterned walls against transparent fabrics all prevent colour from feeling flat.
It is less about creating the perfect palette and more about building a room from things you genuinely like.
Personalisation Is Becoming Part of the Trend
There is another idea running underneath many of these SS27 trends: a growing interest in individuality.
Fashion has increasingly moved away from the idea that everyone needs to subscribe to the same single aesthetic, and interiors appear to be heading in a similar direction. After years of seeing highly recognisable interior trends repeated across social media, spaces that feel individual are becoming much more interesting.
This is where custom and bespoke wallpaper become particularly relevant.
Customisation can be as simple as changing the colours of an existing design or adjusting its scale so that it works better with the proportions of a particular room. A pattern could be enlarged to create more impact across a large wall, softened for a bedroom or recoloured to work with furniture that is already in the space.
Bespoke wallpaper takes that idea further by allowing entirely new artwork to be developed for a project.
It opens up possibilities that simply aren’t available when choosing only from existing designs. A mural can be composed around the architecture of a room, important parts of an artwork can be positioned around doors and windows, or a colour palette can be created specifically to work with existing furniture, textiles and materials.
As interiors become increasingly personal, this ability to adapt the wall rather than design the entire room around an existing wallpaper is likely to become much more important.
How to Bring SS27 Trends Into Your Home
The most useful thing about looking at fashion trends isn’t trying to recreate every one of them. It is noticing the ideas that make you look twice.
If you love the escapism of Surf Safari, that might mean introducing a botanical mural and combining it with natural woods and woven materials. If All That Shimmers feels more appealing, a metallic wallpaper or reflective detail might be enough to change how light moves around a room.
Layers of Transparency could be interpreted simply through sheer curtains in front of a patterned wall. Allotment Core might mean a small floral wallpaper in a kitchen rather than redesigning the entire room around cottage style.
And the Colour and Texture trend might be the easiest of all: choose one colour you wouldn’t normally put in the room and see what happens.
Trends are much more useful when treated as inspiration rather than instructions.
