Christmas trends 2026

With ten more months until Christmas it is time to get ready for a new festive season. Here are the Christmas trends for 2026.

Every year, for the last almost fifteen, twenty years, I have gone to the large decorative fair in Frankfurt called Christmasworld. It is part of the trio of fairs with Ambiente and Creativeworld, so you can imagine it is busy.

This year, I walked the aisles and looked at colours and shapes. By my side I had Helena Lyth, with whom I do the podcast “Under Granen” with. We are both Christmas enthusiasts but absolutely look at different kind of things. I think both Helena and I were happy to see that the good spirits were back. I could see some repetition from previous years like pets and specifically dachshounds. But still fun and new things.

Lets kick of by looking at things.

Christmas trees

Over a few years we have seen Christmas trees become more and more extravagant. Taking the center stage. It’s almost like it needs no decoration. It is fancy on it’s own. Here a tree that looks like the Grinch.

Also in white. But impossible to decorate with ornaments.

Last year we saw Christmas trees with feather like branches. This continues.

I also noted a sharper metallic look.

And also common to see trees built up by these red berries.

But in general – anything could be a tree.

Baskets…

A Ralph Lauren Christmas

Six months before Christmas 2025, almost noone had heard of “Ralph Lauren Christmas” and a few months later it was all over Internet. And of course we see references to this at Christmasworld too. “Ralph Lauren Christmas” is a pretty conservative, New England, blue, green, red, proper – and tartan. And teddybears. In recent years Ralph Lauren got a lot of attention for his sweaters with teddybears on – so of course for Christmas.

I must say – teddybears are everywhere!!

Santa is no longer holding an elf or a nutcracker – it’s always a teddybear.

Teddybears in suits.

I guess we are leaving “ugly Christmas sweater” and going into something more elegant.

Old world references like books.

Crests.

Tartan everywhere.

Fancy, is a key word for this “Ralph Lauren Christmas”, and I think this tree bottom, or the thing to hide the end of the Christmas tree is so elevated. Fun.

It’s funny to see how “everything” gets teddybear. Here two different brands doing the nutcracker as teddybear.

Blue

In one part of this “Ralph Lauren Christmas” we see a lot of blue. I think it is so new and dominant that I want to have it as a separate trend. So blue. I am personally very fond of the one we call “ultramarine”, “Klein blue” or “international blue”.

Beaded

This year a lot of the ornaments felt beaded. I wonder how long these extra sparkles will stay on the actual ornament.

Why not beaded croissants?

Flowers

We have seen flowers in Christmas trees before, but it felt like more is more. Proper bouquets with flowers in the tree.

And flowers in general.

Jellycat

Jellycat is a Londonbased brand very popular in Asia. The have toys that look like ordinary bears and animals, but what is unique with them is that they make ordinary object into plush toys. Basically put cute eyes and legs on everything. This esthetics felt new and I saw a lot of it.

Shoes

We have seen shoes for Christmas before. Both sneakers and highheels. And of course also for this year. But I am starting to see more of the classical loafer.

Tassels

Last trend. I could continue, but we need to try to keep this tight. I have not talked about garlands. Garlands will be huge. Decorate your window, your door or your tree. But no room here…

An early trend would be tassels. I think this will grow. Feels new and something people could love. Strong new esthetics.

So we didn’t have space enough to talk about this – but still something growing…

Food as ornaments. Not sushi, but perhaps more Americana.

There is absolutely a Japanese or Asian Christmas theme going on.

We didn’t talk about sizes. And yes, it will be bigger.

The animal print trend will continue. Perhaps in a different direction.

And I mentioned garlands. More, more, more, more…

And I didn’t talk about the Swedish glögg party we arranged… We will save that for another time.