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The apparel market, read weekly

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Prices, fabrics, certifications and origin, captured from brand storefronts every week. Ask how our data can help you.

Week of 26 Oct 2026

Brand reports

What each brand puts on the market

A brand report lists the clothes one brand has on sale in one market in a given week, as the brand describes them: what each garment is made of, what it costs, where it was made and whether it claims recycled or organic content. The choices behind those clothes will show up in the brand's next annual report. Anyone who advises brands, a whole market or the public can follow those choices as they are made, and weigh in while they can still change.

AloFree this week
NL
Apparel products
3,394
▼ −616
Median price
€89
Netherlands
Brand composition
Plant20.2%MMCFs7.3%Synthetics64.4%Animal8.1%
€199 FreeWeek of 26 Oct 2026
Benetton Group
NL
Apparel products
3,804
▲ +34
Median price
€39
Netherlands
Brand composition
Plant52.6%MMCFs7.1%Synthetics30.0%Animal10.3%Others<1%
€199Week of 26 Oct 2026
Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
NL
Apparel products
2,027
▲ +6
Median price
€40
Netherlands
Brand composition
Plant36.4%MMCFs5.7%Synthetics56.7%Animal<1%Minerals<1%Others<1%
€199Week of 26 Oct 2026
This week in the market

What the market is made of, right now

Apparel products from 53 brands on their storefronts in Europe, the week of 26 Oct 2026. Every figure below is a count or a rate over all of them, not a sample.

Catalogue

Apparel products tracked

163,793
Apparel products
Brands
53
Market
Europe
Apparel products on brand storefronts in Europe, the week of 26 Oct 2026.
Price

What a typical garment costs

€39.99
Median price
7 Sep28 Sep26 Oct
Median price of apparel products in Europe.
Transparency

Composition disclosed

98.4%
of garments disclose a composition
7 Sep28 Sep26 Oct
Share of apparel products in Europe.
Claims

Who backs a recycled claim

10.6%
of high tier garments carry a recycled claim

The high tier claims least recycled content, on 10.6% of its garments. In the low tier, 12.7% of garments carry a recycled claim backed by a standard.

Certified and self-declared claims by price tier
CertifiedSelf-declaredNo recycled claim
Low tier24 brands · 101,617 garments
Mid tier17 brands · 52,297 garments
High tier12 brands · 9,879 garments
Share of each price tier’s apparel products in Europe.
Recyclability

What the blends are made of

27.9%
of blended garments are cotton and elastane (spandex)

Cotton and elastane (spandex) is the commonest blend, in 28,453 garments; cotton and polyester follows at 14.4%.

Blended garments by fibre pair
Cotton+Elastane (spandex)27.9% · 28,453 garments
Cotton+Polyester14.4% · 14,717 garments
Elastane (spandex)+Polyester13.7% · 13,979 garments
Elastane (spandex)+Polyamide (nylon)13.6% · 13,831 garments
Polyamide (nylon)+Polyester3.5% · 3,542 garments
Share of blended apparel products in Europe, named by their first two materials in alphabetical order.
Why Apparel Signals

See the shift before the annual report

Week to week, what brands list on their storefronts shows the decisions they make about materials: how much of it is synthetic, how many garments are blends that are hard to recycle, and how many disclose a country of origin.

Annual reports

How often
Once a year
What it counts
Tonnes of fibre bought or produced
Source
The company or an industry body
Detail
Totals by fibre, for a company or the industry

Apparel Signals

How often
Every week
What it counts
Apparel products on brand storefronts
Source
Each brand's own product pages
Detail
Composition, price and market of each product
Founder

Larissa Akemi

Chief executive of Apparel Signals.

Ten years as a data scientist in marketing and advertising.

Based in Amsterdam.

LinkedIn

Advisors

  • Beto Bina

    Co-founder of FarFarm, executive director at the Cristalino Ecological Foundation.

    FarFarmCristalino Ecological Foundation
    LinkedIn
  • Michell Zappa

    Founder and chief executive at Envisioning.

    Envisioning
    LinkedIn
  • Dorothy Gál

    Mentor at Google for Startups Accelerator, innovation researcher at nlmtd.

    Google for Startups Acceleratornlmtd
    LinkedIn
How it is made

Three steps, run every week

Every number on this site starts as one product page on one brand storefront. Here is what we take from it, and what happens to it before it becomes a chart.

crew-neck t-shirt
Crew-neck t-shirt
Adult · Tee · black
€39.00
blended material
Composition
cotton60%
polyester40%
Traceability
Caremachine wash 30°
Originnot stated
Recyclednot stated
Certifiednot stated
crew-neck t-shirt
Crew-neck t-shirt
Adult · Tee · black
€39.00
cotton60%
polyester40%
origin not stated

An illustration of the fields read from a product page. These five garments are drawn, not read, and no brand published them.

1Observe

Every listed product on 57 brand storefronts is recorded as it stands, on the same day each week, in every market a brand sells to. Not a sample and not a survey: the title, the price, the fibre split, the care and origin lines, exactly as the brand published them. Where a field is blank we record it as blank, because a missing origin is itself a finding.

2Standardise

Names, fibres and categories are mapped to one taxonomy, so a linen shirt counts the same whoever wrote the label.

3Compare

Weeks stack into a record, so a price move or a fabric shift can be read against the brand’s own past and against the market.

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