Fashion pulse: Norway - March 2026

Consumer prices (March)

Clothing and footwear prices in Norway rose 1.4 percent year-on-year in March, according to Statistics Norway (SSB), well below the +3.6 percent headline inflation reading. The gap — 2.2 percentage points — makes fashion the second-slowest-inflating major division in the Norwegian consumer basket; only Personal care and miscellaneous goods (−1.2 percent) printed more slowly, while Food (+1.6 percent), Education (+2.4 percent) and Furnishings (+2.4 percent) sit just above clothing in the ranking. Within the fashion basket, clothing (03.1) ran at +1.5 percent year-on-year, garments at +1.5 percent and footwear at +1.0 percent. March’s month-on-month rise of +3.1 percent for clothing and footwear is a standard seasonal rebound: prices fell 5.0 percent MoM in January as post-Christmas clearance cleared shelves, then recovered +1.8 percent in February and +3.1 percent in March as spring collections entered stores. On the three-month rolling average, clothing & footwear MoM is close to flat.