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Fashion pulse: Indonesia - March 2026

Consumer prices (March 2026) Headline consumer-price inflation in Indonesia eased to 3.48 percent year-on-year in March, according to Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS), returning within Bank Indonesia’s 1.5 to 3.5 percent target range after February’s 4.76 percent spike. The February jump was largely a base effect, as a 2025 electricity tariff...

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Fashion pulse: South Korea - March 2026

Consumer prices (March 2026) Consumer prices (March 2026) Clothing and footwear prices in South Korea rose 2.1 percent year-on-year in March, according to Statistics Korea (data accessed via the Bank of Korea ECOS API), essentially matching the +2.2 percent headline inflation reading. Within the fashion basket, clothing prices rose 2.5 percent —...

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Fashion pulse: Australia - February 2026

Consumer prices (February 2026) Clothing and footwear prices in Australia rose 5.0 percent year-on-year in February, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), running 1.3 percentage points above the +3.7 percent headline inflation reading. Australia joins Sweden and China as one of only three markets in the Fashion pulse series...

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Fashion pulse: Austria - March 2026

Consumer prices (March 2026) Clothing prices in Austria fell 0.1 percent year-on-year in March, while footwear prices fell 1.6 percent, according to Eurostat’s Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) compiled from Statistik Austria data. The combined clothing-and-footwear basket (COICOP CP03) was down 0.4 percent year-on-year. Headline HICP...

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Fashion pulse: New Zealand - March 2026

Consumer prices (March 2026 quarter) Clothing and footwear prices in New Zealand rose 1.3 percent in the year to March 2026, according to Statistics New Zealand, moderating from +1.7 percent in the Q4 2025 quarter and running 1.8 percentage points below the +3.1 percent headline CPI reading. Unlike most OECD markets, Stats NZ publishes CPI on a...

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Fashion pulse: Switzerland - March 2026

Consumer prices (March 2026) Clothing and footwear prices in Switzerland fell 0.7 percent year-on-year in March, according to the Federal Statistical Office (BFS), continuing a six-month run of negative fashion inflation against a near-zero headline rate of +0.3 percent. Swiss headline inflation is among the lowest in the Fashion pulse country...

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Fashion pulse: China - March 2026

Consumer prices (March) Clothing prices in China rose 1.6 percent year-on-year in March, according to the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS), running 0.6 percentage points above the +1.0 percent headline inflation rate. Within the fashion basket, garments rose +1.7 percent and footwear +1.2 percent. The month-on-month reading for...

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Fashion pulse: Finland - March 2026

Consumer prices (March) Clothing and footwear prices in Finland fell 0.9 percent year-on-year in March, according to Statistics Finland (Tilastokeskus), while headline inflation rose 1.3 percent over the same period. The 2.2-percentage-point gap places the fashion category decisively on the deflation side of Finland’s price ledger. Within the...

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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...

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Fashion pulse: Sweden - March 2026

Swedish fashion is running at two speeds: prices are stable and inflation benign, but consumers have migrated decisively from physical fashion stores to online channels. Consumer prices (March) Clothing and footwear prices in Sweden rose 1.6 percent year-on-year in March, according to Statistics Sweden (SCB), well above the +0.5 percent headline...

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Fashion pulse: Colombia - March 2026

Colombian fashion retail is growing, but lagging behind the broader consumer economy. Consumer prices (March) The clothing and footwear component of Colombia’s consumer price index rose 2.61 percent year-on-year in March, according to Colombia’s national statistics office DANE — unchanged from February and 2.95 percentage points below the +5.56...

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Fashion pulse: Canada - March 2026

Consumer prices (March) Clothing and footwear prices in Canada fell 0.42 percent year-on-year in March, according to Statistics Canada (StatCan), even as headline inflation rose plus 2.39 percent. The 2.81 percentage-point gap between fashion prices and the overall consumer basket is structurally unusual for an OECD economy — Canadian clothing...