Clothing & Textiles - Europe
Europe clothing industry directory — European clothing and textile suppliers by category.
Search the Europe database for clothing and textiles. You can search by various fashion categories such as shoes, hats, leather fashion accessories, men's clothing, women's clothing etc. This section will provide results from European suppliers of clothing, footwear and fashion accessories.
Europe Clothing Industry
Finding European Clothing Suppliers
A category search is the right starting point when the product is decided and the country is not. A buyer looking for women's clothing, men's clothing, hats or leather fashion accessories can work through European suppliers by what they make, compare the kinds of businesses that appear under each category, and only then narrow the list by country, using the country directories linked from the Europe hub above. That order matters in Europe because the same garment category is made in many countries, at very different scales, from large textile groups to small specialist workshops.
Clothing and textiles are two halves of the same search. The clothing listings lead to companies that make and supply finished garments. The textile listings lead to the companies behind them: the mills and fabric suppliers whose cloth the garment makers buy. A buyer developing a new line usually needs both, and the dyeing and finishing a fabric receives is part of the specification, not an afterthought, because it decides how the finished garment looks, feels and washes.
References & Further Reading
Working With European Suppliers
When you approach a supplier found through a category listing, the useful first questions are concrete: which categories and garment types the company actually produces, whether it works in knitted or woven fabrics or both, what its minimum quantities are, and which markets it already supplies. Keep the category language from your search in the enquiry itself, since a supplier listed under textiles and a supplier listed under clothing answer different parts of the same order. For shoes and leather goods specifically, use the companion page linked above, which searches the same Europe database for footwear and leather apparel.
Common Questions
What can be searched in the Europe clothing and textiles database?
You can search by various fashion categories such as shoes, hats, leather fashion accessories, men's clothing and women's clothing. This section provides results from European suppliers of clothing, footwear and fashion accessories.
Where do the clothing and textile company listings lead?
The reference links below lead to the Europages listings for clothing companies in Europe and for textile companies in Europe, where European suppliers present their own businesses by category. For footwear and leather specialists, this section also links to its companion page, Shoes & Leather Companies - Europe.
How does this page relate to the country directories?
This page searches Europe by product category rather than by place. If you know the country you want, the Europe Clothing Industry Directory hub links to 33 European country directories; if you know the product you want, start here and narrow by category.