Trends · data through September 2026

Teen & Young Adult Apparel in New York

Iceflower tracks 244 stores from 19 teen & young adult apparel chains in New York. Cotton On grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Garage and Buckle.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
19
Tracked stores
244
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked teen & young adult apparel chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Cotton On and Garage sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Cotton On logo Cotton On - +17.0%
2 G Garage logo Garage - +11.2%
3 B Buckle logo Buckle ▲1 +6.2%
4 H Hot Topic logo Hot Topic ▲2 +3.0%
5 A Aéropostale logo Aéropostale - -0.3%
6 T Tillys logo Tillys ▲1 -1.1%
7 P PacSun logo PacSun - -2.9%
8 A American Eagle logo American Eagle - -3.1%
9 Z Zumiez logo Zumiez - -3.7%
10 H Hollister Co. logo Hollister Co. - -7.7%
11 S Spencer's logo Spencer's - -16.5%
12 M Mandee - -27.6%
13 U Urban Outfitters logo Urban Outfitters ▼3 -43.8%
14 A Ardene logo Ardene ▼1 -57.7%
  • American Eagle
  • Hollister Co.
  • Garage
  • PacSun
  • Brandy Melville
  • Aéropostale
  • Zumiez
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

244 tracked store locations in New York. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • American Eagle (42)
  • Hollister Co. (14)
  • Garage (12)
  • PacSun (15)
  • Brandy Melville (4)
  • Aéropostale (21)
  • Zumiez (27)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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