Vinted's revenues reached 1.1 billion euros in 2025, reflecting a 38% increase on the previous year, while users traded items worth a total of 10.8 billion euros in gross merchandise value.
I've made €900 in nine months by putting unwanted clothes up for sale My Vinted journey began in April 2025 while in the middle of my maternity leave. Amid a spell of frenzied spring cleaning in between naps and breastfeeding, I was forced to seriously contemplate my bursting wardrobe and heaving attic storage. Years of impulse buying and overspending on clothes had caught up with me and now,
There are some items that symbolise the gap between the person you want to be and the person you actually are. For me, that item is the leather trouser. Long the reserve of motorcyclists or try-hards (the Guardian in 2020: to buy a pair was to show the world that you were coping very badly with the ageing process), the trousers started to appear everywhere a few years ago.
I've loved sustainable fashion since my early teens, always more interested in stealing my dad's band T-shirts than anything remotely designer. Originally, it was a money-driven choice, but when I turned 15 I became acutely aware of the fashion industry's damaging impact on the planet and the unethical labour conditions behind high-street brands. I decided that wasn't something I wanted to be complicit in. Charity shopping became my favourite weekend activity and cheap, mismatched clothes began pouring into my ready-to-explode wardrobe.