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French lawmakers vote to slow down fast fashion with penalties (www.france24.com)
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France’s parliament on Thursday backed a string of measures making low-cost fast fashion, especially from Chinese mass producers, less attractive to buyers.

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I still don't understand how this would work - everything is staying the same production wise, workers are payed poorly, unsafe conditions, but the product will cost more? And then customers will pay more for their clothings and that will be used to push other, more sustainable manufacturers?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    That is my understanding as well, yes.

    I think there's some rhyme and reason to it: France has limited insight into random manufacturing operations somewhere in Asia, so it can't directly regulate there. That's especially true if the clothing is sold by a Chinese platform as well which I don't expect to care much about the EU supply chain regulation either.

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