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What Would Happen if Fashion Were Taxed Like Cigarettes?

France is pressing ahead with a ‘game-changing’ bill that would impose a ‘sin tax’-style penalty on fast-fashion products as high as €10 per item by 2030.
A model wears a light brown wool scarf, a brown fluffy bomber jacket, a brown leather bag, outside Chloe, during Paris Fashion Week.
France is moving forward with a bill that could impose steep penalties designed to reduce consumption of environmentally damaging fast fashion, similar to the "sin taxes" levied on cigarettes. (Getty Images)

Regulation can often move at a glacial pace, but a French push to impose steep penalties on fast-fashion products has passed through the initial stages of the legislative process as swiftly as a

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Sarah Kent
Sarah Kent

Sarah Kent is Chief Sustainability Correspondent at The Business of Fashion. She is based in London and drives BoF's coverage of critical environmental and labour issues.

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