Fast fashion/textiles: “France is completely out of step with Europe” (C. Girardier, Glimpact)

"France is completely out of step with Europe when it comes to the ecological transition. It is going it alone, whilst blithely ignoring the rules governing the functioning of the European Union”, said Christophe Girardier, president of Glimpact - a platform for measuring the environmental footprint of products and organisations - to News Tank on 21 September 2026.

He reflects on the recent enactment of the anti-“fast-fashion” law, for which France has chosen to apply its own method — Ecobalyse — rather than the methodological framework adopted by the EU for measuring environmental footprints; a “nonsense” that Christophe Girardier “deeply regrets”.

The French law, the “scope of which has been narrowed by senators”, defines “fast fashion” on the basis of two criteria: the breadth of the…