Fast fashion's business model means firms 'cannot claim to operate sustainably', expert says
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FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to Sarah Kent, Chief Sustainability Correspondent at the Business of Fashion, about the bill being debated this week in the French Senate that seeks to regulate the influx of low-quality clothes into the country. She says that fast fashion firms' business model means they cannot claim to operate sustainably.
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