Fashion pulse France - April 2026

Consumer prices

French headline CPI rose to +2.2 percent year-on-year in April 2026 per France's national statistics office INSEE, up from +1.7 percent in March — a 50 basis-point acceleration. The harmonised HICP rose to +2.5 percent in April from +2.0 percent in March per INSEE's Informations Rapides 115 (13 May 2026) — a 50 basis-point acceleration on the harmonised series as well. The European Union statistics office Eurostat's HICP dissemination for France lags by several months and only carries through December 2025; this article cites figures via INSEE's flash release. On the Eurostat back-series, the April 2026 reading is the first French HICP print above the European Central Bank (ECB) 2 percent target since August 2024 (+2.2 percent) — a 20-month gap. (March 2026 reached the 2.0 percent target exactly but did not exceed it.)