Violators of the new law will face up to six months in prison and a fine of over $80,000. That is, if the French authorities can even enforce it. Late last Thursday, the French government passed a new ...

French lawmakers are weighing a ban on extremely thin models. New legislation debated in Parliament Tuesday would require modeling agencies to get medical certificates from models proving that their ...

PARIS --France's Parliament has moved to make it a crime to use anorexic models or encourage anorexia, as authorities try to crack down on the glorification of dangerously thin women. Other countries ...

PARIS – France will ban excessively thin fashion models and expose modeling agents and the fashion houses that hire them to possible fines and even jail, under a new law passed on Friday. France, with ...

While France’s Health Minister Marisol Touraine may have had good intentions, she was quoted as saying, “This is an important message to young women, young women who see these models as an aesthetic ...

France is considering banning the use of anorexic models in the fashion industry. Legislation debated Tuesday in France's Parliament would require modeling agencies to get medical certificates from ...

Fashion models in France must be above a certain body mass index (BMI), according to recently passed bill. The bill, passed in April, is part of the country's effort to reduce the number of eating ...

France is considering banning the use of anorexic models in the fashion industry. Legislation debated Tuesday in France's parliament would require modeling agencies to get medical certificates from ...