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France Moves to Outlaw 'Inciting' Thinness

Posted Apr 15, 08 1:50 PM CDT in World Science & Health Arts & Living 

(Newser) – France’s lower legislative body today approved a law banning the promotion of anorexic behavior, the Guardian reports. Applicable to magazines, advertising and the web, the law can impose up to a $47,000 fine and two years in prison for “excessively inciting others to deprive themselves of food." Directed chiefly towards pro-anorexic websites, the bill could have broad repercussions for fashion.

That thought does not please Didier Grumbach, president of the French Federation of Couture: "Never will we accept in our profession that a judge decides if a young girl is skinny or not skinny," he said. "That doesn't exist in the world, and it will certainly not exist in France."

Sources Guardian (UK), AFP

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Photo taken 07 September 2005 of a model presenting an outfit by Spanish designer Locking Shocking's Spring/Summer 2006 collection during Madrid Fashion week.   ((PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU/AFP/Getty Images))
A woman looks at a giant poster showing a naked emaciated woman, part of a campaign against anorexia by Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani, in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Sept, 25, 2007.   (AP Photo/Alberto Pellaschiar)
Picture taken 23 Jan. 2007 in Lille of Elize a 20-year-old woman posing in her apartment , northern France. Elize developed anorexia two years ago after she had gone on a diet in order to lose weight.   ((FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images))
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