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France clamps down on ultra-thin models with new bill

French lawmakers on Thursday adopted a bill forcing ultra-thin models to furnish a doctor's certificate confirming they are healthy and magazines that Photoshop their silhouette to tag the images as "touched up". The bill stipulates that models must obtain a medical certificate stating that their health, "assessed in particular in terms of body...

Fashion

France bans ultra-thin models

French deputies on Friday voted to ban ultra-thin catwalk models, despite howls of protest from modelling agencies in the world's fashion capital. "Anyone whose body mass index... is below a certain level will not be able to work as a catwalk model," according to the amendment voted in the National Assembly lower house of parliament. Agencies...

Fashion

Anorexia spurred on by fashion magazines

A study of 3,000 women in the UK and Europe found young women, who account for 90 per cent of anorexia cases, were influenced by the size and weight of their peer group. LSE academics conducting the research believe restricting the use of photographs of underweight models in magazines would help ease the pressure on women to be very thin. LSE...