French Legislation Prohibits The Promotion Of "Skinny Beauty"

The French National Assembly passed a breakthrough act on the 15 day to prohibit anyone from openly promoting the idea of "skinny beauty".

Violators will be fined or even punished.

"Models are getting thinner and thinner, and we are getting fatter and fatter. That's fashion culture."

Nina Garcia, fashion director of Elle magazine, said.

On the 15 day, the bill prohibiting people from advocating the idea of "thin is beauty" was strongly supported by the ruling People's movement Union in the French national assembly.

The bill will be submitted to the Senate in a matter of weeks.

France has been hailed as the birthplace of fashion, and "thin beauty" has always been the favorite of designers.

But recent surveys show that 4000 people are suffering from anorexia because of too much pursuit of "osseous". Most of them are women.

The daughter of former French President Chirac is also one of the victims.

In 2006, a female die in Brazil died of anorexia. Some governments made coercive measures to stop the use of ultra bone models in fashion. The French act is the strongest measure since then.

Buvaye, a conservative member who proposed the bill, said anyone who "encouraged others to fasting" should be sentenced to imprisonment or fines.

Encouraging dieting may be sentenced

The adoption of this proposal includes the provision that any propagandists who urge others to go on a diet to get a slimming effect and thus endanger the safety of the audience will be fined 30 thousand euros and 2 years in prison. If the audience dies, the penalty will rise to about 60 thousand euros, and the term of imprisonment will also rise to 3 years.

This has made France the first country in the world to use law to solve anorexia.

This bill is mainly aimed at some Internet media.

In particular, there are groups that spread the idea of dieting through the Internet and others advocating "hunger is a way of life".

Barcelo, a French woman who supports the bill, said: "in many blogs on websites, young girls and women have posted photos of their own thin skins on the Internet to encourage others to follow the example.

Fashion leaders are against it.

Doctors and psychologists responsible for the treatment of anorexia patients welcomed the French government's bill, but they also pointed out that it is not clear whether voluntary hunger is related to the image of starving people.

Earlier, French parliamentarians and fashion makers signed a non binding contract to publicize what is a healthy figure in society.

Last year, the Spanish government also made measures to prohibit thin models from walking on the stage.

At the same time, French fashion leaders are opposed to adopting laws to influence people's aesthetic standards.

Glenn Bach, chairman of the French fashion industry federation, said: "we will never accept that in our professional field, judges decide whether a young girl is too skinny.

There is no such thing in the world, and it certainly does not exist in France.

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