Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Skinny Bitches Illegal in France?

We are SO moving! The French parliament adopted a bill today that would make it illegal for anyone — fashion magazines, advertisers and *gasp* Web sites — to "publicly incite extreme thinness." Surprisingly (and by surprisingly we mean not even a little), couturiers are opposed to the idea.

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

Where the line would be drawn was not said. The bill will go before the Senate in a few weeks.

[Yahoo!]