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 ...

France will look to finish unbeaten in Group F play when they battle Panama in the final group stage matchup a2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia on Wednesday. A win will propel France to the ...

A model presents a creation by French designer Lea Peckre as part of her Spring/Summer 2015 women's ready-to-wear collection during Paris Fashion Week September 23, 2014. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/Files ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 could become the latest country to ban the use of underweight fashion models. France's health minister says she supports a proposal that would criminalize advertising that features ...

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 ...

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 ...