France Introduces 'Photoshop' Law for Fashion Photography
Eating disorders are not unknown in the land of foie gras, and authorities there blame the fashion industry’s unhealthy fondness for starvation-chic. Thus the French law that recently went into effect decreeing that fashion photos be honest about their falsity.
If a commercial image has been altered, or “Photoshopped,” to make a model appear more svelte or zaftig, the photo must now come with a warning label giving the consumer the skinny. Without the disclaimer “photographie retouchée,” nipping and tucking a few pixels will be punished with a big, fat fine.
