Will Carla Bruni Be Arrested?

"Never will we accept in our profession that a judge decides if a young girl is skinny or not skinny. That doesn't exist in the world, and it will certainly not exist in France," declares Didier Grumbach, president of the French Federation of Couture. Grumbach is hotly contesting French parliament's decision to fine and/or imprison those who incite excessive thinness.

I'm not sure why, but his quote sounds especially sinister. I can imagine him meeting with other top fashion execs, Zoolander-style. They will sit around a stainless steel conference table and allow themselves 3 frozen grapes a piece while they discuss the fate of the female form.

This bill is reminiscent of Spain's 2007 decision to ban models with a BMI of less than 18. Fashion designers who held runway shows in Spain were furious when they did this. They claimed that this was reverse prejudice on skinny models. Seriously? Nobody is being prejudiced against models who are thin, just against those that are dying.

I think it's a little ironic that France might adopt a law that may have put the president's wife, Carla Bruni, out of work. Everyone knows she was a famous model during the 80's and 90's, but they may have forgotten how excessively thin she was.