The legislation focuses on two elements of the fashion industry that have long drawn criticism for their effects on women and, especially, girls: ultra thin models and the use of Photoshop to make women appear impossibly thin in advertisements.
The measure has been controversial within Israel for raising the question of where free speech bumps up against the fashion industry’s responsibility — and its possible harm — to its customers’ psychological wellbeing. It has also raised the question of whether other countries might consider similar measures to address what many activists consider a root cause of an epidemic of anorexia and other eating disorders.
About time someone had the intestinal fortitude to stand up against this form of brain washing. We need to see real people not girls who have been photo shopped to look reed thin.Teenagers are starving themselves and doing harm to their bodies by not eating or eating so very little. This is having a large impact psychically and mentally, not wonder they aren’t coping.