France fines 35 modeling agencies in decade of price fixing

France fines 35 modeling agencies in decade of price fixing | iNFOnews.ca
A model wears a creation for Chloe's Spring-Summer 2017 ready-to-wear fashion collection presented Thursday Sept. 29, 2016 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

PARIS – France’s anti-competition regulatory body has fined 35 modeling agencies over a decade-long practice of fixing prices, saying the tables established each year were illegal.

Thursday’s decision came in the midst of Fashion Week, a particularly intense time for both modeling agencies and the men and women who work for them.

The agencies were fined a total of 2.4 million euros ($2.7 million). A total of 37 companies were implicated in the case but two have since discontinued operations.

According to the decision, the agencies used the models’ salaries as a base and built in a markup of 30 per cent in the prices passed on uniformly to clients.

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