[Python] Error with pip install scikit-image

I am using Windows 8.1 64 bit and Python 2.7. While trying to install scikit-image from the shell

pip install scikit-image

I have encountered this error:

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in c:\users\france~1\appdata\local\temp\pip-buildtksnfe\scikit-image\

The download is fine but the installation fails. What is the problem here and how to solve it?

EDIT

After upgrading my pip with

python -m pip install -U pip setuptools

and trying again, I got:

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in c:\users\france~1\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-nbemct\scikit-image\

What is wrong?

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