Despite having a frame so slender she was once dubbed ‘Skeletal Spice’, Victoria Beckham piously declared in 2010 that she was banning unhealthily thin models from her catwalk shows.
The 41-year-old has provoked a barrage of criticism, however, after seeming to backtrack on her promise and sending a slew of painfully skinny models down the runway at her show in New York on Sunday, which was attended by her husband David, 16-year-old son Brooklyn and American Vogue editor Anna Wintour.
Hundreds of Victoria’s 15 million-strong social media following made their feelings known to the designer, inundating her with messages about her choice of models.