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, but her recent show, the reverse was the case.
Victoria Beckham, seen here at her fashion show in New York
41-year-old Victoria Beckham who declared in 2010 that she was banning unhealthily thin models from her catwalk shows, has provoked a barrage of criticism, 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, son Brooklyn and American Vogue editor, Anna Wintour.
Victoria’s 15 million strong social media following made their feelings known to the designer, inundating her with messages about her choice of models.
"Another show of skeletons," one remarked, while another pointed out: "They don’t look healthy at all."
All of the models look in need of a good meal and a joke book to remove the unrelenting scowl from their faces.
Her decision to use scrawny-looking 17-year-old Peyton Knight to close the show enraged her fans the more as the model is just one year older than the minimum age recommended for catwalk shows by the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
Son Brooklyn was next to husband David and Anna Wintour at the fashion show
"You need to feed this girl... Please give her some food," begged one, while another demanded furiously: "Jesus, why don’t you just get a motorised skeleton to walk down your catwalks and release these poor girls from this bloody torture of having to starve themselves for a job."
Despite the criticism online, Beckham said after the show: "It’s a collection for all shapes and sizes — I always say it, but I just want women to feel like the best versions of themselves."
The young models all seemed to share the same two identical physical traits. 1) They were painfully thin. 2) They looked painfully miserable.
Arsenal supporter, ex CNN News anchor and Dailymail UK columnist, Piers Morgan, has dedicated an entire post on Mailonline's website to frown at Victoria Beckham's choice of models. He titled the post, "Stop with the miserable skinny models, Victoria - this is NOT how we want the world’s young women to look." Click here to read it in full
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