Looking at the rapidly rising Covid-19 numbers in France, it’s easy to imagine the country is careering to national lockdown.

Politicians in fashion powerhouse France have moved to make it a crime to use anorexic models or encourage anorexia in a crackdown on the glorification of dangerously thin women.

France’s government last night debated a bill banning excessively thin fashion models as well as potentially fining the agency or fashion house that hires them and sending the agents to jail.