Skin-and-bone models outlawed in France

HOW wonderful it would be if the law passed in France yesterday that bans excessively thin fashion models and exposes modelling agencies and the fashion houses that use them to fines or jail was to build into a worldwide trend.

For far too long the fashion industry has been a kind of freak show where impossibly skinny and obviously unhealthy women were presented as an ideal.

Rather, those unfortunate and exploited models seem a perfect combination of narcissism and vulnerability.