STEPS - LONDON CATWALKS FACE SIZE ZERO DEBATE

As London fashion week gets underway the controversy over size-zero models is already beginning to rear its pretty head in Britain.

Over the next six days the biggest and best designers will be airing their latest creations at a variety of locations in the UK capital.

An exhibition is also taking place at the Natural History museum, but all the attention will be focussed on the catwalk – and any stick-thin models who dare show their wafer-like bodies.

Even culture secretary Tessa Jowell has waded into the debate, making clear her lack of support for anorexic models.

"I am delighted that the British Fashion Council... have made it absolutely clear that they intend to take some serious steps to rectify the use of very thin models," she told the Today programme earlier this week.

The introduction of legislation to prevent thin models from working as models is a step too far, Ms Jowell believes. She says it is up to the fashion industry to regulate itself on this issue.

It seems that London photographers will not just be eyeing the clothes models are wearing during the next six days.