Karl Lagerfeld's Size Zero Comments

Karl Lagerfeld has reopened the size zero debate saying that the issue is nothing compared to the amount of fat people in the world.

In an interview for Radio 4 programme Today, the Chanel designer said: "In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

"There are nearly 30 per cent of young people who are too fat. So let's take care of the zillions of the too fat before we talk about the percentage that's left."

A spokesperson for the group Beating Eating Disorders said that Lagerfeld's views are a very sad reflection on attitudes within the fashion industry.

She told The Telegraph: "We talk to thousands of people every year with eating disorders, who say 'If we look like that, we are told that we should be in hospital.' Yet these models are being celebrated."