Is eating the new black?

With London Fashion Week in full swing restaurants seem to be falling over themselves like Naomi Campbell on Vivienne Westwood platforms to tempt even the most calorie controlling fashionista with specially created LFW menus. From the Stephen Webster Bijoux Afternoon Tea at the Langham to beef carpaccio and baked salt crust sea bass at Babbo, admittedly most menus heavily focus on champagne (or in the case of J Sheeky even low calorie Pol Roger) but we here at Phipps obviously welcome every opportunity to indulge in some native rock oysters, mackerel ceviche or calamari with spicy cucumber, especially if it comes with a side of celeb spotting at Massimo. Mind you, how times have changed. Not long ago the fashion world was rocked by the ‘size zero’ debate and stick-thin models. These days models are eating, and today the latest pictures from the catwalks are competing for column inches with health secretary Andrew Lansley’s announcement at the UN that ‘obesity is the new smallpox’. Who says fashion is pure la-la land?

Posted by Toby Schuster