Fur flies as Daisy Lowe is accused of being overweight London Fashion Week does not begin until Friday, but tempers are already beginning to fray. Sasha Volkova, the Marks & Spencer model, has suggested that her fellow mannequin Daisy Lowe, a former girlfriend of the Doctor Who star Matt Smith, is overweight. To add insult to injury, Volkova, who comes from humble origins in the Ukraine, adds that if Lowe was not the daughter of a well-known couple, she would be asked to go on a diet. "If Daisy Lowe's parents weren't famous, if she had gone to a model agency, they would have told her to go and lose some weight," Volkova tells Mandrake at Mark Fast's "creative talent" dinner at the Corinthia hotel. That might not be right, but other girls get treated like that. Daisy, 23, is the daughter of Pearl Lowe, the pop singer turned fashion designer, and Gavin Rossdale, the rock singer. Volkova, 26, was engaged to Dan Macmillan, the great-grandson of the former prime minister Harold Macmillan and heir to the Earl of Stockton. "I don't know what is it with London," she adds, "but the fashion world here is always in love with famous offspring, aren't they?"