The runway set has always loved that unrealistic “thin” look, but going Manute Bol is just bit too far, especially when you cheat and use Photoshop to achieve that look.
In recent years an ongoing debate has brewed over advertisers and fashion magazines using photographs, particularly photographs of women, that have seemingly been altered, or “retouched,” by airbrushing and photo editing software such as Photoshop.
The latest such image to cause an uproar is one featured in a new Ralph Lauren advertisement that shows a model, Filippa Hamilton, so emaciated that her waist actually appears to be smaller than her head.
Ya gotta remember it’s all proportional.
I was trying to think of what she reminded me of in this photo. Then it hit me…she looks like one of the Nightmare Before Christmas characters, with the stick-like limbs.
Anatomically impossible for somebody to be that thin and be called “healthy”.
Typical Madison Avenue mind set – let’s totally distort reality to sell crap.
crowhorse, you hit the nail on the head.
Igor
Igor, she’s not ACTUALLY that thin. There’s a whole website dedicated to pictures like this called “Photoshop Disasters”, and if you look really closely, you can tell where one picture was cut off just below the breasts and added to another, but out of scale.
Ralph Lauren is apparently sending out Cease and Desist” letters to bloggers now who are using the photo.
What’s he going to do, sue me?
You know about the blood and stone thing, Ralph…?
Just more signs of what any death cult worships.
I have heard thin is in, but this is ridiculous. Bob knows I am just a small guy, but giving her a hug would be like hugging a rope – a small rope. This definitely sends a wrong message to young women who, in many cases try to mimic these models. You are built the way God intended, why try to change it. Personality & intelligence are far more important. Sometimes eye candy can be a bitter choice.
Why would any woman want to look like that? She looks stupid.
Seriously… She really looks stupid….
We all know they use photo shop to get 10-15 pounds off of stars…but, did they really think this was believable?
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I thought the picture was a joke — that surely the *real* Ralph Lauren company wouldn’t use such a horribly fake (and disgusting) picture as a real advertisement. This does look cartoonish.
Mauser, I am well aware that the kind of thinness being portrayed is not reality – that’s my point. She wouldn’t survive for more’n a week, with rectal and renal failure being a large cause of death. Which is why this advert is so disingenuous and can give false impressions to already over-impressionable youngsters that this is something to strive for.
OldNYFirefighter, correct. “Rope” it is!!
Igor
That is just gross.