Update: Our original post said that Photoshop Disasters caved to the takedown notice, but that was incorrect according to several readers. A commenter below writes, "Photoshop Disasters didn't cave - Blogspot policy is to remove the offending post until the investigation is complete. PsD had a post up about it yesterday." We've changed the wording in the first paragraph to more accurately reflect what happened.
"The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn't want you to see!" [Boingboing]
]]>[www.huffingtonpost.com] <-- found a article about said photo (disaster), (issue), (oops).. pick your adjective...
]]>I'm sorry, but she looks like the girls who diet their way to thinness not taking into account something called nutrition. A true good looking woman has muscles. I won't say they have breasts or a decent rear end because women come in all shapes and genetics is a crap shoot.
]]>@DaveDidNotPay: Exactly. They should take a few pointers from Speidi. Stupidness: It seems to work in their favor everytime! =)
]]>Silly companies. Trying to get stuff they put on the internet OFF the internet? How do companies STILL not realize that this simply does not happen and only makes them famous for being stupid?
]]>Cut the guy some slack. Maybe the guy who photoshopped the picture has some sort of fetish. An unrealistic fetish, but still! Here in America, we should know better. We have rights. Some of those rights include being able to dream or hope, or to have odd fetishes, etc. Ha!
On a side note, since when did looking like Jack Skellington become hot? So what? Soon, sewing on buttons for eyes is gonna be hot. The world is becoming a Tim Burton movie people! Hey? I wonder if that's what Lady Gaga is doing?
]]>@zacox:
LOL, that's just too funny.
Newest invisible soldier for the military?
]]>@cambiata: I hear ya.
]]>@CheritaChen: you'd be surprised at the amount of trickery involved when models have the actual clothes on - they'll pin stuff back, split seams - sometimes if something is too small they'll even cut it down the back like a reverse vest. Just a heads up to everyone - ALL clothes you see in a catalog, e-commerce site, etc are tailored drastically in one way or another.
]]>But...but...she's wearing the clothes! Or is that not even her body they Silly Putty-ed?
]]>@stormbird: Honestly, from what I understand it wasn't... it was more like "uhh, she looks kinda...plump...let's just make her look thinner with the computer machine! genius!" RLFail.
]]>@Ananelle: *squealing like a little girl* thanks! I did post there but I guess it hasn't been published yet...but thanks again!
]]>@pecan 3.14159265: I had Subway today as well, the Buffalo Chicken sub. I'm a big fan of buffalo sauce, so being able to have it on a sub was amazing.
]]>@Chris Walters: A handful of Pocky probably weighs more, though. Maybe "two Pocky with a rack attached"?
]]>Well PSD should not have caved. That just encourages em
]]>Lauren produces plus sized lines so the freakishly skinny model seems a bit hypocritical. Would it really kill them to use a good looking model with actual curves?
]]>@Ananelle: From what I understand, she had gained enough to not fit into the clothes. It's an issue when fairly exclusive contract requires you to fit within a certain size frame. Also, these shoots cost a significant amount of money, and this was to be for a nation ad campaign...but REALLY, JUST. GET. ANOTHER. MODEL.
]]>Sorry guys, she has a boyfriend:
I can not recall hearing anything bad about RL before this. The only other story about them on this site is over an ugly pair of pants in 2006. So I doubt that they're trying to be thrilled about bad publicity for publicity's sake.
Also, this sucks for the model too. Her most well known photo is going to be one where she looks ridiculous.
]]>FWIW, I worked for the company at the time, especially closely to the graphics department that "created" this image. The model had gained weight and he-llo, rather than booking another model, or choosing a different pose, they decided to just make her look thinner in post-production. I know several higher-ups were opposed to the publishing of the image, but it was eventually approved, only to be criticized internally when everyone realized how absolutely ridiculous it looked.
]]>I understand where the "real women have curves" thing comes from, because people act as though the models in magazines are the norm when they're not. You can technically argue that they're not "real" women as well since they're been Photoshopped all to hell, but it's still annoying to hear.
]]>I love how Ralph Lauren's REAL name is Ralph Lipshitz (sp). My brother used ot work for one of his high end outlets which is how I know.
]]>Anorexia is ALWAYS in vogue. Photoshopped or not.
]]>@mariospants: You can thank the DMCA for that - Photoshop Disasters' host is required to respond to complaints of copyright infringement. Someone upthread mentioned that they're on Blogspot, which unfortunately doesn't have the resources or inclination to fight for their users, so they just take things down the second someone complains.
]]>Yeah. PSD rules.
]]>A sir-mix-a-lot quote?
I tip my crunk cup to you, kind woman!
]]>I wonder if she can suck her own dick.
]]>It seems that Ralph Lauren is not too keen on art criticism these days and lashed out with a rather questionable DMCA takedown against this blog.
Evidently they haven't heard of the Streisand Effect. Boing Boing comes to the rescue.
Edit: Huffington Post joins in!
Edit: I didn't take the post down - Blogspot automatically takes down posts in a DMCA. (In their defence, most ISPs do the same thing.)
]]>I once saw a girl in college that was about this thin. You could see her individual ribs, the bones in her skull, and even the bones in her arms. Other than that, just walking around like a normal college student. I just assumed it was an extreme eating disorder.
]]>I will be highly happy when this spreads throughout the fashion world. Real women have curves. We like to look pretty too.
]]>WTF is wrong with her?
And good for standing up to the lawsuit threats.
]]>Well, now I'm hungry again. When I was watching "The Devil Wears Prada" for the first time, I got to the scene in which Emily Blunt's character describes her diet as "I don't eat anything, and when I'm about to pass out, I eat a cube of cheese" and my first thought was "Dear God! ....does that work?" and then my second thought was, "cheeeeese..mmm..." so clearly her diet would not work for me.
]]>Good thing BoingBoing's ISP is Canadian (as per the actual boingboing article)- they don't have to follow DMCA.
]]>I saw this image on Photoshop Disasters before they took it down and I'm pissed that they had to do so. Althought it's a small site that's likely a part-time venture for its owners, how is this not covered by freedom of expression and commentary?
Total Asshat Award™ gotes to Ralph Lauren for forcing them to drop the image.
]]>I can't seem to look away, it's so grotesque how skinny she is. That's just really, extremely unhealthy.
Ironically, the most famous models in fashion aren't really stick-thin. They have curves to them. What makes Ralph Lauren think that they can put a rail-thin model on their ad campaign and not incur some criticism, when the most famous models are all thin, but have real curves?
It makes me happy to see this though: [www.huffingtonpost.com] It's fantastic that German's most popular fashion magazine listened to its readers and is eschewing photo spreads of rail-thin models for real people.
]]>The sandwich had more calories than she's eaten in 3 months.
]]>I'm heading out to my favourite Jewish Deli to get a pastrami on rye with slaw. NY style of course. (That means the sandwich is all meat with very little slaw, and of course NO CHEESE. Being a purist et al.)
]]>Photoshop Disasters didn't cave - Blogspot policy is to remove the offending post until the investigation is complete. PsD had a post up about it yesterday.
]]>@Homerjay is utterly alone.: Nope. As soon as I read "box of Pocky" I totally got it, and wanted some chocolate Pocky. Mmmm.
]]>Is that Lindsay Lohan?
]]>@Blueskylaw: Oh, is this where we talk about sandwiches? I had a Subway oven-roasted chicken. It was not roasted in an oven, though, unless that oven looked like a microwave.
]]>Honestly, I can't believe in this day/age that people are 1) still this horrible about body image that they do THIS and 2) ARE STILL THIS BAD AT PHOTOSHOP! Quick, get them some "You Suck at Photoshop," STAT!
]]>She's smaller and weighed less than the sandwich I had for lunch.
Pastrami on pumpernickel for the curious.
]]>Oooo, she's HOT! I love me some stick figure chicks!
]]>I dunno, nothing's hotter than a 22-15-21 model. You probably don't even have to feed her. Score!
]]>This one is almost worse than the others...because in this case, they're sending them takedown notices for making fun of them.
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