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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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@Smashville_not taking it seriously: Which, as Boingboing pointed out, is pretty much the definition of fair use.
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I dunno, nothing's hotter than a 22-15-21 model. You probably don't even have to feed her. Score!
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Oooo, she's HOT! I love me some stick figure chicks!
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She's smaller and weighed less than the sandwich I had for lunch.
Pastrami on pumpernickel for the curious.
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@Blueskylaw: Your sandwich probably contained more calories than she's eaten in the last few years too.
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@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.
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@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.
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@pecan 3.14159265: @Blueskylaw: Teriyaki tempeh cheeseburger on a whole wheat bun with sauteed red onion, lettuce, tomato, swiss. I made it myself (I go home for lunch every day).
The sandwich had more calories than she's eaten in 3 months.
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.
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.)
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Wow, her left shoulder looks like mine did when I dislocated it.
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!
@The_IT_Crone: Is it bad that I went to check out Amazon to see if they had \"You Suck at Photoshop\" listed as a book? Um, not like I'd need it or anything....
@The_IT_Crone: (oh, and just because I agree with the concept of spreading it, I'm posting the link to this everywhere...)
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Ralph Lauren for Women: Now with less kidney!
But why pay for a model and a graphic designer with Photoshop skills when you can just buy a Barbie doll for the photo shoot?
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@thesadtomato: and if you aren't real careful her feet probably DO come off like a Bratz doll... bet she's brittle with that complete lack of muscle
Is that Lindsay Lohan?
Is it just me or is \"box of Pocky\" the most obscure comparative reference ever?
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@Homerjay is utterly alone.: I wouldn't have gotten it either until a friend of mine introduced me to Pocky at a local Wal-Mart. It's a darn good treat.
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@Homerjay is utterly alone.: It's not only obscure, but really not the most apt. She looks much more like a lollipop or Q-tip.
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@Chris Walters: A handful of Pocky probably weighs more, though. Maybe \"two Pocky with a rack attached\"?
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@Homerjay is utterly alone.: I think Pocky is right on. Because Pixie Stix is the alternative I think of for shape - but that's got the cute Pixie connotation. And I can't say cute is what comes to mind with this.
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@Homerjay is utterly alone.: Nah, it could get worse. If I were to say \"Damn, she's fine, got a body like a Ramune bottle\", that would probably be a little more obscure.
I'd also like to note that I have no strong feelings towards women with marble-shaped masses in the middle of their bodies.
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@h3llc4t has a slow work day: There's an empty bottle sitting right beside me, oddly enough. The nieces adore that stuff.
@Homerjay is utterly alone.: Nope. As soon as I read \"box of Pocky\" I totally got it, and wanted some chocolate Pocky. Mmmm.
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God she is a fatty .. lose some Lb's lady !
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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.
@Gamethyme: Came here to make the same note. I hope they update the article because it makes PhotoshopDisasters look bad.
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.
@pecan 3.14159265: What is even more disgusting is that she was already rail thing and someone thought she needed to look skinnier. The image looks more gaunt and malnourished than pictures of holocaust victims.
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?
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@bohemian: I don't think the image looks real enough to be gaunt, though--it looks like one of those comic mashup collages with the big heads.
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@pecan 3.14159265: 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.
I will be highly happy when this spreads throughout the fashion world. Real women have curves. We like to look pretty too.
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@AshCatScram: If I see this nonsense of \"real\" women having curves one more time, I might just scream. Rail against the terrible practices of the fashion industry all you'd like, but please don't objectify and devalue women in the process.
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@Pink Puppet: YES YES YES YES YES. I'm sorry I'm skinny and small busted, but that's just how the genetic chips fell for me. To say I'm not a \"real\" woman because I happen to be predisposed towards being thin is idiotic.
@aloria: No matter how thin you are, you've got more \"curves\" than the model in that picture appears to have.
@aloria: You must be a real-life Photoshop then... ;)
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.
@AshCatScram: Thin women are \"real\" women too. They just aren't as common as less-than-thin women (like me).
@pecan 3.14159265: She's actually not that bad in other photos. She's model-thin, of course, but at least it appears that she has internal organs. Her name is Filippa Hamilton-PÂÂalmstiernÂa
@Ayarkay: I hope you are right - because jeebus that is a terrifying shot. I'm with Pi - I'm having a hard time looking away, shocked that RL would think this was a good ad. Who thinks that putting an ad up of someone who looks so thin they look like they have a terminal illness makes for good sales? Does that make for good sales? I don't comprehend.
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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 Awardâ„¢ gotes to Ralph Lauren for forcing them to drop the image.
@mariospants: Photoshop Disasters runs on Blogspot, so its Blogspot's call to remove the post, not the folks who actually run PSD. A company like Blogspot, and any ISP/Host really, will usually just comply with a DMCA rather than actually consult with a lawyer or risk a lawsuit, both of which are much more costly than just deleting the page. BoingBoing is a different sort of place though, as Fair Use is one of the most covered causes on the site!
@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.
Good thing BoingBoing's ISP is Canadian (as per the actual boingboing article)- they don't have to follow DMCA.
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@gover57: It's not that they're Canadian, it's more that the DMCA was baseless, and the ISP realized that.
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The first thing I thought when I saw the picture:
WTF is wrong with her?
And good for standing up to the lawsuit threats.
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The problem is...her body is so thin, now her head looks enormous. Perhaps a trip to a voodoo witch doctor could remedy the problem.
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.
Photoshop Disasters is hosted by Blogspot who took down the post. The blog itself had no say in the matter as Blogspot does this as a matter of routine with all DCMA notices. Relevant post:
[photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com]
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 wonder if she can suck her own dick.
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She doesn't really look like that. It's been photoshopped for the ad.
@RobertBaron: Well I don't think they touched her legs and they look like they belong to a lanky 10 year old on chemo.
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@RobertBaron: Such an amazing coincidence then that it showed up on a website called \"Photoshop Disasters\"!!
Wish there was an edit function, but oh well - Wouldn't the Streisand effect actually be beneficial in this instance? It gets more eyeballs on the ad and gets people talking about it. If there were no Streisand effect, far fewer people would have seen this ad.
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@RobertBaron: I personally don't agree with the idea that any publicity is good publicity. Ralph Lauren is going to look like 1) they think women should be insanely thin and 2) lawsuit happy bullies.
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.
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Mmmm Pocky.
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Anorexia is ALWAYS in vogue. Photoshopped or not.
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Boing Boing has actually posted about it three times now. They are running an awesome contest for people to \"de-touch\" the photo (use an image editor to make her look human again.)
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Somebody either doesn't understand the concept of fair use, or doesn't care.
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.
This looks like something you'd see on a pro-ana/my friend ED web site. That image is creeptacular.
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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.
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@littletater: Thanks for the insider coverage! I was wondering how anyone could let this happen. I don't know... As a female, it's downright painful seeing this and thinking \"Wow. People think I should look like this?\"
I guess I don't understand why they had to take it this far? I can understand being frustrated that the model gained weight (which, FWIW, I think she should, if she's even close to this gaunt) and knowing you're going to have to pair her down, but really? Giving a girl a seriously curvy waist when she's that skinny is a dead giveaway.
@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.
@littletater: From what I understand, she had gained enough to not fit into the clothes.
But...but...she's wearing the clothes! Or is that not even her body they Silly Putty-ed?
@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.
@littletater: Just so you know, I reposted your comment over to Jezebel [jezebel.com] because it's great insider coverage. I quoted you and said it was you and Jenna, the author of the article promoted it. It's like you're internet famous!
@Ananelle: *squealing like a little girl* thanks! I did post there but I guess it hasn't been published yet...but thanks again!
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Popeye and Bluto are going to beat the crap out of each other over her.
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Photoshop Disasters didn't cave. Their host automatically takes down posts when there's a DCMA challenge.
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Maybe we should just say that real women are real?
@brandihendrix: I think we should say that designers who don't want a woman's breasts or butt to mess up the lines of their clothes (IIRC, some designer actually said this) are real assholes.
Ralph Lauren - New York, Paris, Ethiopia 1985.
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Damn. I always suspected Ralph Lauren was trying to get me to buy their cashmere preppy riding-inspired goods with unattainable images of feminine waifishness in a WASP body personified, but now I KNOW it's unattainable!
They can make up for this buy using Christina Hendricks for all their photo shoots from now on. I am so sick of the starvation diet look.
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Well PSD should not have caved. That just encourages em
So they left in too much of her facial fat for that head to match the body. They should've hollowed out her eye sockets and spent some time sucking in her cheeks. She looks like she just got releasted from Auschwitz. WTF?
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This is pretty grotesque. The thing is, I can't imagine that it wasn't intentional. There are several people that had to have looked at it before it got printed and no one noticed the picture was 'shopped by Salvador Dali?
@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.
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Hey fatty! Get on the treadmill already.
I like petite women but this is just crypt keeper bad. Photoshop or not get that box wine bit*h some in n' out burger and lock the bathroom.
you would think they would know that suing over this would bring more attention to it than having just laughed at it themselves. BUT, then again, this is the JERK who tried to sue the United States Polo Association from using the image of a polo player with a mallet and mounted horse, which they had used for years before ralph louren was about. I guess, once a jerk always a jerk, all be it a rich one.
How is this supposed to SELL a product? Aren't ads supposed to make you think you'll look good in their clothes? Or at least sell sex? This one does neither!
I'm sorry, I'm sure the model depicted looks much more attractive in person than she does in that altered photo. But seriously, there are people in this world that are that thin because they don't have any food to eat. Not because they need to look good in some prick designer's crappy clothes.
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?
I never would have read this article or even looked at the picture if it wasn't for mention of the DMCA takedown notices.
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?
@DaveDidNotPay: Exactly. They should take a few pointers from Speidi. Stupidness: It seems to work in their favor everytime! =)
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This has nothing to do with the DMCA. The ISP is in Canada and the lawyer's letter makes no mention of the DMCA or any other US law.
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Like someone said above, she looks like a Holocaust victim. If the model had been of African descent, I'm sure we'd all draw references to refugees or one of those \"save the children\" commercials where flies land on their faces and they don't even bother to shoo them away.
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.
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[www.huffingtonpost.com] <-- found a article about said photo (disaster), (issue), (oops).. pick your adjective...
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Streisand effect ftw.