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Guess which one is Photoshopped
This Ralph Lauren model was fired earlier this year for being too fat. At 5' 10" and 120 lbs, Filippa Hamilton (who was with the company since 2002), tells the Daily News, "They fired me because they said I was overweight and I couldn't fit in their clothes anymore."
To add insult to injury, a Ralph Lauren Blue Label ad she appeared in popped up in Japan (and on the internet) last week severely Photoshopped, leading to an onslaught of criticism of the company, and in turn, the company went through a period of denial and threatened anyone who posted the image. Finally, however, they released a statement admitting they turned Hamilton into a bobblehead. It said, in part: "After further investigation, we have learned that we are responsible for the poor imaging and retouching that resulted in a very distorted image of a woman's body. "
They also said that Hamilton is a "beautiful and healthy" woman... but she's still fired due to failure to meet contract obligations (to look like Skeletor in real life?). Hamilton declares: "I'm very proud of what I look like, and I think a role model should look healthy." Indeed. She appeared on the Today Show this morning, saying that she hadn't even gained weight since the contract was signed. Cosmo editor-in-chief, Kate White, was also on hand, offering Hamilton an 8-page spread in the magazine.
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Wow. I like them fat like this.
She looks amazing in every picture except the photoshopped one in the middle, in which she looks like a concentration camp victim.
I think you would have to remove a couple of her ribs to look the way they photoshopped her in that middle pic.
This girl is fucking gorgeous and RL is shameless. I hope she has a long and successful career.
girls without meat = not attractive and not as good in bed
This is insane.
Once again the old women and gay mafia hating on young women strikes again. Fashion isn't for straight men at all.
+1
You'd never see a waif-stick in Playboy. Nice cans and 2:3 hip:waist FTW.
And Playboy is the standard we all aspire to, for sure!
ha! okay kids today we'll learn about "soft focus".
But isn't Ralph Lauren himself a straight designer?
If anything that chick could use to gain 20 pounds. I've heard fashion people complaining that the sample sizes they get from designers are so ridiculously small even their tiniest models won't fit. Why do women support these industries? I refuse to personally. I don't buy designer brands except on rare occasions and when I do it's always the more conscientious, high quality brands. No Ralph Lauren trash. Babyhitler's right - these people must hate young women.
stick women are gross and RL needs to have his eyes checked.
well at least someone out there believes that women should not be super-skinny.
personally, I wouldn't want to. might lose the ladies. ha!
The joke that is the fashion industry and it's enablers on Madison Avenue boils down to one reason why women like this are considered fat: The gay men in both fashion and advertising are obsessed with making everyone, including women, look like young boys.
I don't think that is true since most people in NYC are FAT and I mean FAT
I take it you've never had a layover in Cleveland?
According to standard BMI charts, our lady here is still 9lbs away from even brushing the lowest "healthy" BMI.
Is the message from Lauren that only a dying woman is a beautiful one?
Middle picture is strange, she looks like a lollipop .
Model musta been eating too many of Dylan's candies.
The Misogynist Industry masquerades as the Fashion Industry.
I gave up modeling when I gained a few pounds from drinking beer. I am now 5'9" and weigh 195 and I cannot fit into my Calvins or Ralphs anymore. I might have to switch to Marc Jacobs or Lane Bryant.
I really don't get the concept behind the super skinny model. It's not really attractive and it doesn't highlight the clothes that well. So what gives?
Why don't the designers get rid of the models all together and just have a flimsy wire frame move down the walkway with a fan blowing on their "creations"?
Preach!!
(PS. Big girls + low-rise jeans = WIN!)
No fat chicks.
you can say that again
I think that RL should put some time into recognizing that most people in the world not only don't look as thin as the company would like, but WOULDN'T WANT TO! You would have to be morbid to choose to be and look so unhealthy. It is a tragedy that high fashion leads so many women to believe they have to compare themselves to these clearly malnourished models. I agree that it must be gay men and overweight and over-aged women who make these standards. Who else would think this to be appealing? I am not saying this to be mean. I just happen to think that gay men have their own extreme ideas of what women should look like. And older and/or overweight women have this impossible set of ideals that many of them CLAIM to have observed in their earlier years. Preposterous. This woman is beautiful. And yes, I too think she could gain a few pounds for her own health benefits.
I've always heard young, skinny models are perfect because they don't distract from the clothes. They are living hangers to present the profit making products.
The middle picture doesn't even look human.
I know a very pretty girl who's 5'8" and 115 and she looks way too thin, but there's no telling a militant vegan like her anything. 2" taller and only 5 pounds heavier? Ick.
Just boycott the idiotic company -
Tell them no purchases because the brand and company espouses "values and process that are detrimental to our social contract with each other. As you don't meet the tenants of that contract - you're fired!"
We know contracts too - see.
Love,
LA
I've been 'boycotting' Ralph Lauren's clothes my whole life. I suppose I will continue.
Dear Mr Ralph Rueben Lifshitz,
Since you seem so real and honest based on your name I am sending you a portfolio snap shot of me as an aspiring model. Please see image below and let me know if you think I am too heavy.
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Am I thin enough?
Cordially yours,
Ms. Malissa Evant Spindly
PS: I could lose another twenty pounds if you think it would make me a better model.
creative and cheeky!
That's photoshopped ? Looks like a 5th grade MS Paint job.
You need to put up a picture of Will Ferrell as Mugatu in Zoolander. One of his best lines comes as he's adjusting a dress on a model and accidentally stuck her with a pin:
Oh, I'm sorry, did my pin get in the way of your ass? Do me a favor and lose five pounds immediately or get out of my building like now!
Never mind her weight. Check out her eyebrows in the vid.
jesus, that middle pick is just fucking gross
I agree with my long time assistant, Charles, that all our models are way too fat. From now on the House of Luiis Maurice Dartangnian will only be using models in a minus 0 size. Any model who is 5'-11" or taller needs to weigh under 65 pounds.
Wow. She may actually have to go out and get a real job to make a living. The poor thing.
As people age their body proportion changes. They might not gain weight, but it's distributed differently.
I think she might weight the same as she did, but may be since her body changed shape, she didn't fit into the clothes anymore.
I think RL is ok for letter her go. If she didn't fit, she didn't fit.
RL never said she was fat. She said she was fat. RL only said she didn't fit into the samples anymore, which would be true if her shape changed.
Regarding the photoshopped ad. Someone in the art department should have caught that before it went to print. However if it was in Japan they might have seen it as a sort of Anime treatment.
You: "RL never said she was fat. She said she was fat. RL only said she didn't fit into the samples anymore, which would be true if her shape changed."
The article: At 5' 10" and 120 lbs, Filippa Hamilton (who was with the company since 2002), tells the Daily News, "They fired me because they said I was overweight and I couldn't fit in their clothes anymore."
You: "I think RL is ok for letter her go."
English: I think RL is ok for letting her go.
Actuality: Ralph Lauren is way out of whack.
Thanks for proving my point.
The article states, "she said, ...I was fat...", which is what I was saying. RL never said she was fat in the media.
Next time you have a typo I'll make sure to make a point of it as well. Jerk.
You idiot. What are you quoting from me that proves your point? Both myself and the article we're citing clearly uses the word overweight. But you keep saying 'fat' as if you read it somewhere. Butter butter on the brain?
If they wanted to let her go, buy her out of her contract, and don't use her body in such a gross and distorted way! BTW, this is VERY bad photoshop, and the proportions aren't even that of a waif model.
I think they fired her because she doesn't look fresh anymore. She obviously isn't fat.
If she didn't look fresh then why did they use her face?
whoever at RL thought that middle pic looked "good" should be fired and will likely be fired after this negative press.
Maybe Ralph Lauren should stick to clothes for fat guys.
5'8" and 120 pounds is not healthy. it's a real disservice to people everywhere when numbers like that are shown as 'healthy' and a woman talks about being 'proud' of that weight as opposed to being even skinnier.
but to be honest, i bet she doesn't weigh 120. people don't know what weights look like at all, because of all the damned lying all the time.
Hamilton declares: "I'm very proud of what I look like, and I think a role model should look healthy."
Since when are Ralph Lauren models considered ROLE MODELS?
I know a couple girls that are 5 even and like 100-110 pounds but they're tiny. I couldn't imagine a human almost a foot taller and only 10-20 pounds heavier. I didn't know that was physiologically possible.
Regardless..
That woman is stunningly beautiful. I'd give a whole lot to get with a girl that good looking, if only once..
She was sitting down in the interview. It would have been nice to see her stand up, and may be wear a bikini, so we can see if she's carrying a wide load.
She's hot and healthy.
someone needs to feed that girl, the today show couldn't give her a bagel?
sick,look at her,that flannel and those jeans shes wearing look like they are going to burst
WHY is this news?????!!!!! Who gives a %%#%%@ anything goes in the fashion industry. Move on with your life.
gay guys have no idea how a good looking girl looks like. they like them skinny and androgynous.
Weight has become the new predictor to separate us. The haves are skinny and have expensive clothes and the have-nots have bellies. Whatever.
It's just another way for companies to define reality and brainwash individuals so they can profit from them. They're selling lifestyle brands...not clothes...same as american apparel, gap, all of them...selling lifestyles so people can have the illusion of being a part of something...
How about these models getting real jobs instead of being biological mannequins? The models make more money than the kids who MAKE the clothes...think about how that makes sense...
She's a beautiful girl, but this is an opportunity for her to actually DO something with her life...Maybe she'll go somewhere she might be useful to society...like a supermarket bagging my groceries or maybe a library helping children read
Fashionistas like their models really, really thin so that the clothes will wear the woman instead of the women wearing the clothes. Also, most of these clothes wouldn't look good on anything but a stick. Real women have breasts and buttocks, real models do not.
If they wanted to let her go, buy her out of her contract, and don't use her body in such a gross and distorted way! This isn't even the proportions of a waif model, just really bad photo shop.
smile you skowling skank
I just made a call to Ralph Lauren and left a message for the CEO regarding the firing of Filippa Hamilton and the GROSS distortion of her image in their advertising. Let your voices be heard! It takes 2 minutes!!! Phone: 212-318-7000, ext 7417 (Asst to CEO). Fax: 212-318-769017. Tell them you will not support any mags that they advertise in or buy their clothes. RL accounts for 1/3 of my wardrobe, and I just packed everything away. PS butterbutter is an idiot and probably a RL employee. If they wanted to let her go, buy her out of her contract, and don't use her body in such a gross and distorted way!
I just made a call to Ralph Lauren and left a message for the CEO regarding the firing of Filippa Hamilton and the GROSS distortion of her image in their advertising. Let your voices be heard! It takes 2 minutes!!! Phone: 212-318-7000, ext 7417 (Asst to CEO). Fax: 212-318-769017. Tell them you will not support any mags that they advertise in or buy their clothes. RL accounts for 1/3 of my wardrobe, and I just packed everything away. PS butterbutter is an idiot and probably a RL employee. If they wanted to let her go, buy her out of her contract, and don't use her body in such a gross and distorted way!