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People are hungry for answers after word came out that size 4 model Filippa Hamilton was fired from Ralph Lauren for being too "fat," and then that company Photoshopping her to look like a bobblehead doll for an ad in Japan.
One 15-year-old in the Bronx told the Daily News, "It makes me angry. They always want skinnier." A body image expert offered a common sense solution, saying: "I think we need to get a grip and designers need to get a clue. If a stunning size 4 model is too overweight to look good in their clothes, then they need to change their clothes, not the model."
After cease and desist threats to websites posting the image, and after claiming they had nothing to do with the Photoshopped Filippa, Ralph Lauren finally admitted they created the ad and have apologized. There's still model blood on their hands though! Hamilton remains fired, and her lawyer says he fears Ralph Lauren's treatment "will be extremely damaging to her."
And then there's the little matter of this other Photoshopped Ralph Lauren ad that popped up recently in Australia...
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There isn't a model that hasn't been photoshopped before being placed in an add or magazine.
If you look at most fashion magazines you will see photoshopped images of models. Most of them poorly done. It seems to be a look they are using today.
Thank God that Playboy magazine never used photoshop in the sixties and early seventies. Those girls were natural beauties.
There is a lot of Photoshopping, but these two ads are RIDICULOUS.
Methinks it's intentionally over the top. Any publicity is good publicity, and it's working.
this photoshopper needs to get shit-canned immediately. then i suggest getting their eyes checked and going back to Life Drawing 101 to relearn basic human proportions.
they look like character in Japanese comics-that's how they like em over there
I like my girls anorexic. The reality of it is "NO FAT CHICKS."
Since when was a gaunt physique coupled with a manly visage ever in? Anyhow, she does look like a young Brooke Shields - on crack...
Probably the only instance that I'm with France on making it mandatory to indicate below the photo if it has been altered.
Instead of buying clothes, women should just go to Ralph Lauren for photoshop makeovers.
Hydrocephalus is in.
Speaking of bobbleheads, that recent cover of Pinkett-Smith chick on the cover of Shape was an obvious PS job. Her head does not match her body.
Why do they need to fire models for being too fat if they have the magic of photoshop?
Not that I agree with these images...I think they look like something from a freak show.
Mr. Lipshitz, this is just getting ridiculous. Indeed, why fire a size 4 model when you can always photoshop her in post production?
The bottom half of that model on the right looks like a CGI character from the Lord of the Rings movies.
Hamilton isn't too fat, it's just her proportions aren't sample size anymore. When I look at this photo of her on the right, http://www2.tbo.com/exposure/ar/385/385/2009/10/14/17947_ralph-lauren-ad.jpg I can tell right away her hips are too big for the sample sizes. She's probably got a 36 to 38 inch hip. Unfortunately, 33/34 is sample size, and sometimes smaller.
Nothing wrong with her. She's not fat, just not the right proportion for the samples.
Anyone know the name of the model on the other ad?
No way is that girl either a 36 to 38. I wear a 36 inch pants and no way do I look like her.
Are you 6' 1" ?
Of course if you're 5'4 you arent' going to look like that. 6' girls are more proportional with 36 hips than 5' anything.
Here is her spec. 90cm hips. Which is almost 36"
Considering this page is not updated regularly, it's likely that she's added inches to this.
http://supermodels.nl/filippahamilton
Oops so sorry. I thought the 36" was waist line, not hips.
Awful Photoshop job aside, the other model on the right is much more attractive than Hamilton on the left. She doesn't look like she has PMS and is two seconds away from kicking you in the groin. Whatever happened to the good, old days when models used to smile at you from ads? If whatever product they're advertising makes you look pissed off or constipated all the time, I don't think I'm interesting in buying it.