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POPSWas the photoshopped Ralph Lauren model fired for being overweight?
Most of us know that a tall, young woman who weighs 120 pounds is not overweight. But Hamilton claims Ralph Lauren was dissatisfied with her body, and therefore fired her six months ago. However, the company continued to use her image, whittling down her arms, waist, thighs, and possibly several other body parts in the above ad. If they were so unhappy with how she looked, why not get another model for the campaign? Why use the photos and alter and distort them? Today, Ralph Lauren himself is distancing himself from the ad, claiming, "The image in question was mistakenly released and used in a department store in Japan and was not the approved image which ran in the U.S." So we're confused. They say the photoshopping was an error, that Hamilton is "beautiful and healthy," yet they allegedly fired her for her size? With all these apologies and statements it sounds like the brand still has yet to accept responsibility for their actions.
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POPSBranding_Over: Modifying a Model's Photo So Much as to Make her Head Bigger than her Waist & Hips http://news.chinatimes.com/2007Cti/2007Cti-News/2007Cti-News-Content/0,4521,50102946+112009101100081,00,focus.html Ralph Lauren in row with website Boing Boing over 'Photoshopped' model Fashion house Ralph Lauren has become embroiled in an row with the website Boing Boing over a seemingly digitally altered image showing a dangerously thin model. By Tom Chivers Published: 4:39PM BST 08 Oct 2009 Boing Boing, a site devoted to the strange sights of the web, reposted a Ralph Lauren advert showing a model, Filippa Hamilton, looking so thin that her waist and hips were smaller than her head.
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POPSPhotog Says She Purposely Made Glenn Beck Look Bad On Time Cover Bad for Time, bad for the media, and bad for legitimate photographers. I can't believe they didn't know that the photographer they were hiring had no journalistic ethics. Or maybe they did and they just don't care since it fits right in with the story they are trying to portray.
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POPSBush As The Joker Obama’s predecessor endured 8 Years of Assassination Fascination. Actually, the “Assassinate Bush Chic” began even before the 2000 election, when Craig Kilborn flashed “snipers wanted” under a picture of Bush. So-called “newsmen” like Keith Olbermann repeatedly called the president “a fascist” and “a terrorist.” And Obama supporters can’t handle The Joker and the word “Socialism”? Politics is ugly, and it is often over-the-top but that’s not new. Photoshop happens; it’s a free country. I myself have been photoshopped next to a dancing condom, a commentary on my annoying habit of being a Catholic. Bob Owens amuses himself thusly: Frankly, I don’t get it. One embraces terrorists and madmen, is dedicated to anarchy and the destruction of capitalist society, and sends the population fleeing in horror from his creations. The other is a fictional character played by the late Heath Ledger. http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/04/how-quickly-they-forget/
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