This image has been circulating in fashion magazines recently - it was then picked up by bloggers interested in poor quality Photoshopping.
Don't worry: this woman doesn't have a head bigger than her pelvis, and hopefully isn't this thin. However, we should still worry: the image is used in global campaign to imply that this kind of shape and size constitutes beauty.
Not for me it doesn't. I'm not exactly picky (how could I be?), but physically fragile to this degree just doesn't do it for me. How could this young lady keep up with the Map Twats.
Ralph Lauren has been well and truly nicked for the terrible Photoshopping, but has responded to concern about the actual values encoded in this image by… sending legal letters to bloggers reproducing it, despite the legal standard of 'fair use' for comment. What happens when you threaten bloggers? Their friends reproduce it everywhere - I got it from here.
I'm not a Ralph Lauren-wearer and can't therefore boycott the company's products. But we could all mail them, and even ask them whether their 'philanthropy' is anything more than the usual corporate nonsense.
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What's even worse is that the model, Filippa Hamilton (23), has now been fired by Ralph Lauren for breach of contract (i.e being so fat that she forced them to photoshop her pics to make her look presentable). She's 178 cm tall and weighs 54 kilos. The fashion industry live on another planet to the rest of us.
This is one of the reasons why I don´t like men choosing for women what is beautiful. Think John Ruskin, the critic of art and beauty; he married a woman by all means beautiful and charming and despised her for being a woman of blood and flesh, not a marmor statue. Six years later she fled to his friend Millais and had with him 8 children. And the point is: stay away from beauty critics and stick to REAL men/women.
I believe if more people did that, there would be less anorexic girls around.
You'd be up there like a vole up a conifer.
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