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.
