Five-foot-eight, 120-pound model Filippa Hamilton-Palmstierna said goodbye to Ralph Lauren after four successful years for the label. But unlike models who get too old for the job, Hamilton-Palmstierna’s contract ran out because “of her inability to meet the obligations under her contract with [Ralph Lauren].” According to Hamilton-Palmstierna, some obsessively photoshopped images (above) led her down the path to unemployment, her perfectly proportional body not up to the “skinny” modeling industry’s standards. Knock, knock- Hamilton-Palmstierna is NOT fat and photoshopped images are NOT real.

Thanks NY Mag!

Ana Claudia Michels stars in the Rosa Chá Spring 2010 campaign. Don’t you dare try to tell me that there isn’t Photoshop going on here!

Ralph Lauren’s legal team is in full gear, threatening online publishers for displaying the American designers latest photoshop disaster. We’ve got the image for you right after the jump.

French politicians have proposed a law that would involve stamping a “health warning” on photographs of models that have been Photoshopped to be more appealing.

With magazines and advertisements constantly in front of our eyes, we’re often confronted with the image of those picture perfect models. But when Twiggy’s Oil for Olay ads hit stands in Britain, there seemed to be quite an uproar about that picture perfect image. Lawmakers were concerned about the effect Twiggy’s photoshopped image could eventually have on young girls. Though this isn’t the first time Britain has been concerned with faux images, it seems as though this time they’re really making the effort to ban them.

LINKAGE: NYMag

Raquel Zimmermann got in touch with both her masculine and feminine sides for Fall 2009’s Jean Paul Gaultier campaign. That is some genius photoshopping.

Thanks Fashionologie!

Gisele stars in this campaign, sans baby bump thanks to some creepy photoshop. London Fog commented that they photoshopped her baby bump to “respect her privacy”. Too bad everyone who didn’t know has now been informed of her pregnancy because they released this statement. Privacy fail.

SOURCE: Just Jared

We all remember Beth Ditto’s voluptuous nude body on the cover of the debut issue of LOVE magazine. The fashion world has taken Beth under their wing as their token plus-size obsession in an attempt to dispel rumors that they only put 85-pound models on their covers. Apparently Beth’s body wasn’t full-figured enough, they had to photoshop her bigger for the cover of LOVE. Click to see the excerpt from her UK Times Online interview.

Couture might be out of our price range, but it certainly remains near and dear to our hearts in Flair’s April 2009 editorial ”La Sera è Couture.” Shot by Magnus Unnar, model Charlotte di Calypso brings natural life and movement to the glorified garb, showing the wearable side of couture. The spread is almost amateur, sometimes blurry or shadowed, enhancing the naturally grounded appeal of a girl lucky enough to wear couture. What a breath of fresh air in an age where photoshop ruins everything natural about….well…everything. 

GALLERY: SPREAD UM: “La Sera è Couture” Flair April 2009

Thanks Fashion Gone Rogue! 

Great video on NY Times about the lies of photoshop. Would you guys buy magazines if photoshop was illegal and you could see what people really look like? Just wondering…

The Daily Mirror’s 3AM Girls have uncovered a horrid, yet not surprising truth. THIS ENTIRE IMAGE IS A LIE!!!

In a behind-the-scenes documentary, The September Issue, fearsome Vogue editor Anna Wintour claims Miller is too “toothy” and staff were worried she has “too many fillings” and “unruly hair”….

 

The documentary shows how the actress was airbrushed within an inch of her life for the shoot with famed photographer Mario Testino back in 2007. They then took one photo of her face and super-imposed it on a separate picture of her body.

LINKAGE: Tooth Hurts, Sienna

Street art has gotten smart in Berlin.

An adbuster reminds train riders about the heavy use of Photoshop in ads and magazines, picking on Britney Spears, Leona Lewis, and Christina Aguilera.

Train station photos from Flickr.

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Ugly Betty might have given us a fun little fact about the wicked world of fashion photoshopping. One minute a thick latina with braces and glasses, the next a pencil thin white model. No wonder they’re able to get rid of Fergie’s meth-marks and make her look like a half-way human being on the cover of Cosmo, or in Page Six Magazine’s case, make African model Iman look white and pasty.