Edited by Lester Brathwaite
The lithe and leggy Karlie Kloss gets in touch with her inner glamourpuss for Oscar de la Renta‘s spring 2012 ad campaign.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Madonna gets up close and personal with her favorite person in all the world — herself — in the first image from her new lifestyle brand Truth or Dare‘s ad campaign, shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott and styled by Fabien Baron.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Photoshop can work wonders. Miracles really. How else can you explain Kristen Stewart appearing almost human and nearly interesting in W‘s September issue? But as much as it can be used for good, Photoshop is more often used for evil; subtly — and sometimes blatantly — erasing the imperfections of models and celebrities. Now that a computer science professor at Dartmouth has introduced a new software tool to distinguish, on a scale from 1-5, how much a photo has been altered — your tax dollars hard at work — is this the end of Photoshop fakery?
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Oscar winner, Dior J’adore‘r and all-around brick house, Charlize Theron garners her fifth Vogue cover, this time shot by Annie Leibovitz for the mag’s December issue.
Edited by Samantha Lim
Sasha Beyonce Fierce graces the November cover of Harper’s Bazaar and she. is. werqing. it. (Thanks to our fave Terry Richardson, of course). With hair bigger than her baby bump will ever be, she dishes about her pregnancy, motherhood, marriage, her hip hop hubbie king Jay-Z, and more. And although we are fully aware how those photoshopped Barbie twigs could never be her real thighs, we’ve at least got the best real quotes and behind the scenes pics right here…
Edited by Samantha Lim
Holy Photoshop, Kelly Besimon looks good, looks terrifying, is on the cover of the September issue of Shape Magazine. What does she have to say about the spray painted, Stretch Armstrong version of herself? ”My body is like a Ferrari. I know what it needs to run well — and that doesn’t include drugs, alcohol, or cigarettes.” Sure Kelly.
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-Supermodel of the world, Gisele Bündchen Brady, made Balenciaga‘s Nicolas Ghesquière change out the shoes in the Spring 2011 show because she was apparently “not used to walking with heels anymore.” Can’t walk in heels?! That’s like finding out Santa Claus doesn’t exist or Anna Wintour is actually human. 
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- A Sex and the City prequel with Blake Lively as Samantha, Selena Gomez as Charlotte, Emma Roberts as Miranda and Elizabeth Olsen as Carrie? Someone’s clearly enjoying a game of fantasy fagball. [Fashionista]
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“OMG how does she get her skin so clear?” “Those cheekbones could cut glass – mine are so fat.” “Whoa cleavage! Why doesn’t mine look that perfect?”
The burning questions you hear when walking past the magazines in a bookstore, drug store or bodega. The thoughts that come to mind when you page through the glossy, celebrity-filled pages of Cosmopolitan, Shape, GQ or Glamour. The answers come in the form of digital plastic surgery. In addition to the dietitians, trainers, stylists, hair and makeup teams and radical pressure to uphold the skewed and artificial American standard of beauty, behind every celebrity is a talented and seasoned retoucher. With the help of Photoshop, faces are contoured, cleavage is shadowed, fat is sucked away and muscles are defined with the strategic use of a few very powerful digital tools. Read more…
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- John Galliano‘s court date is set for June 22nd in Paris, meaning if he gets the full 6 months for making racial slurs, he’ll miss Chanukkah. What a shanda! [Huffington Post]
