Ralph Lauren can bite my shiny ass!

[arcturusrann]

For those who saw the title of my post, this refers to the fact that I will not buy anything from Ralph Lauren ever again.  Why?  Because not only did he and his company retouch a picture to make a models waist smaller than her head (see below):

Comments

[perfectflaw75]

That picture just looks nasty.

Too bad these days all pictures with people are being PhotoShopped...

[arcturusrann]

Personally, I've always disliked the term "Photoshopped", because really, all professional photographs should be photoshopped (for color/tint correction and fine-tuning for effect) or remove extraneous elements (such as litter in a street scene). But when they actually distort the structure itself, that is just so inappropriate and I hope these advertisers are beginning to get a clue from the backlash that seems to be steadily growing.

[perfectflaw75]

One of the interesting articles I found today on that topic:
http://www.afterellen.com/blog/dorothysnarker/yet-another-photoshop-controversey-begs-the-question-can-it-be-stopped

And I guess that's why I'll never be a professional photographer; I refuse to use "PhotoShop" as I like my pictures flawed.

[danaewinters]

Woah, that pic doesn't look even REMOTELY realistic. It's like they shrunk her height AND her width, from the chest to the navel. Weird.

Not that I got much of their brand in the first place (they're not exactly plus-size friendly from the looks of it), but I agree that they made way too much of a fuss over the criticism.

[arcturusrann]

Well, to be fair, I've never been RL's target audience. I've only (very) occasionally bought RL merch, usually when it was on sale at a department store and was the lowest priced quality shirt (since I think that's all I ever bought).

I definitely didn't think highly enough of RL before to go out of my way to find them (like I do Levi's). But my point was that were I to find myself in that position again, I'd buy the more expensive item, because this kind of attempt to bludgeon away our freedoms is inexcusable.

[arcturusrann]

Jeez, what a bunch of a-holes.