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Ralph Lauren Doesn’t Know What A Woman Is
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Apparently Ralph Lauren has no idea what a woman is, at least not the typical woman. The women in his world apparently have heads bigger than their waists and apparently subsist on several grains of rice per day. So, naturally, when one of his models makes the mistake of letting herself look normal, she is swiftly fired (despite her 8 year relationship with the company). Not only that, but her most recent advertisement gets photoshopped beyond any semblance of human proportions.
The model in question is Filippa Hamilton, 23, as reported by Britain’s Daily Mail, and here is her grotesquely photoshopped ad side by side with a real photo of her:
Her reaction to the ad, which was released after she was fired, was, “I saw my face in this extremely skinny girl – which is not me… It makes me sad. It makes me think that Ralph Lauren wants to have this kind of image – and it’s not healthy, it’s not right… And it’s not a good example. When you see this picture, young women will look at this and think it’s normal, and it’s not… I think they owe American women an apology, a big apology… I’m very proud of what I look like, and I think a role model should look healthy.”
Ralph Lauren denied the claim that she was fired for being too fat and released a statement saying that she was fired, “‘as a result of her inability to meet the obligations under her contract”—i.e., she got too fat. They also claimed that “the image in question was mistakenly released and used in a department store in Japan and was not the approved image which ran in the U.S. We take full responsibility…” which is interesting if you stop to consider the claim that they put all that work into photoshopping the picture for no actual public viewing purposes.
So, when are we actually going to see normal looking women modeling fashion? I’m sick and tired of seeing emaciated women parading around in ads, pretending to be normal, when they seem so sickly that I can’t even imagine how they hold themselves upright for more than the length of a photo shoot at a time. When can we go back to the time when curves were glorified and women in magazines and ads actually looked healthy?
Just to leave you with a nice image… here’s Christina Hendricks, from Mad Men, who I think should be a role model for fashion models everywhere:
