Photoshop also used to make models appear healthier....

Women's Wear Daily ran a piece yesterday stating that some models are so skinny and unhealthy looking, that magazines are using photoshop to beef them up a bit before printing their images.

From the article:

"Several editors have been quietly ordering the retouching of gaunt model shots to make them look, well, a little fatter. "A model shows up and you realize she's too thin and has lost weight since the booking, but the show must go on," said Allure editor in chief Linda Wells. "When the film comes to me, I realize I don't want to see hip bones and ribs in the magazine."

Of course, "healthy" and "fat" are the important words here...because those definitions aren't fixed.... as evidenced by a quote from Lucky editor in chief, Kim France:

"It's never something where you made the girl look heavy," said France . "It's just a quiet, small change."

Well, I don't think anyone wants models to look FAT or unhealthy... so maybe those are the wrong words.  Maybe we should be talking about "authentic" and "realistic"... Interesting stuff either way...

Any thoughts?

Comments

[champagne]

models should be average size and weight !

[Japi]

If models where of average size and weight they wouldn't be models. Think about what a model (the noun, not the person) is. A model is what you are trying to achieve, a car, a computer-generated character, or... a person. It's is supposed to be idealized.

Of course, they've taken it a bit far.

Sorry if my english is bad.