Ralph Lauren model Filippa Hamilton: I was fired because I was too fat!

[Brains]

Wow, interesting retouching... They made her look like a lollipop!

[Crashoran]

I saw the retouched photo and laughed out loud, I should take this to my retouching class.

[donlfaulkner]

Originally Posted by Jeff_Green

No need to salute, Don! I will accept a bow.

[dmora]

Originally Posted by jeffkohn

No kidding, that retouch looks absolutely ridiculous; I can't believe somebody actually approved that.

I think it was for the Asia branch of RL if i read correctly... Asia has ridiculous concepts of "beauty" in their fashion arena. I'm pretty sure this is normal... i think.

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Originally Posted by bung

I still don't get why the fashion industry prefers such small models. I don't know anyone who thinks the typical high fashion model has an attractive body. I guess they are like politicians in that they feel the need to to tell us what we should like.

I prefer ladies built like London Andrews.

oh lawds iz i in heaven!

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

Some more info, when she was hired on in her teens she weighed 119 lbs and was not quite 5'10", now about 8 years later she is 5"10 and 120 lbs- a one lb weight increase so the body type that she was hired for and they went gonzo over is basically the same that it is now, so what is up? I guess they couldn't say that you are TOO OLD to fit our marketing campaign (no that is sueable discrimination), no they had to come up with this botched photo-shop out and then throw in the FAT thing. But she has been in the industry long enough to know the types that are in it and I guess she just pissed off one too many "people" and they found a way to bust her contract.

So she won't have any problems in finding work and she is running this thing as far as it will go to get the free publicity.