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We could’t help but share this excellent piece of socially-aware street art from our friends over at Healthy is the New Skinny. Apparently, a wheatpaste artist in Germany found H&M‘s highly Photoshopped ads (which got a lot of flak for using excessively tan models) to be in need of a little real-time editing…so they added a Photoshop toolbar to help out. More
Remember when the hottest Hollywood accessory was a gestating baby? Well move over, fetuses—the latest paparazzi catnip is mascara-free lashes and unpainted lips. If ‘jumped the shark’ is a thing we say anymore, then the ‘celebs without makeup‘ thing has definitely jumped the shark. More
Lawmakers in Israel yesterday passed a law banning the use of ‘underweight’ models on catwalks or in commercials. Women and men seeking modeling jobs would have to be certified by a doctor as having a body mass index of no less than 18.5. I sympathize with the lawmaker’s intent, which is to reduce eating disorders and promote healthy body image. But measures like this are too invasive for my liking. And BMI is a bad measure for determining body size or overall health. More
The Japanese diet has long been lauded as one of the healthiest on the planet, yielding a population with high longevity and low rates of heart disease, diabetes and obesity. Despite that, shocking new statistics indicate that their health is taking a turn for the worse, with 29% of Japanese women now considered underweight. New reports blame the change on increasingly skinny models and pressure to diet and stay thin. Meanwhile, Japanese men are increasingly obese. More
Breaking! Blisstree readers aren’t fools, and we have proof: 72% draw a distinction between mannequins and photoshopped “virtual models.” When we criticized their use of digitally enhanced fake bodies topped by photos of real model’s heads to model their clothes online, they came back at us on Twitter, saying: “H&M’s virtual models are only used as mannequins, just as we do in-store for ladieswear and menswear.” Were we crazy for thinking that the difference between mannequins and photoshopped fake bodies was fairly obvious? Most of you didn’t think so. More
Yesterday, we posted about H&M‘s weird new method of selling clothes online: Sticking them on virtual models. But H&M didn’t like what we had to say. Their rebuke? They’re not doing anything worse than using mannequins
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If you thought the cleverly photoshopped bodies on the magazine covers at the check-out aisle were bad, wait until you see this: The bodies on most of the models that clothing retailer, H&M, uses on its website are computer-generated fakes. More
Score one for real women with real bodies everywhere.
After receiving a complaint that the ads for Drop Dead, a British clothing line, were irresponsible and offensive for featuring a too-thin underweight model in a bikini, the Advertising Standards Authority has banned the ads. More
Fat women could trim down if only they weren’t so addicted to junk food. Fat women use food as a love/sex substitute. Fat women pig out on ice cream every night. Find attitudes like those offensive? So does Nancy Upton (and, uh, for the record, so do I). She deliberately set out to skewer those notions in a series of photographs she submitted to American Apparel’s ‘The Next Big Thing’ plus-sized model search. Then she won the contest … More
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So an LA Fitness poll has crowned Dame Helen Mirren 2011′s ‘Body of the Year’—how cool is that? The 66-year-old actress even beat out the likes of Pippa Middleton and Elle MacPherson for the honor, taking almost 18% of the vote for best female body.
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Fashion model Ana Sofia has the kind of runway (and bikini) body that many women aspire to and envy: She’s not just thin; she’s toned and shapely. While her Portuguese genes aren’t doing her any disservice, her modeling assets don’t come 100% naturally, either: She puts in time at the gym and watches what she eats, especially when she has a photo shoot or show coming up. Can you do the same? Sure. But Ana Sofia’s health routine proves that looking runway-ready is a full time job (and did we mention her Portuguese genes?) More
By this point, we all know (at least intellectually) that many of the images we see in magazines and advertisements are airbrushed and photoshopped to make starlets and models look like anything but you and me (no matter how good you and me look!). But it’s hard to remember this sometimes, when you’re looking at the latest gorgeous photo shoot with Mila Kunis or Sarah Jessica Parker or some Eastern European runway model with a 14-inch waist. For that reason, we never tire of seeing the ‘before’ shots of these touched up photos. So let’s take a look at some of the waist-nipping, thigh-shaving, skin-smoothing shenanigans, found everywhere from magazines to billboards and even ads for hair dye. More
In an attempt to discourage women from aspiring to the utterly impossible, the American Medical Association has formally taken a stand against photoshopping, hoping to change the presence of unrealistic bodies and faces flaunted on magazine covers. More
I usually flip through fitness clothing catalogs (wait, this isn’t 1990 — I click through shopping websites) wondering how the items really fit when it’s on a “real” woman. I usually order a few pairs of pants, hoping that at least one of them won’t squeeze and fold in all the wrong places, and make sure the company has a good return policy for the rest. But I recently met up with some of the women behind Athleta, a fitness clothing company owned by Gap Inc., at a yoga class hosted by Athleta and taught by one of their models, Drisana Carey, and discovered that not all fitness models are waifs who happen to lift a dumbbell or two before a shoot.
