Retouch Redux: Did Ralph Lauren Photoshop Another Emaciated Model? (PHOTOS)

PhotoshopDisasters has published what they claim is another freakishly retouched Ralph Lauren ad. The picture of model Valentina Zelyaeva wearing all gray -- and suffering from a bad case of pelvis-smaller-than-head-syndrome -- was found in a window display in Sydney, Australia.

Ralph Lauren hasn't commented on the new photo.

This image follows last week's Ralph Lauren retouching revelation: the designer apologized for fixing up a shot of size 4 Filippa Hamilton, and Hamilton spoke out, saying she was fired for being too fat.

Here's the photo as Photoshop Disasters ran it:

Here's model Valentina Zelyaeva in her normal state, as seen at Fashion's Night Out on September 10th.

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Comments

[rockyb26]

11:18 PM on 10/19/2009

that can't be real. does he have retinits pigmentosa or something?

[jbinders]

07:20 PM on 10/19/2009

Has anyone see RL? He's ridiculous and has like a 24" waist so it makes sense why he wants every picture to look like him...FREAK!

[kidolympic]

03:54 PM on 10/19/2009

this is a very tight look if she could have lizard skin from cheeks down to upper neck;
She has a very hot lizard look.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugq6frGlKVQ&feature=related
What herbs does she take for her lizard look?

[Altoids]

10:45 AM on 10/19/2009

Ralph Lauren would dismiss these photoshop jobs as merely being poor artwork - but what we should question is whether they are instead company policy. These are not mere technical mishaps on the part of an artist - they are spurred by a company that pushes an unhealthy body image on women for the purpose of profiting off them.

[Conk]

10:22 AM on 10/19/2009

Only one word fits: Repulsive.

[ROLtheWolf]

11:56 PM on 10/18/2009

Boy. Ralph Lauren hates women. He wants preteen boys in drag, more like.

[judiNJ]

07:57 PM on 10/18/2009

That is not a normal body shape. Whoever did the Photoshop should go back to art school.

[robynr]

02:37 PM on 10/18/2009

she looks like one of those aliens people are always being abducted & probed by.

[MicheleCA]

01:47 PM on 10/18/2009

Does a fashion house exist that doesn't use models that are far below a healthy body weight?

I'm glad RL has brought all this up. It needs addressing. But it's certainly not unique to RL.

Maybe, just maybe, we could strive toward healthy body images for women. Not emaciated or augmented. Ones of health, fitness, natural curves. It just makes too much sense.

[branchwater1113]

01:02 PM on 10/18/2009

Grow up, folks. Advertisers and fashion mags have been doctoring models' photos to exaggerate appealing characteristics since long before there was a PHOTSHOP. The recent RL shots aren't unusual ... just so obviously over the top that they are ridiculous.

[wm1066]

01:17 PM on 10/18/2009

As a photographer for the last 35 years I know what could be done to an image before photoshop, and elongating the image or making an area skinnier was not something that could be done.

[OzzieTonto]

07:36 PM on 10/18/2009

Rest assured. wm, it can be done now, in a number of ways - in fact, it's so easy, it's attracted some nit-wit who can't draw the human body to make a hash of it.

[Altoids]

10:43 AM on 10/19/2009

Clearly, anyone criticizing RL for these pictures is doing so because he/she is immature, and therefore needs to "grow up."

[twistedrascal]

12:43 PM on 10/18/2009

Yuuuumm makes me want to be a lesbian

[terkid]

12:25 PM on 10/18/2009

Are you people out of your minds? Two such scandalous mishaps in a week.

Really, Ralph - get your s**t together.

[writergal28]

10:26 PM on 10/17/2009

If the fashion industry wants to use size 0, stick it on a short girl. Otherwise, please use size 6 (and I mean a 2009 size 6, not a 1950s size 6, which is a size 0 in today's terms, anyway).

By the way, I am still asking you media people to this challenge:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iGq0f2Dg90

And this video was made a couple of years ago.

[merrill1]

07:51 PM on 10/17/2009

She has also been stretched vertically. In real life photo, waist to chin is approximately two head measurements, in photoshopped version - three.

[JannielB]

07:22 PM on 10/17/2009

Gross and sick. Sick and gross.