W Photoshopped Demi Moore’s Head Onto Anja Rubik’s Body for the December Cover

[iluvjeisa]

Trying to find the exact frame is meaningless. The fact is I can't see a single part of Demi's W-body that seems to not be identical to Anja's. The lighting etc is not important, what I'd like to see is where someone can pinpoint some physiological difference....

 

[DaisyLovesJack]

^In some ways, yes. People have become so enchanted with the technique that the people dealing with the retouching bit have their technical exams and enough artistic interest to take an absolutely flawless young woman like Valentina and make her into his own ideal figure (which interestingly enough is an Adonis with breasts). It has nothing to do with art and all to do with technology. What we are seeing now is the end result of technology/craft over art.

Jason Tuchman obviously has a sense for art. But some of the people doing the actual work on the lower levels have become so reliant on someone higher up to possess the artistic qualities and lead them toward a reasonable image, that freak accidents like the Ralph Lauren pictures occur. Ralph Lauren is one thing, though, W is entirely another. It is one of the top selling pseudo-avantgarde magazine in the US. Not even W can get it together at this point.

If you don't have the money to hire decent teams to produce an image that is not even physiologically feasible, then skip Demi and go to the real thing - Anja.

Demi is gorgeous, but she is 40+ and apparently they no longer have the staff able to do the technical work, so just get a good photographer, a cheap model (compared to celeb) and get a decent photo...

And even when it comes to non-catastrophical images from the 90s onward - it's far too techno-focused, art hasn't even taken the back seat, it's resting at home or even resting in Diana Vreeland's coffin.

It’s not just the artistic integrity that concerns me but the warped minds that people possess. Moreover, it doesn't seem like the designers or magazines care at all!

 

[Little Tiny]

Photoshopped, cut 'n paste ..... it's all the same lie ..... and tends to lower the self-esteem of young girls everywhere.

Exactly,what does this say about being a woman in this world!Magazines are such lies these days.We are all human and look great in different ways and that is what should be expressed worldwide and daily in and out of magazines.
So now "the beautiful people"don't pass the beauty standards in magazines?

 

[mamasarollingsto]

I think the best way to end this would be to make some outtakes from the photoshoot available so people can see how "real" the cover really is

definitely, although i don't see why all the drama over *this* particular shoot.. everyone knows that magazines photoshop.

 

[jun3machina]

^ i think because it's so blatantly done. those who follow fashion would ID the runway shot quickly. it's not like they retouched some moles or made her boobs bigger. they completely replaced her body, and with one that is physically so much different than her own. It looks weird to me. it did the first time i saw it. like her body is tan and lean and almost sickly and bronzed, whereas demis face is lighter and dead in the eyes. it really just creates an unsettling image to me personally, taking the whole image/weight/ right and wrong factors out of it all.

 

[r0b0tj0n3z]

Magazines would be so awesome if they completely nixed airbrushing.

As good for society as that might be, I would probably never buy another magazine again if they did not retouch.
I know that probably sounds super shallow, but unretouched celebrities can get pretty gruesome.

 

[Fontenrose]

Demi Moore's lawyers have revived this controversy by threatening Boingboing and the photographer who bet the photo was edited. Meanwhile W Korea puts the picture on the cover... but 'FIXES' THE HIP!!!!

See link for cover:

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/28/demi-moores-lawyers.html

 

[Les_Sucettes]

As good for society as that might be, I would probably never buy another magazine again if they did not retouch.
I know that probably sounds super shallow, but unretouched celebrities can get pretty gruesome.

I agree, I have nothing against good retouching and i think it's demeaning to women to think they have such low self esteem that they can't handle airbrushing, but there are certainly some dodgy retouchers out there and apparently some of them are working for some top mags(Vanity Fair comes to mind...).

But this goes beyond retouching, that is so clearly Anja's body that i'm surprised some people are still doubting.

 

[Laybaak]

W cover put on Anja's runway pic. It's just Demi's thighs that are a little bigger, or more like positioned differently.

flickr- nanna garmendia

 

[LUXXX]

I think she has turned this into a bigger deal than it is...the idea that she wants people to believe that she is all natural is delusional. She is most praised for her amazing plastic surgery...or should I say alleged...

 

[McClaire]

I think she has turned this into a bigger deal than it is...the idea that she wants people to believe that she is all natural is delusional. She is most praised for her amazing plastic surgery...or should I say alleged...

I wholeheartedly agree. Whenever people mention her it's always followed up by 'and her plastic surgeons are Gods' or something along those lines.

 

[iluvjeisa]

Heh, they're just so lucky most people don't realize how many frames you get on the runway. People keep trying to compare the light and the lower parts of the dress between the two photos, not realizing there are hundreds or even thousands of images of the same dress on Anja in all sorts of positions....free for the editorial team to pick from.

What I really want is someone who can show how the proportions in the body are different between Anja and the W shot of Demi. I just cannot see anything different...and Anja has a very characteristic shoulder/arm composition and posture...can't really see how Demi would incidentally be identical to that...

 

[Echoes]

When I was examining it, I swear I found some differences in the outfit itself. Could the original shoot/show have used more than one dress? Could they have been slightly different?

I didn't keep the shots I used to compare, so I can't prove my point even if it did matter.

 

[Squizree]

As ridiculous as the claim sounds I dont blame people for raising it. Photoshopping has gone too far and people don't look like people anymore. Demi Moore is still 47 whether she likes it or not.

 

[Fontenrose]

Photoshop Disasters has listed another Demi Moore ad, this one for overdoing the retouch. Her skin looks unreal, it looks like each finger has had the natural wrinkles removed on the knuckles, and there is something funny about the arm pit perhaps.

photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com

It is much better when your model looks like a living person, not a glistening smooth plastic doll.

 

[mamasarollingsto]

i don't really care if they photoshop a little - i don't want to see demi moore's real 47 year old skin in an ad.. i don't see much wrong with the ad above.

 

[Caroliiine]

^ And people wonder why celebrities get plastic surgery. When they show us what they really look like, we don't want to see it. When they fix it (through plastic surgery or digital enhancement) so they can match our unrealistic expectations, we condemn them for being insecure about their looks.

 

[mamasarollingsto]

not quite what i meant. i think demi looks fab, but if she's going to be in an advertisment, it would be unrealistic to put in every last pore, freckly and wrinkle. as long as they don't go over the top, it is fine to me.

ps i don't condemn celebrities for being insecure if they get plastic surgery. each to their own.

 

[Fontenrose]

Here is what the excessive retouching was supposed to 'improve' upon...

Jezebel, apparently from the same shoot

Jezebel: it's clear that to the contemporary beauty industry, being gorgeous is not enough. Breasts need lifting, hair needs thickening and cloning, little bits of flesh around the shoulders and upper torso that might bulge out when lying down on a hard surface need siphoning off, cleavage needs enhancing, the little lines on palms and neck that show skin, you know, creases with movement — those need to be liquified away. And skin needs a plasticky airbrushing, a total post-production resurfacing,

her hands in the ad look just like the smooth plastic hand of a barbie doll

 

[jml2]

removing the knuckle wrinkles on fingers is going waaay too far