An American denim retailer has come under fire for crudely Photoshopping “thigh gaps” onto its plus-sized jeans.
Old Navy’s entire fuller-figured collection has received the airbrush treatment, digitally removing a wedge from between the mannequin’s legs to give her the desirable “thigh gap” teenagers worldwide seem to be obsessed with at the moment.
The obvious retouching outraged customers, who took to the label’s Facebook page to complain, leading the retailer to deny any digital editing of the images, despite the obvious photographic evidence to the contrary.
Sadly, Old Navy isn’t the only retailer to alter its images to sell products – here are some of the worst offenders in our Photoshop hall of shame.
Old Navy’s entire fuller-figured collection has received the airbrush treatment, digitally removing a wedge from between the mannequin’s legs to give her a desirable “thigh gap”.
Photoshopping “thigh gaps” onto models has become popular in recent months. Target had a shocker with these crudely-retouched swimsuit images last week.
H&M exaggerated this model’s thigh gap to ridiculous proportions.
Victoria’s Secret carved a significant amount out of this model’s thighs to achieve the desired gap.
A thigh gap was added to these jeans.
J Crew’s latest Photoshop fail.
Joe’s Jean’s airbrushed model Alexandra Tomlinson’s thigh to make it as thin as her forearm.
This catalogue model appears to have lost an elbow in the retouching process.
Where has this H&M model’s face gone? And what is going on with her hand?
Ralph Lauren caused controversy when it dramatically slimmed down this model.
Another Ralph Lauren model with an impossibly tiny waist and hips.
This model got a skin make-over (left) and an odd hand growth.
Victoria’s Secret was slammed for slimming down this model’s shapely legs.
This cosmetics model’s arm is unnaturally straight in this ad.
US retailer Ann Taylor seems to have lost this model’s arm in this ad.
Are these the world’s longest legs or the work of retouching?
Victoria’s Secret was too heavy-handed slimming this model’s waist.
Another case of the missing arm, this time for Victoria’s Secret.
International fashion magazine Numero made Karlie Kloss appear more full-figured.
Half of Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine’s torso has disappeared in Russian Vogue.
Designer David Koma’s sketch of Beyonce is quite different to the real thing, causing controversy.
Roberto Cavalli also smoothed over Beyonce’s signature curves in a recent sketch.
This magazine employed the airbrushing tool to help their claim Kate was pregnant.
Beyonce’s skin is suspiciously milky-white on the cover of her latest album.
Mexico’s Maxim magazine went too far slimming down this model’s waist.
Twilight star Kristen Stewart’s arm has vanished on the cover of Glamour.
This Gucci ad slimmed the model’s legs to flamingo-like proportions.
This model’s legs were stretched and slimmed beyond recognition in this online listing.
Beyonce Knowles had her famously curvy thighs slimmed down by US Harper’s Bazaar.
Beyonce was reportedly furious with her image being airbrushed in this campaign for H&M.
UK Grazia was criticised for making Kate Middleton’s waist slimmer.
Slender Keira Knightley had her modest chest inflated for this film poster.
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