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Topshop withdraws advertisement of skinny model after complaints

FRIDAY, 15 JUL. 2011, 18:33

Author: Laura

Section:Lifestyle

Finally a healthy response to an unhealthy appearance!
The fashion blog The Gloss informed about Topshop being forced to remove an ad which featured a very skinny model - Codie Young, but only after complaints that the image could encourage anorexia. Apparently "the angle this image has been shot at accentuated Codie's proportions, making her head look bigger and neck longer in proportion to her body" was the Topshop reply.

See the picture:

Source. What do you think? Was it the bad angle or Photoshop that made her look so awkwardly? The worrying thing is that Topshop saw nothing wrong in showing the original ad to it's increasingly younger target market. Had it not been for the public pressure, the ad would have stayed



I thing girls in size 8 and bigger look much more feminine, do you?
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