The ad featured a photo of her modified so that her hip bones appear narrower than her head and her waist seems cartoonishly small. In addition, her legs appear so thin as to belong to a science classroom skeleton rather than a living human being.
Filippa Hamilton was also recently fired by Ralph Lauren. Although the company denies it, Ms. Hamilton asserts that she was fired because the fashion designer thought her body was too bulky to fit in sample sizes.
Ralph Lauren has a history of portraying extreme thinness (the photo of Filippa Hamilton is not the first bizarrely modified picture to find its way into the designer's fashion spreads). The National Organization for Women is demanding further apology from the designer, and was planning to hold its fourth annual "Love Your Body" celebration on Oct. 21, 2009.
(Source: www.latimes.com)
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