By Marriam Mossalli

Speaking of Lena Dunham… by having Vogue lipo her image in its editorials, she sends another misguided message to young girls… don’t get me wrong, retouching is a natural part of published images… take away bags under eyes, smooth out blotchy skin… fine. We expect our stars to look picture perfect… but to reduce yourself 3 sizes, elongate proportions… you’re telling the world that there’s something to be fixed about your body… and that to me, just goes against the ideals I want our future women digesting… and I thought Lena was all about the REAL woman? Guess that too was also fake.

This tub photo has the most changes. The tweaks include:

• Shoulder/back of neck shaved down, lengthening the neck
• Line near mouth on face removed
• Jawline sharpened
• Neckline of dress pulled up — cleavage altered, armpit covered
• Waist/hip smoothed, made narrower
• Elbow shadow/dimple removed
• Hands smoothed

Here’s the cover:

Just a few changes were made.

• Eyebrow on the right filled out
• Neck made thinner
• Head made smaller — so that eyes appear larger
• Jawline made narrower
• Shoulder on right side of image dropped down — gives the appearance of a longer neck

Some of the dots on the placket of the shirt were removed so as not to interfere with the cover copy — that’s typical and makes sense.

Oh, and then there’s this fun weirdness: An image of Lena pasted onto a Brooklyn street.

Stock pigeon photo! [Update: Vogue, via Instagram, has informed the world that this pigeon-on-the-street shoot did in fact take place, but it's still clear that the final product is a composite of selections from multiple shots (see below for more explanation on that). "Any questions?" they ask. Uh, yes! How did this shot happen?]

While Dunham has not been radically Photoshopped, it’s clearer than ever what kind of womanVogue finds Vogue-worthy: The taller, longer-limbed, svelter version of reality. Vogue is not interested in reality, of course. The photographs are meant to be a fantasy, art. That’s why someone (Ms. Leibovitz?) took the time to Photoshop a pigeon on Dunham’s head — and paste her studio image onto an outdoor background.

It also looks like Dunham and Driver were pasted into an intersection in front of Manhattan’s Flatiron building. A shot we received shows her in a similar pose on his shoulders — but not in the same location. Doesn’t matter — Vogue puts you where it wants you to be!

Source:
Jezebel.com
@voguemagazine