"Like a Plucked Emu"

Melissa McEwan of Shakespeare's Sister has a series of posts called "Impossibly Beautiful," tracking dubious fashion-industry standards. One theme has been the use of photo-editing software to make models look thinner (or in the case of some size-zero models, slightly less skeletal). Here's her latest example, of which she writes: "Quite honestly, this is less about being Photoshopped into impossible beauty than it is about being Photoshopped into looking impossibly like a plucked emu posing with a purse."

Go here for the full item and for links to the other installments in the series. (And it's not purely a feminist project: Look what they did to poor Clive Owen.)

McEwen credits Photoshop Disasters with noticing the Chanel image.