Photoshop faux pas

A new image on the lingerie company’s website pictures a model wearing a light blue linen romper on a beach. Standard, right? Wrong! Aside from a dodgy airbrushing job which has left the model with unnaturally thin legs, her thighs have been given a bizarre concave shape.

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Victoria's Secret have used the same disproportioned image to show the garment in black, but when the model is pictured in the cream jumpsuit, her legs appear to be naturally fuller, with an otherwise absent shine and shadow.

Fashion blogs around the world are appalled at Victoria’s Secret’s photoshop fails, and have likened the image to one released just last month of supermodel Marisa Miller, whose arm was deleted in the digital enhancing – and we use that term loosely – process.

The Styleite team is “totally creeped out by the way this model’s airbrushed thighs don’t appear to connect to the rest of her body. The lack of shadow where her leg meets the romper is also indicative of an awful cut-and-paste job.” Ouch.

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While Victoria’ Secret may be a repeat offender, they are not the only major brand under scrutiny. Lifestyle blog, The Gloss, are concerned about the incessant use of airbrushing across other fashion empires.

"When will big brands like Victoria’s Secret (and Ralph Lauren and Ann Taylor and H&M) learn that no one finds this appealing?" it said.

Ralph Lauren was in the spotlight during 2009 after overzealously retouching a series of campaign images.

Fashion heavyweight Filippa Hamilton was pictured defying biology, as the width of her waist was narrower than her head.

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The following week, another image surfaced of Valentina Zelyaeva, where her hips and thighs had been carved down to emaciation. An original version of the skeletal image was leaked, and confirmed Ralph Lauren’s compulsive cropping.