Ralph Lauren | Nordstrom Photoshop Waist Controversy

Thanks to Tavi’s tip at Jezebel, the world is buzzing over yet another Ralph Lauren photoshop disaster, this time involving Nordstrom’s polo shirt photos of Tao Okamoto. 

Nordstrom says “leave us out of the discussion”, offering up a before and after Photoshop photos of Tao Okamoto.  Beyond removing Tao’s breast nipple and a few wrinkles from the photo, Nordstrom says they didn’t slim the waist. Honestly, we don’t see that this is another Ralph Lauren Photoshop disaster.

Our thoughts:

1) Like Ralph Lauren’s model Ubah Hassan, Tao Okamoto is very thin. Her stats are listed as size 4, but this photo of her suggests that she’s thinner. If this body is a size 4 — fat by fashion industry standards — we’re out of words.

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