While we don’t think the fashion industry alone can be held responsible for eating disorders and distorted body images, this certainly doesn’t help their case. We would love to do first hand investigation into the saying that you can never be too rich, but there has to be some acceptance that there is such a thing as too thin. These praying mantis style figures are neither natural or humanly possible of anyone over the age of 12. Fantasy in fashion is one thing, this type of fiction is another.

When the luxury extraterrestrial market opens up, images like these will no doubt spark interest. Until then, it’s obvious someone in the “retouching” department needs to come back down to earth. For comparison’s sake, the black and white photo is of a woman who survived Holocaust-era starvation experiments. Her hips and torso are larger than those in the heavily altered image of Zelyaeva.

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While Photoshop Disasters’ webhost has removed the original post after receiving a DMCA takedown notice for copyright infringement, BoingBoing’s provider didn’t cave. Within 24 hours, the story – and advertising photo, have hit the homepage of Digg, been reblogged on numerous other sites, and sent around the twitterverse over 1300 times. Legal action and threats to feed the models are going back and forth, but at the end of the day BoingBoing is on firm legal ground. Fair use in the US has long held for the incorporation of copyrighted materials for criticism or parody, even on the wild wild web.

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