Image via CelebrityDogWatcher.com
Kimora Lee Simmons’ new advert for her fragrance “Dare Me” has her head superimposed onto a model from French Vogue‘s (March 2005 volume) body.
In case you missed it, this is the advert,
This is the magazine,
And this is what Kimora actually looks like,
Image via Babble.com
As you can see some major photoshopping went on here and it doesn’t take a genius to see it.
Close-up and reversed,
It doesn’t even look like they only superimposed the lower half of her body, it looks like Baby Phat superimposed a few models bodies together and stuck Kimora’s head onto it. I mean even their shorts are relatively the same.
A couple things come to mind:-
- Is there an image copyright infringement case here for Vogue against Simmons?
- If so, should Vogue pursue it?
- Who gave the advertising and graphic design team the “okay” to do this? And furthermore, who thought it was a smart idea?
- Also, did anyone not think that the general public would have been smart enough to know what Kimora Lee Simmons REALLY looks like? I mean she does have a show on television and is in all of her own advertisements for the Baby Phat brand, so …umm…right.
Seriously? Seriously! Seriously.
Personally, I think Baby Phat should pull the advert and if I were Vogue I wouldn’t be very pleased right now.
I say time for Nuclear Wintour to unleash a bit of her wrath…
What will Vogue and Baby Phat do?
Questions. Questions. Questions.
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This makes me kind of sad. Kimora is incredibly beautiful — and a completely “real” looking woman. Now that I have a daughter that is becoming more and more aware of the world around her, these types of things really frustrate me. I mean, if Kimora needs to be so harshly photoshopped (according to the “powers that be,”) then what does that mean for the rest of us?!
As for your question, I do think that Vogue or the photographer could be justified in looking into some sort of infringement. It seems pretty obvious what happened! — Tara
So what about the very first picture with Kimoara holding the dog? When was that taken? She looks super tiny there like the photoshopped body in the advert…
I don't want to sound rude or anything, but something's wrong with your eyes
if you can't tell the difference because it's obviously photoshopped from
Vouge and Kimora is obviously not a size double 0-2.
That's what I'm asking, is the very 1st picture from CelebrityDogWatcher photoshopped? I wasn't sure given you didn't refer to it as a photoshopped image, simply included it without any references to it in your post. You showed the adverts and other images and spoke to them, however the first picture has no remarks about it, just randomly placed there.
It's just an image of her. Mind you, it's a good picture of her
post-modeling days.
She looks nothing like the Dare Me advert at all for years now. And the
picture you are referring to, yes, she does look rather skinny, it in, but
not leggy and as tiny as how she was photoshopped (and very obviously
superimposed) via a Vogue cover.
Google her, you'll see
Just a simple question because I didn't believe that she is currently that skinny, could have done without the inappropriate responses.
I didn't mean to be inappropriate, but your first comment seemed sarcastic.
So I responded as such. I 'got' where you were actually coming from w/ the
second one.
Re: Kimora, she's not that skinny and I don't think she ever was, even in
her 'true' modeling days…
See below:-
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1109/1273553859_… <– that's
from her modeling days
http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/2008…
that's what she looks like now
And this is her television show website, you'll def. see in the video clips
of her, she looks nothing like the Dare Me advert:-
http://www.mystyle.com/mystyle/shows/kimora/ind…
Check it out. Hope that helps.