By Tamara Abraham


Photoshop fail? This Victoria's Secret model appears to have lost part of her thighs, which have been given an unnatural shape


It's not the first time Victoria's Secret has been caught out. But the lingerie company is the subject of ridicule yet again, after it appeared to have airbrushed out large parts of a model's thighs.

The beauty, who wore a bright blue linen beach romper, was pictured with unnaturally thin legs in a picture posted on the company's website. She had also been given a bizarre concave shape to her inner thighs.

Today fashion blogs slammed the company, comparing the photograph to one taken last year of Marisa Miller, whose arm was removed in the digital retouching process.


Styleite wrote: 'We’re 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.'

The Gloss compared it to aggressive campaign airbrushing by other major brands, including Ralph Lauren and Ann Taylor.

'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.

Victoria's Secret had used the same image to show a black version of the garment, but the model wearing the cream colourway seemed to have a more realistic leg shape, with the shadows and shine that the others lack.

Spot the difference: The model in the cream romper had more natural leg shape, with shadows and shine that the other colourways, including black (right) lack

Aggressive airbrushing: Victoria's Secret came under fire last year after model Marisa Miller's arm was removed in the digital retouching process


The lingerie company is the latest in a series of high-profile brands that have been accused of overzealous retouching

Ralph Lauren came under fire two years ago after a series of campaign images in which its models were Photoshopped to look impossibly skinny.

Model Filippa Hamilton's waist was made so small, it was narrower in width than her head

Unrealistic: Heavy-handed art direction made models Valentina Zelyaeva (left) and Filippa Hamilton (right) impossibly thin in Ralph Lauren campaigns in 2009


Just a week later, another image emerged of Valentina Zelyaeva in which her hips and thighs had been whittled down to an almost skeletal degree. An original, unretouched version served as evidence of the label's heavy-handed art direction .

And last year Ann Taylor revealed its Photoshop faux pas in a thumbnail version of an image on its website, showing how a model's waist had been narrowed by several inches.

A spokesman for Victoria's Secret did not return MailOnline's request for a comment this morning.


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