Yesterday W magazine revealed the cover - along with images of the cover story - of their special tenth anniversary edition with supermodels and best friends Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid, and it's got people talking. Talking for the wrong reasons that is.
The cover started to gain attention when people had a closer look at the image and noticed one small problem... where are their knees? Their knees seem to have been so heavily photoshopped that they have simple disappeared. And once you spot it, you can't unsee it, especially when you take a look at Kendall's other knee, which hasn't been touched in the slightest.
(Is Gigi's arm really like that?)
People have even started to compare the models to beloved child's toy, Barbie. With some going as far as saying that Barbie looks more real than the models.
So how did this blunder manage to happen? The editing and publishing process of putting together a magazine is pretty extenstive and all about attention to detail, so how did the magazine miss this? Well a spokesperson for the magazine said: "The images of Kendall and Gigi are part of a project by artists Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin, who are known for their deliberate use of digital technology, combining distortions with make-up and prosthetics."
Maybe the magazine should have thought to tell us this before all this controversy? But then again, maybe that was the point - after all it has got everyone talking about it.
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