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Macy's Joins Ralph Lauren in PhotoShop Disaster Zone

By Jim Edwards | Nov 23, 2009

Macy’s (M) has followed Ralph Lauren into PhotoShop disaster territory (image below). Adorning one of their mall-based sites in New Jersey is this image of a woman whose thigh is longer than her torso, and whose torso is thinner than said thigh. Of course, it could be the camera angle and a fish-eye lens. Ri-i-i-ight. But that still doesn’t explain the horrible injury to her right shoulder.

The picture flanks the entrance to Macy’s in the Newport mall in Jersey City, N.J., where the most fashionable bloggers do their Christmas shopping.

Tags: Macy's, photoshop

Jim Edwards, a former managing editor of Adweek, has covered drug marketing at Brandweek for four years, and is a former Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University's business and journalism schools. Follow him on Twitter or send him an email.

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