From the title by itself, I was expecting a simple change to skin tone, which would have been bad enough. Reading the story and looking at the pic made me realize that things are much, much worse. What the FUCK.

I hate how much the AI term gets thrown around. This just looks like regular Photoshop.

That altered pic definitely looks unnatural. Even by fashion model standards.

Wow that is incredibly disrespectful.

The whole job is kinda dehumanising

If I hadn't read the headline, and just looked at the pictures, my first reaction wouldn't that they changed they changed her race, but that they faked a ton of makeup, added highlights, and "enhanced" the outfit's shoulders.

Edited to look synthetic, more like. That's what mid-grade blow-up dolls look like

She should be objecting to all the edits, not just the eye shape and overly filtered skin tones. Why did they need to edit her nose, or make that one giant dumbo ear? how could anyone think this mess is an improvent on the model’s great looks?

The high fashion industry has always been a corrupt garbage fire.

Go right now to some normal store's website and check out the clothing section. You are going to see normal looking people smiling. Why shouldn't they be smiling? They have a nice sweater on.

High fashion it is all about taking these very unusual looking people, having them drain their face of touch of humanity, selling clothing that fits no one and costs thousands of dollars. And it is all performative. A game the super rich and their lackies are playing against other super rich and their lackies. If you had two investments available to you today the first is some "tech" company with an idea for a social media site and the other is a fashion maker the tech company (with it's 5% chance of success) has a higher chance of success.

Lay down with dogs, get up with flies. This whitewashing is disgusting but not shocking especially given the decades of photo editing these shitstains have done.

I was expecting something like what they did to Mindy Kaling where they lightened her skin (way too much) but they didn't make her look white, they straight up replaced her head.

I'd be pissed too. They didn't just change her skin tone, they completely took her out of the photo. For models who are sometimes paid in exposure, this is like yanking that pay away from her. Whatever photoshop is done, she needs to at least look like it's her for her to be able to get the benefits from doing the work.

But even models who are paid money, there should be laws against making them look like someone completely different, in terms of the brand that they work for.

And that designer is a pos for sharing that photo, even if a fan did send it to him as "fan art". Beyond the face change being in bad taste, he's a professional, so he should be promoting the actual model who walked for him.

I expected to be paid in exposure

Oh dear...