Chanel: Barny

Chanel Barny PSD
Do you work at Chanel? Did you do this? And this? Don't commit suicide, tell us how this train wreck happened!

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96 comments:

Setsuna said...

good grief! That's horrible!

Deaf Indian Muslim Anarchist! said...

that was soooo obviously taken from a runway show! lol

Katrina said...

And yet, they managed NOT to shop out the vericose veins?

Kyle said...

It's weird, it seems like the girl in the photo knows how awful it looks, even though she can't possibly...

Philangelus said...

Were the shoes part of the original model's picture? Because something about them looks even more wrong than the rest of her.

anewc2 said...

Maybe when they paint the wall, they can give the poor girl a sandwich. The creepiest thing about this one is, that elbow might not be shopped.

And then, the site itself. O. M. G.

Mikimu said...

Gimme back my feet....said the old lady they lifted those ankles/feet from...ugh!!!! This is horrible.

Murilo Silva said...

Is that a pillow behind her?

Charlene said...

How do those tights work? For that matter, how do those legs work?

This isn't a train wreck; it's a 200-car derailment!

Trekker4747 said...

I love the void of nothingness in the area to the left of her. And how the second model's (in the linl) legs looked like they're made of charred meat.

SpiffWilkie said...

She apparently busted through the wall (and a bit of the floor?), Kool-Aid Man style.

Trekker4747 said...

She's also a inhuman creature of the undead that casts no shadow.

Sara said...

Oh god this is one of the worst disasters I've seen on this site. And it's not even on a B movie DVD cover...CHANEL?! Come on!

mariecoady said...

Holy Lord.

Dan said...

This... HAS... to be on purpose. I refuse to believe something this horrible was actually approved.

jem said...

Aside from the PsD, they've mis-spelt 'sheaf' throughout the site.

viquezd said...

Look http://www.chanel.com/fashion/7-spring-summer-2010-chanel-collection-look-37,18#7-spring-summer-2010-chanel-collection-look-50,18

Detourvelle Photography said...

OMG....I would have been sacked if I turned this pile of SH*TE out !

viquezd said...

LOL!

3,14 said...

<a href="http://www.chanel.com/fashion/7-spring-summer-2010-chanel-collection-look-37,18#7-spring-summer-2010-chanel-collection-look-50,18>http://www.chanel.com/fashion/7-spring-summer-2010-chanel-collection-look-37,18#7-spring-summer-2010-chanel-collection-look-50,18</a> WTF!

3,14 said...

http://www.chanel.com/fashion/7-spring-summer-2010-chanel-collection-look-37,18#7-spring-summer-2010-chanel-collection-look-50,18 WTF!

Kirkburn said...

Utterly bizarre. That's how I'd describe the entirety of the Chanel fashion sections.

Ugly models in terrible clothes, with awful wigs, in badly photoshopped low resolution tasteless photos.

Who the hell is responsible for that mess?

If I saw someone wearing the clothes they advertise, I probably wouldn't be able to stop laughing.

David said...

My god. This has to be the shittest site I have ever seen. Congratulations PSD, no single image takes honours here, it is an entire, multibilliondollar-corp url. Seeing those feet on that shadowless ground makes me so angry I want to sell my own grandmother for soap. And then sue Chanel for the loss and distress this causes me. Bastards.

Not Fenimore said...

Oh, come on, you heartless bastards, stop making fun of the poor girl. Paper dolls are people too!

blixo said...

The bale of hay and wooden box are so clearly fake. Don't see anything else wrong with this picture. I think I'd look lovely in that dress. That is a dress, right? Oh, wait, it's a time/space eraser. I want one of those.

Luke DeLalio said...

This is killing me! Aside from the PsD, the clothes are... the models look like heroin addicts or concentration camp survivors covered by blown garbage. Awful.

AcemanJones said...

OMG OMG OMG, that is FUCKING DELICIOUS>

Daniel Gardner said...

It may be my wifi...but those Chanel pages load slooooow. If you're gonna showcase junk, at least make it fast! Garbage in, garbage out, quickly quickly!

Oh skinny happless model
your elbow reminds us
of the horror of war
while the background
attempts to be
cowboyish
and yet
a testament to photoshop gone very
very
bad.

Daniel Gardner said...

Chanel
in your attempt to be hip
you live up to your name
for as a channel of water
you bring us polution from
overseas.
From a graphics agency
despondent
disparing
overdosed
and flailing
random photoshop tools
like lightsabers
in the mouth of
a very
very
mad dog.

Daniel Gardner said...

Graphics designer
to you we throw the wreath.
You looked at common art
and dared to say
"Common..."
You looked at the average ad
and dared to say
"Average..."
You looked at the order on your desk
the clock fleeing to the deadline
and you
brave, brave graphics designer
said,
voice fierce,
"Screw this."
Your courage is monumental
your art is untranslatable.
You create as your masterpiece
a simple blend
of deep meaning
that no other artist
dare duplicate.
You ran the risk of job loss
and yet
bold
cold
brave
you stand before your boss.
You say, "The job's been done sir. It's accomplished.
I churned a diamond out of mere charcoal.
I turned an almond into sparkling carrot gold.
I was aware of your low expectations
but I struggled
battled
fought death itself
and coupled
blood with sweat
and finally met
your expectation.
I give you here
not an ad
not a picture
not a common average scenario
I give you something
yet unseen
a heavenly vision
a ghastly scene.
I give you
- beautiful, blessed, bountiful -
a midsummer's night dream.
Complete
with horrific elbows."
The boss would have stared for hours
but he was on the phone.
Talking.
To his ex yet again.
and loudly.
He did not see the piece
he did not hear the proud statement
before him.
He saw only the designer,
a weak, obsessed man
with ugly knees.
He came, he delivered
he left.
Forever a hero
forever a beautiful omen.
An infinite angel of freedom
among design.
That hopeful plea with
men everwhere:
photoshop is only a tool.
you are the god.
you make the rules.
Go - GO! - create,
and live.

*weeps*

PoCoLoco said...

Please use discretion and tact when making comments about this obviously alien race emerging from the white-hot tear in the space-time continuum. Their ways are not ours and it would be impolite - possibly dangerous - to comment on their disproportionate limbs, lack of earthly fashion sense. Perhaps it would be more tactful to compliment on her being differently beautiful.

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adler said...

oh no, it's not a PsD, it's normal that people don't cast shadows, the background looks very natural, the picture was taken with studio lights, all the skinny models look like that and there's nothing wrong with her dress. oh, and it's clearly intentional.

Diddlbiker said...

O.
My.
God.

pikszel said...

B R O Á F

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cristele said...

I think the models were actually dead. That's their last shot in their coffin, then the photoshop guy made them look alive one more time by wittingly putting a "decor" around.

Jackrabbit said...

Okay, this is actually my favorite out of this train wreck:

OMG! Run!

Sure, it's not a superstar disaster, but it's got everything a girl could want: awkward comping, airbrush, cardboard women with ankles bigger than their calves, man with unfortunate boot-crushed-in-threshing-machine accident, reaching through a woman's back to clutch her fragile spine...

Oh, and then there's the bad 'shopping. That's pretty atrocious, too.

polok koxol said...

@daniel: These are the direct pictures:

http://www.chanel.com/fashion/data/1024/hautdebit/rtw/18/_img/zoom/37.jpg

http://www.chanel.com/fashion/data/1024/hautdebit/rtw/18/_img/zoom/29.jpg

And yeah, there's nothing wrong with the images. They used these new cameras that can take pictures with different points of view, light and shadows, there is a weird white wall just behind every semitransparent fabric that sometimes grows to the left and their hair looks like that.

Monica said...

Hey, nothing wrong with the good ol' cut and paste technique, right?

Martin said...

BAD!

vsloboda said...

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Stephanie said...

i honestly don't understand how people DONT notice these things before they publish them
it blows my mind

Conformist138 said...

Are... are her legs even from the same picture as the rest of her body? Why on earth did they use a background that's actually a higher res than the model? Why why WHY did they then show us the image full-size on their site and give us a stunning glimpse of just how bad it really is? So many more questions... my head is going to explode. Chanel: I am available to hire. I could use some of the gold coins you swim in, and you, well, you just need some help.

Galileo said...

These are considered expensive clothing...right?
In that case why?

It is apparently a mishmash of leftover fabric?

MacArne said...

Did anyone notice the overall proportions? How small are these people??? or how large is a bail of hay or one of the wooden boards the background is made of? They are larger than her head f.G.s.!

MacArne said...

Has anyone noticed that there is something terribly wrong with the overall proportions?? I mean, what is that supposed to be in the background? A wooden shed? With wooden panels wider than the girls head? And the hay? The bails are about 40cm high. So the model must be, lets say 1.2 to 1.3m tall, including high heels and hairdo...

b said...

all these chanel models should eat more. maybe then they would cast shadows and fill the emptiness behind them, like normal people do.

Michelle said...

Suicide? My bet's on Karl Lagerfeld having already reprimanded Chanel's resident photoshopper... with fava beans and a chianti.

John Braine said...

Am I the only one looking at these thinking some poor soul had to cut out 53 of these? I'm surprised they're not a lot worse. I'm sure by number53 I'd be doing the roughest cutouts you've ever seen.

Chuck Billy said...

Is she aghost?
She´s no shadow

martij7au said...

It looks like this is the original pic...

http://www.chanel.com/fashion/8#8-ready-to-wear-spring-summer-2010-show-chanel-fashion-show-look-48,14,1

JJ said...

PSD once used to make a difference! Now it starts boring us with minor PS incidents by some international multi-billion dollar fashion company with a reputation for high quality products.

Everyone knows that international multi-billion dollar fashion companies with a reputation for high quality products are crap at PS!

I don't want any more daily international multi-billion dollar fashion companies with a reputation for high quality products incidents on this page anymore!

Please go back to the good old ripped black-market DVD cover accidents that make everyone happy!

WV: prabu - that says everything!

Mad Izatie said...

Even the pixelation doesn't hide how hideous the clothes are.

Chanel is a luxury brand; items cost up to thousands of dollars EACH. And they can't find enough money to hire a competent graphic designer? Preferably someone who can see properly?

I guess the global recession is taking it's toll. Next thing you know, they're calling garbage bags and dirty diapers couture.

Robbie said...

I'm still so stunned by the fashion disaster that I haven't got round to the Photoshopping yet.

Matt said...

This has got to be one of the three worst PsDs I've ever seen.

JJ said...

I have just been looking at it for a while and now I realized what happened.

The conversation probably went like this:

"This model is abhorrently squint-eyed, maybe you can do something with PS do distract the viewer..."

"I'll do my very best..."

Laurens said...

Now we're talkin' This is a PsD first class. This the way screw up things. OMG

Portia said...

Just checked the original pic and it's the wooden background that's photo-shopped. That's why it looks like a pillow..lol
This is bad, real bad Michael Jackson.

Brett said...

I think I recognize that barn from other, um, "low budget" photoshoots.

Der Hexenhammer said...

Vampires don´t cast shadows...
New moon is the new fashion trend...

Miranda said...

WV = SPLAT. I shit you not.

Haaaaaaaaaaaa.... this is hysterical! Worst photochop ever. Man, you know someone is getting shitcanned over this one.

................

All right, people, let's do it! Wide angle lenses! Multiple lighting sources! Colored balloons! OH MY GOD IT'S FULL OF OWLS!!!

kalli6 said...

I think photohopping those pics was harder than the designer thought and they just gave up.
The background is so simple, how hard would it have been to set up a fake barn set in a studio.

Robbie said...

I love the flat, opaque slab of paint trying to look like a wisp of chiffon over her left shoulder.

Tim W said...

They actually fixed it on their site, now... the sand even looks about right around her shoes - different background now. There are no footprints though - must have been lowered by helicopter.
Her size still looks odd compared to background hay bales. Those may be hay bales - 20 to 30 feet high.

Matt said...

What IS that white space floating behind her?

roballen said...

Forget the horrible PS job - my question is one of motive: WHY did they WANT the models to look like they were standing in a stockyard? Who is supposed to buy these dresses? Your average farmer's daughter?

also - love the *poetry* this one inspired. Rock on, PSD readers!

Jonny Dade said...

Jeez, okay so who's gonna explain why on their website they have a row of girls stood in a barn? I don't get the barn thing, what's that about? Horses go in barns, not.. oh hang on forget it, nothing wrong here. ~(apart from the white void she's walking out of)

on a lighter note, the captcha on this post was 'borat' ha ha, lol.

r0ni said...

Looking on style.com it turned out that she was cut out from a show in a barn and raplaced into a barn.
http://www.style.com/fashionshows/complete/slideshow/S2010RTW-CHANEL?event=show1982&designer=design_house22&trend=&iphoto=46

Amazing!

Christina said...

@ Polok, thanks for the link to the direct pictures, they load a lot faster!

You can also go through them one by one by changing the number, the models in this one made me laugh...I suppose they're trying to jump on the undead vampire craze though: http://www.chanel.com/fashion/data/1024/hautdebit/rtw/18/_img/zoom/08.jpg

Christina said...

They really need to feed their models

I love the fact that the skirt casts a dark shadow yet she doesn't

And another sheer not so sheer

And everyone with that male model makes me laugh so hard, I'm not sure why, but I just can't stop laughing at those pictures.

s said...

Models heads are too big.
Human's head is one-eight of a length of the body. In pictures models heads are only one-seventh.

To who are these clothes meant to if not humans?

Karlie said...

How does this designer have a job? My technology-fearing grandmother could do a better job than this.

And why are the models "posing" in a barn?

The entire Chanel site makes me want to scream and cry. And hurt people.

cattypex said...

Wow.

1) When will fashion houses stop importing poor starving veiny and exhausted Eastern Bloc orphans?

2) When is wearing Chanel EVER about being in a BARN? Unless you buy a T shirt with the logo from the dude in the parking lot.....

3) When does Quality Control start in the Chanel Art Department?

4) When will the black-clad androgynous ghost of Coco roll in & kick some ass?

Lisa said...

When I first saw the photo, I was a bit confused; I didn't see anything wrong with it. Yeah, it's a butt-ugly dress, and that girl needs to eat a meal or two, but it didn't look badly 'shopped.

Then I scrolled down a bit and... OMG!!! OMG!!! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH HER LEGS??? AND HER FEET??? AND THOSE SHOES???

That's about the worst PSD I've seen on this site in a long time!

TwistedTool said...

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S O M E B O D Y B U R N M Y E Y E S !!! N O W !!!!

The Pilgrim said...

this is so bad I had to check the original runway picture (it's not exactly the same one but probably taken a few seconds apart) which you can see here:
http://www.style.com/fashionshows/complete/S2010RTW-CHANEL?page=2

cristele said...

I think this one was left out of the selection...wonder why? Horse size ass with tiny (hairy?) legs with cut out elbow, that's something worth seeing
http://www.chanel.com/fashion/7-spring-summer-2010-chanel-collection-look-29,18#7-spring-summer-2010-chanel-collection-look-32,18

llama,llama not yo mama said...

wv: stlyga

St Lyga, the relatively unknown patron saint of OMGWTFBBQ.

That said... Chanel *used* to stand for style, chic and timelessness. Poor Mme. Chanel must be rolling in her grave.

And a shout out to Tabris. ;-) Fancy meeting you here.

Philangelus said...

Hey, EmpressG! I first found this site through your weblog.

ewaffle said...

3.14--fashion so light it will feel (and look) like you are floating on air.

WV: unsore. What my eyes aren't after seeing the Chanel spread.

Fenevad said...

I'm surprised nobody has come up with old 80s Ethiopian jokes for these, especially the one Jackrabbit linked to. These folks make them look well nourished.

WV = dicabl, presumably because the two of them resemble cables?

DIvyblaze said...

Oopsboobs. Looks like the photoeditor for Chanel forgot a little something. Somethings.

http://www.chanel.com/fashion/7-spring-summer-2010-chanel-collection-look-29,18#7-spring-summer-2010-chanel-collection-look-30,18

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Eek!

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Iain said...

It's completely bizarre that all the original shots were taken live at a fashion show (also set in a "barn") and look much, much better than the "retouched" ones:

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/fullscreen/S2010RTW-CHANEL/

Melencolia said...

She's so skinny, her shadow is merely a hairline

Also, Daniel Gardner, please marry me!

Isha said...

Well, I see that ugly is making a fashion comeback. Onassis they ain't...

Sabina said...

I think it might be on purpose. All of them on the website are like that. It is awful, whether it is accidental or not.

Sara said...

This brings to mind a little girl playing dress up.

sto1ensou1 said...

She doesn't have a shadow! LoL!

Iacus said...

Probably homeschooling, am I right?

La'Trice said...

This one has me crackin up! THe white in the picture? Uhhh,I think you forgot something...

Jonny Dade said...

Such a shame, becuase i'm starting to find her weirdly attractive...

Muscleduck said...

I've never worked with photoshop but I bet I can do a better job at this after only following a 10 minute tutorial.

chromatic said...

These new after-the-fact-tools are so amazing! We will never have to shoot on location again!

...Yeah, real high-class Chanel...