Proenza Schouler: Toxic Waist

You can never be too rich or too thin, but Proenza Schouler are working on it.

Proenza Schouler

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Just vacuum out your entire intestinal tract and you too can be this thin and sexy *cough hack*  by jeanne

If she ever ate a whole cracker she'd just blow up! by zeppo
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35 comments:

meklu said...

My God that's awful! What did the world do to deserve this?

waldobaby said...

There are other pics of this waif there, and she's skinny. Very skinny. That, and the heroin face means that, to these retailers, sick sells. The other pics suggest that this is deliberate, an editorial disaster, if you will.

waldobaby said...

I DO like the term "Toxic Waist Syndrome", though.

TwistedTool said...

She might actually have been twisted (oh, look at my nickname!) several times around her waist..

Melencolia said...

She probably snapped in two when she barfed in her hair.

Christie said...

You know, corsets are making a comeback . . . maybe she's into them.

Jean said...

She's clearly some sort of alien insectoid queen, what with the waist and the ability to twist her spine 180 degrees around like that.

ltjbukem said...

My girlfriend CANNOT do that!

tome said...

I must immediately buy these clothes that no one can wear. They can hang in the closet until thrown out.

Donna said...

Ironic. The stick figure people I used to draw in third grade looks like her.

ewaffle said...

So which one is she? Proenza or Schouler?

John Riley said...

Jeebus! If you DARE, go to the website, go to collections, Fall 2010 collection. Look at #10 and tell me it isn't Dr. Frankenfurter from Rocky Horror Picture Show. Please, for love of Cthulhu, tell me it's not!

Cripes, looking through all of those pictures makes me think that they are told to get ready for a show by (1) Not eating for a week; (2) Not sleeping for three days (the better to have dark circles under their eyes); (3) No washing or brushing your hair for a minimum of two days; and (4) There is a trained sniper hiding in the spots who WILL shoot you dead if you dare to smile. Don't even think about it.

Carolyn said...

Oh dear. She looks healthy.

Mad Izatie said...

Dude, what?! Why?! Is the sight of a normal hip and waist so ugly that they have to taper it down to a child's proportion?! SOMEONE FEED THE MODELS! And get that overzealous photoshopper away from the computer!

Angela said...

There's nothing like suggested consumption to sell Barbie clothes to adults!

doka said...

Her expression looks like she had a great, big bowl (whoops, I mean a few small morsels) of Grumpy Flakes for breakfast.

zeppo said...

If she ever ate a whole cracker she'd just blow up!

Randon said...

Schurely this has to be a hoax. Schurely no-one - you know, with eyes - thought this was a good idea.

W/V: shionct. The noise this girl's waist would make if she (a) were actually that size and (b) put a hat on.

jambalie said...

John Riley - I wish I could tell you that, I do...but I can't.

And you are so right about the models. They all look like crack whores who spent the prior week chained in a basement away from sunlight. Who the hell thinks that is in any way, shape or form a desirable look for women?

jambalie said...

"Let me show you Derelicte. It is a fashion...inspired by the very homeless...the crack whores that make this...so unique."

DuffPaddy said...

To mondegreen Ian Dury, "What a waist". But on this occasion, I DO mind. Yugh!

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peterkelly said...

This is probably NOT a PSD!! I am a photographer and know girls like that. Just in case anyone worries, I urge them to put on weght, but I'm not influential so it likely falls on deaf ears.

Guy Phenix said...

hahaha some great laughs.

Guy
www.guyphenix.com

kaypie said...

Is it the same girl from this ANTM promo? Her waist is that small in real life.

http://deceiver.com/2010/08/11/tyra-banks-goes-gaga-over-antm-contestants-waspy-waist/

tom said...

WOW! as a professional medical photographer...let me say *HUUUUURRRRRLLLL***. Half the models in the "collection" are straight up trannys...as in "HOLY CRAP! 'her' adams apple is bigger than mine!" not the part of a car that converts kinetic motion to torque...which i think would have been much more visually appealing. I literally shoot corpses that look better than these "models". I get the whole edgy/goth thng but this is just gross...and i document surgeries and autopsies for a living.

Miranda said...

Damn, that's grotesque!

waldobaby said...

@kaypie: at the six second mark you can see she's wearing a corset. Looks sturdy, too.

Jeanne said...

Just vacuum out your entire intestinal tract and you too can be this thin and sexy *cough hack*

BecBennett said...

No, it's just that creepy girl from the America's Next Top Model audition. You know the one, the judge dude put his hands the full way around her waist...

operafantomet said...

So her feet points forward... while her torso is turned towards us? I think she has one of those flexible waists, and that she has turned around at least three times before this photo was taken. This means her waist is actually a knot at this point. That would explain it!

Gotham said...

thats too funny, she looks hideous, what was the creator thinking in coming up with such a thing!!!

Ravyn Skye said...

This is just... OH DEAR.

I'm all for hiring the blind, but is so wrong to not give them positions like 'Art Director'? We all have to play to our strengths and weaknesses, so maybe we can just let them be music producers instead?

We'll get a nice deaf music producer to swap places... You know, like the one that produced that John Tesh album?

divinityphotography said...

Could it be this girl? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1302689/Americas-Next-Top-Model-star-waist-held-mans-hand.html

Because her waist really is that small. :/

Current Resident said...

Clothing companies are starting to get smart about these things, and are putting out photos like this on purpose as bait to attract the attention of sites like PhotoshopDisasters and Jezebel. I'm sure that before today, very few of of us (if any) had ever heard of "Proenza Schouler." For some (companies, designers, entertainers, etc.), any attention is good attention, especially when they are trying to get their name out there.