When I saw the pictures of the new Louis Vuitton campaign with Madonna in Dagens Nyheter first I did not even recognised the queen of pop. The pictures are so extremely photoshopped that the woman on the picture could be every random model in this world. Every 18-year old model. No wrinkles, no mimic, nothing! She looks like a porcelain doll.
Everybody knows that Madonna is 50 and no 50-year old woman has such a smooth face. Of course, I don’t like my first wrinkles and I totally understand that it’s almost impossible to avoid the beauty mania and striving for the perfect body in the music, film and fashion industry. I’m really not a person who stands up for natural beauty. However, these pictures are so obviously photoshopped to make her look younger that I find them ridiculous. She looks more like her daughter than herself.
If it wasn’t Madonna on the pictures I would find them very beautiful and sophisticated but the fact that a 50-year old pop star obviously cannot accept her age made me laugh. I thought about the movie “The curious case of Benjamin Button” with Brad Pitt when I saw the pictures for the first time since I had never seen her looking younger.
I am wondering if Madonna, the designer Marc Jacobs and all the other people who are involved in the campaign do not realise that nobody believes that Madonna looks so young or if they photoshopped it so much to catch the attention of the media or if they just don’t care!?
Pictures by: Steven Meisel
If you did not recognised Madonna on these pics, please go to the optician! Your comments show that you belong to the middle ages, a period where ageism, a clear form of racism, was a day to day practice.
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“ageism, a clear form of racism.”
A winner in the Dumbest Comment of the Day sweepstakes.
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Its obvious that she is photoshopped, but who isnt? nicely written, and the troll made my day
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I completely agree with you. Staying “young and beautiful” became such an obsession. in my opinion, Madonna would look better naturally, than like this damn freak of nature (well- photoshop actually)!
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