Pick up an August 2025 issue of Vogue and you’ll come across an advertisement for the brand Guess featuring a stunning model. Yet tucked away in small print is a startling admission: She isn’t real.
For decades, fashion images have been retouched. But this isn’t airbrushing a real person; it’s a “person” created from scratch, a digital composite of data points, engineered to appear as a beautiful ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Tamilla Triantoro, Quinnipiac University (THE CONVERSATION) Pick up an August 2025 ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) For decades, fashion images have been retouched. But this isn’t airbrushing a real ...