There was a documentary screened at the Sundance Film Festival this year called The September Issue
, in which filmmaker R.J. Cutler showed what the folks at Vogue went through in putting together its September 2007 issue (pictured at right).
The film is primarily focused on the personal and professional life of Vogue editor Anna Wintour, and features a scene where Wintour criticizes Sienna Miller’s teeth and hair and demands they be digitally altered for the cover.
The Daily Mirror reports: The documentary shows how the actress was airbrushed within an inch of her life for the shoot with famed photographer Mario Testino back in 2007.
They then took one photo of her face and super-imposed it on a separate picture of her body. Talk about Celebrity Head Swap! Vogue is now trying to heal any rift and is backtracking big-time.
Head of communications Patrick O’Connell said: “While some retouching is a fact for any cover, no one is more convinced of Ms Miller’s beauty than Vogue.” Pass that designer sick bucket, Patrick. “The fact she appeared on the magazine’s September cover, our most important issue of the year, is a testimony to this truth,” he adds. [read the whole article]
Thanks to Kyle for the heads up!
Related articles and media…
Tooth hurts, Sienna [Daily Mirror]
Vogue Photoshopped Sienna Miller’s Head Onto Different Body [Huffington Post]
Sienna Miller’s Vogue Photoshop Fiasco! [Hollywood.com]
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