{"id":11043,"date":"2014-01-06T04:30:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T12:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145696.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=11043"},"modified":"2014-01-06T04:30:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T12:30:23","slug":"debenhams-catalog-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/debenhams-catalog-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Debenhams Catalog: People Come in All Shapes and Sizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Debenhams-Catalog-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"343\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11044\" alt=\"Debenhams Catalog\" src=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Debenhams-Catalog-1.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Debenhams-Catalog-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Debenhams-Catalog-1-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Debenhams-Catalog-1-290x166.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>British retailer Debenhams took a risk with their new catalog, and the results are beautiful!<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be honest with you guys: I had never heard of Debenhams before last week when I saw <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #993366;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/a-catalog-that-believes-reality-can-sell-clothes-better-than-photoshop\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #993366; text-decoration: underline;\">their catalog images on Upworthy<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>. The women in these photos are beautiful, stylish, and they&#8217;re not airbrushed or touched up. And it&#8217;s beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>I know, it seems crazy to say that a company is taking a risk by not Photoshopping their models or by including anything but size zero women, but that&#8217;s the fashion marketing landscape. Debenhams is bucking that trend with their newest catalog.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Debenhams-Catalog-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11045\" alt=\"Debenhams Catalog\" src=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Debenhams-Catalog-2.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Debenhams-Catalog-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Debenhams-Catalog-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>After reading the Upworthy piece, I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #993366;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/int.debenhams.com\/us\/shop\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #993366; text-decoration: underline;\">headed over to the Debenhams website<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> to see more photos, but it looks like their online catalog hasn&#8217;t quite caught up to the print one yet. I kind of get that: hiring a photographer is expensive, and rephotographing your whole line doesn&#8217;t make a lot of sense financially. I hope that as they phase out old products and\u00a0phase in new ones Debenhams will include more photos like the ones you&#8217;re seeing here!<\/p>\n<h2>Beyond Debenhams: Our Unrealistic Beauty Expectations<\/h2>\n<p>So, why are we so moved when we see photos like these? The problem is that most of the images we see in fashion marketing are drastically altered. I shared a photo last spring of a group of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #993366;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/2012\/04\/30\/models-without-photoshop\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #993366; text-decoration: underline;\">models without Photoshop<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, and in the year before that I <a href=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/2011\/05\/02\/beauty-myth-extreme-photoshop-makeover\/\" target=\"_blank\">shared this eye-opening video<\/a> showing how much retouching it takes to make a fashion photo look &#8220;perfect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It felt relevant enough to share again here:<\/p>\n<div id=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-counter-1\" class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper \" style=\"width:662px;\" data-g1-fluid-width=\"662\" data-g1-fluid-height=\"372\">\n<div class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-inner\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.19335347432%;\">\n\t       <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"662\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qcVTLyefWKw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\t       <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>What do you guys think about the new Debenhams catalog photos? <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British retailer Debenhams took a risk with their new catalog, and the results are beautiful! <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/debenhams-catalog-models\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false},"categories":[5082],"tags":[5291,4657,7610,6421,5575,6100,7611],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Debenhams-Catalog-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}