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Donatella Versace Says Madonna's Ads (and Abs) Were Not Retouched
Madonna fronts the new spring/summer 2015 Versace campaign—her third set of RTW ads for the fashion brand (she previously posed back in 1995, and in 2005, if you notice a pattern happening). And while she's not the oldest face to land a major campaign this season, her age is proving to be a talking point, because she looks good at 56 years old.
Suspiciously good, some would argue, given the long-standing tradition of copious retouching and other Photoshop trickery in fashion imagery. But that's not so, says Versace designer Donatella Versace. In an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera (translated by Glamour), Donatella said that Madonna "did not have her abdomen or arms retouched." She then muddies the waters a little by saying, "I believe that there were only the set and the filters and the rest," because the phrase "the rest" could mean a lot of things in the fashion photography business (i.e. very generous lighting).
But still, Madonna was apparently much less hassle than, say, Lady Gaga, who fronted Versace ads last year. For Gaga and her team, "the final approval of the photo was a melee." As it happens though, Gaga's newest fashion campaign (for Japanese beauty brand Shiseido) is going to be all selfies, and there's only so many filters you can throw onto an Instagram snap.
Top 20 Most Pirated Movies of 2014 Led by ‘Wolf of Wall Street,’ ‘Frozen,’ ‘Gravity’
Pirates have very specific tastes. They love buried treasure, Captain Crunch cereal, and, according to a list of the 20 most torrented films of the year, pirates sure are crazy about superheroes, too.
Variety published the revealing list after pulling data from Excipio, a security firm that tracks just this sort of online plunder. Of the 20 films, three superhero movies — X-Men: Days of Future Past, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Thor: The Dark World — landed in the top 10.
1. “The Wolf of Wall Street”: 30.035 million (Paramount, Dec. 25, 2013)
2. “Frozen”: 29.919 million (Disney, Nov. 27, 2013)
3. “RoboCop”*: 29.879 million (MGM, Feb. 12, 2014; and Orion, July 17, 1987)
4. “Gravity”: 29.357 million (Warner Bros., Oct. 4, 2013)
5. “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”: 27.627 million (Warner Bros., Dec. 13, 2013)
6. “Thor: The Dark World”: 25.749 million (Disney/Marvel, Nov. 8, 2013)
7. “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”: 25.628 million (Disney/Marvel, April 4, 2014)
8. “The Legend of Hercules”: 25.137 million (Summit, Jan. 10, 2014)
9. “X-Men: Days of Future Past”: 24.380 million (20th Century Fox, May 23, 2014)
10. “12 Years a Slave”: 23.653 million (Fox Searchlight, Oct. 18, 2013)
11. “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”: 23.543 million (Lionsgate, Nov. 22, 2013)
12. “American Hustle”: 23.143 million (Sony/Columbia, Dec. 13, 2013)
13. “300: Rise of an Empire”: 23.096 million (Warner Bros., March 7, 2014)
14. “Transformers: Age of Extinction”: 21.65 million (Paramount, June 27, 2014)
15. “Godzilla”: 20.956 million (Warner Bros., May 16, 2014)
16. “Noah”: 20.334 million (Paramount, March 28, 2014)
17. “Divergent”: 20.312 million (Lionsgate, March 21, 2014)
18. “Edge of Tomorrow”: 20.299 million (Warner Bros., June 6, 2014)
19. “Captain Phillips”: 19.817 million (Sony/Columbia, Oct. 11, 2013)
20. “Lone Survivor”: 19.130 million (Universal, Dec. 25, 2013)