Those who know me know that I enjoy walking. I sometimes walk for stress relief, sometimes for a bit of exercise and sometimes because it helps me think. As a form of transportation, man has yet to improve upon it.
In ancient Rome, walking was a marker of culture and status. And there were apparently “correct” ways to walk.
Catching sight of his daughter walking too quickly, and her husband walking too “softly” (mollius), Cicero is said to have quipped to his daughter “Walk like your husband”, and to his son-in-law “Walk like your wife”. It’s still not a great laugh maybe, but we can begin to get the point.
H&M designs a body that can better display clothes made for humans than humans can, then “dresses” it by drawing on its clothes, and digitally pastes on the heads of real women in post-production.
I have to admit, I’ve never heard of H&M. I also have to admit, I probably would not have noticed that the models were computer generated, as it seems like every photo I see of a fashion model is so heavily airbrushed, it might as well be computer generated.
So it’s not really surprising or new, just the next step down the path we’re already on.
