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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Lifestyle
Alaina Demopoulos

Model says her face was edited with AI to look white: ‘It’s very dehumanizing’

side by side images from tiktok showing wu and a digitally altered image of a white woman
Shereen Wu says the designer Michael Costello altered her runway photo to appear white. Photograph: TikTok user @shereenwu

A Taiwanese American model says a well-known fashion designer uploaded a digitally altered runway photo that made her appear white.

In a TikTok about the incident that has been viewed 1.8m times in the last week, Shereen Wu says Michael Costello, a designer who has worked with Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, and Celine Dion, posted a photo to his Instagram from a recent Los Angeles fashion show. The photo depicts Wu in the slinky black ballgown that she walked the runway in – but her face has been changed, made to appear as if she is a white woman.

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