Fashion Editor Responds to Lorde's Photoshopping Tweet

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On Wednesday, Lorde tweeted a picture from a recent magazine shoot with the caption: "apart from the fact that i'm pretty sure this magazine gave me a new nose (:|), i really like this photo [sic]." It's probably the nicest, most benign sort-of-maybe accusation to hit the internet in awhile.

But, the story didn't die there. The EIC of FASHION Magazine, Bernadete Morra, issued a statement on Thursday that reads: "I can assure you, FASHION Magazine did not give Lorde a new nose. Sometimes lighting or camera angles can give the impression that things look smaller, larger or different than they really are."

This tells us two things: a) the name of the magazine in which the questionable photo appeared (Lorde didn't originally call it out) and b) lighting and camera angles can account for pretty much anything. Except this.

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