Candidates Go 2-D in ‘Politics of Fashion’ Photo Spread

ABC News’ Nitya Venkataraman Reports: They say the camera adds ten pounds. Or in the case of some of 2008′s presidential glitterati in a Harper’s Bazaar February spread…model Nadja Auermann.

(Images from the magazine’s ‘Politics of Fashion’ Spread can be found HERE and HERE).

And though some might think Sen. John McCain would travel any distance to stand that close to a $10,000 Fendi ensemble, if you’re wondering how the candidates managed to fit in a glossy photo shoot with photographer Peter Lindberg between the caucusing, canvassing and general glad-handing of the primary season: they didn’t.

So, it’s not that your favorite ’08 politico was looking a little more two-dimensional than usual, rather that Auermann posed with (remarkably life-like) life-size cutouts of the candidates purchased from a photo agency.

The magazine won’t say the spread is a fake, and pointed Women’s Wear Daily to a teaser under the story headline that, they think, says it all: "They’re smart and savvy and have made for TV smiles, but can you believe everything you see?"