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Manifesting Mannequins

  Categorically mannequins are articulated dolls used by tailors, window dressers, artists to display their clothing. An artist’s jointed model carries the ‘word history’ from France to the flemish ‘manekken’. In the visual merchandising  and fashion industry, they play a very major role. The mannequins ‘were’ and ‘now’ are extensively used for shop display purposes. In this blog, we’ll figure out different time assortments from history, to the present, and to the future. As the mannequins carry a rich history, it will be more interesting to map out their roots to the present day. In the past hundred years, figures are changing to reflect advents of window shopping, subversive androgyny, liberation for women, wartime rationing, fetishism in barbies, fiberglass, and Twiggy. Shapes rotate from poles to lunettes and backgrounds. To date, models reflect changing stances on the female form, patterns of consumer behavior, material and technological developments, which are sym...