Manikins are elaborate clothes hangers, advertisements, design to sell clothing.
To do this successfully, they must appeal to the individual's perception of beauty,
as well as their shared cultural perception.
When barren undressed, they reflect our culture's overlying perception of physical beauty.
When dressed in a storefront window, they appeal to the individual.
Selling a product is not their only function, whether intended or not.
Through the clothes they sell, the lifestyle they embody, and the body image they project,
Manikins define an ideal sculpted by each brand and the people participating in that
ideal.
That is beauty.
Manikins are elaborate clothes hangers, advertisements, design to sell clothing.
Selling a product is not their only function, whether intended or not.
Selling a product is not their only function, whether intended or not.
Selling a product is not their only function, whether intended or not.
Selling a product is not their only function, whether intended or not.
Selling a product is not their only function, whether intended or not.
Manikin is initially constructed of solid clay upon a wire skeleton.
In this form it can be considered a work of art no different than the marble sculpted
by the Greeks, the Romans, the French, and the Italians.
The Manikin is then perfected, polished, and cast to create its inverse, the mold, from
which the Manikin will be born while the original is thrown away, once a work of art transformed
into garbage.
The Manikin is then replicated into the thousands.
Each copy is a shell of the original, hollow and empty, made of plastic and fiberglass.
However the perfected copies are still not perfect.
Each one contains impurities and imperfections that must be scraped off, sanded down, and
covered up to create a smooth seamless exterior, which ultimately becomes the conception of
natural beauty.
Is beauty being mass produced?
Are we becoming shells of ourselves?
Are we culturally hollow?
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