Body Doubles: The Origins of the Fashion Mannequin
This article traces the origins of the mannequin and challenges the gender assumptions it has been cloaked in. In nineteenth-century Paris, the fashion mannequin became a key technology in the construction of normative bodies, a principal “actor” in shaping current clothing cultures, and literally e...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre for Fashion Diversity and Social Change, Ryerson University
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Fashion Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://www.fashionstudies.ca/body-doubles |