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December 12, 2008 2:25 pm
“I guess it’s like an Academy Award for models, but a life-size one,” said Coco Rocha last night at the Rootstein Gallery, standing beside a mannequin made in her exact likeness, complete with her newly unveiled red hair. The Canadian catwalk queen is the latest fashion figure to be immortalized by the iconic mannequin maker. Despite the honor, Rocha admitted to finding all the still-life figures of herself and others on display somewhat creepy. “When I was getting all the pictures done, I turned to this photographer, thinking, ‘Why is he not taking a picture?’ ” said Rocha. “It’s because he wasn’t real.” In one room, a lifeless, yet also somehow lifelike, Agyness Deyn (last year’s pick) stood in expressive silence while guests gawked. Added Rocha with a playful hair toss, “Someone said to me, ‘We might not be able to book you, but we’ll be able to book that.’ ” (That may not be a bad alternative when you can’t book the girl you want.) Meanwhile, over at the Pucci Mannequin Showroom, another figurine-centric event was getting under way. The standing attraction here was Pucci’s new figure, named simply Girl. In lieu of its usual mannequin show, the company presented an exhibition and performance by modern dance ensemble the Buglisi Dance Theatre with the mannequins as backdrop, draped in fashions by It girl-approved designer Frank Tell. If he found models that don’t talk or complain about ill-fitting shoes preferable to those that breathe and smile, he wasn’t saying.
tags: Agyness Deyn, Coco Rocha, Frank Tell, Pucci, Rootstein
love the pant and the girl in the back hair so much…it’s pretty
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