Word: mannequin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...balked at that," she recalls indignantly, "they suggested I work in a bank adding figures all day long." Capucine had other ideas. Instead of examining other people's figures, she thought other people ought to examine hers. The Nefertiti profile, the lean hungry look, quickly made her a mannequin for Givenchy and a top fashion model...
...grisly impact of a charnel house, yet on second glance present deeply shocking morality plays. Birthday, says the well-spoken former farmer, should express the hope offered by even the most forlorn birth. Giant plastic arrows express resurrection, even if with a tainted blatancy; the plastic bubble above the mannequin mother's mouth, actually a dimestore baby's plastic bubble, symbolizes a scream. It is theater, embalmed in translucent epoxy and cluttered with props-a ghostly coat rack, old sandals, an overnight case. But it deals with harsh reality. Says Kienholz, "We need to say these things...
...that he loved his wife Lucille (Laura Esterman). Though he certainly looked the most effete man in Paris, Edward Needle (Saint-Just) relied entirely on an energetic delivery of his lines to make himself frightening. He wasn't. The only thing distinguishing David Blocker (Phillipeau) from a mannequin was his pasted-on look of righteousness...
...chef-d'oeuvre was his wife Annabel, 36, a former mannequin whose Balenciaga he had selected, and whose black hair he had cut in the style of a Spanish toreador...
...then, Hélène Lazareff is likely to have demonstrated some new enthusiasm. France's host of other fashion magazines, some 50 in all, can only emulate. They can scarcely compete with an influence so pervasive it can turn a shepherdess into a mannequin...