FEMM has dispatched agents all over the globe to find and identify mannequins that meet a "certain criteria" and animate them using a gadget of undisclosed origin.
They are mannequins, and that implies a certain toughness".
She signed up Talitha Getty, the socialite wife of John Paul Getty Jr., and Marianne Faithfull, the English pop star and Mick Jagger's girlfriend, who were not professional mannequins but who brought a certain decadent jet-set cultural cachet.
You're getting dressed because there's an obligation from your side to a certain designer... I'm just sort of the mannequin that they send out".
The female colossus has contemporary precedents, among them Charles Ray's towering fashion mannequins, which add up to a joke about the intimidating nature of a certain kind of female glamour.
A certain pattern emerged.
Mannequins and humor are used to comment on mid-20th century societal expectations still present for women of a "certain age" to marry and have children.
