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Little Italy

Women's History Museum transforms vintage lingerie mannequins into disturbing sculptures bound in latex, porcupine quills, and poison labels. This exhibition uses fetish imagery to explore fashion's dehumanization of women and the masochism of design.

Provocative fashion art
Vintage fetish aesthetics
Feminist critique
Mannequin sculptures

Tips

👗mannequins from 1930s-50s have built-in heeled feet
🦔materials include French calico, latex, and quills
⚠️confronts bondage imagery and capitalism head-on

Company Gallery

145 Elizabeth St, New York, NY 10012, USA

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