The Dollywood Times

Starring as yet the no name robot mannequin – more news to follow

OK, so a young Brad Pitt – but do you think he looks like him? Actually we don’t think he is as good looking as Brad, but he could pass as a substitute. Why not hire him and sit him down to dinner with yourself? Set your camera on the self timing mode and post it on Facebook – tell the world how you had dinner with Brad. Well, OK, we are getting a bit silly now but it is Friday and it is almost time to go home. Let us know what you think! Nice weekend. x

One of the most successful artists to emerge from The X Factor, Niki has taken the West End by storm winning awards as Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers, and been personally invited to join the tours of our friend John Barrowman and Jasper Carrott.  This will be Niki’s first UK tour as she presents the songs she loves and wants to share. Recognised as one of the best voices to have featured on The X Factor throughout its history, Niki is a true live performer not to be missed.

Niki’s opening show at the Garrick Theatre is pictured here with 4 of our Selfridges 8 as backing singers, wearing dresses that appeared on the X Factor.

If you are in Nottingham anytime up to 17 April 2010 – then a visit to the Star City at Nottingham Contemporary will be an absolute delight. It includes a giant fallen spaceman, an electrical water feature and a 4 screen video installation featuring an astronaughts training environment for life in space. It is amazing. Our Silver Pucci’s are in residence during this exhibition and naturally look very comfortable in the surroundings.

The popular and ironic phrase ‘Vintage’ is a modern elegant-seeming euphemism for “old”. We use the term quite liberally when describing old mannequins that we have in our collection.

A recent addition to that category includes these two beautiful lounging female mannequins which are now available for hire only. We like to think that they will be used by event planners of a variety of descriptions including weddings and birthday parties.

These mannequins are now available to hire from £40 each plus shipping and VAT. We hope you agree that they are a truly artistic addition to our mannequin collection.

We apologise for the photo quality on these.

My Favourite Outfit was an exhibition at the Grosvenor Museum Chester. It showcased from 26 September to 22 November 2009.

The exhibition showcased the favourite outfits of members of the public and explored the stories behind their clothes. ‘My Favourite Outfit’ incorporated clothes from the 1940’s to the present day and included country and western fashion, 70’s maxi dresses and wedding outfits, among others.

“The faceless white mannequins we chose were perfect as they were bland enough to suit a range of styles and ages of clothes, yet human-looking enough to give atmosphere to the room and created the feel of models on a catwalk”.

We have been listed as a finalist in the Newark Business Awards for Successful New Business. We are of course very honoured to have reached this stage in the process and have all our fingers and toes crossed to win, including all the mannequins fingers and toes, or at least the flexible ones .

We did enter last year, but didn’t get a look in, so we must have really impressed the judges so far and indeed we have come a long way from a year ago. We are up against the Vertical Pole Fitness Company and Wilson Energy, so whomever of us wins, we are sure it is a massive achievement!

This year the organisers have compiled short video interviews and we had great fun doing ours.

The grand finale is on November 25th and the guest speaker at the event is Sir Alans right hand man, Nick Hewer, so we are really looking forward to the event.

We will post more news here as soon as we have it.

In this video we see a fashion show on a mannequin. We obviously think this is a great idea! At a presentation for Harriets Muse at Vauxhall Fashion Scouts week at Freemasons Hall, we did exactly the same thing, but in this video they refer to it as a fashion show, not a presentation. We think this is a much better arrangement and therefore would like to hear from designers who would like to present their collections like this. Please get in touch with Roz Mita.

On the theme of remaking and recycling featured in this video below – we have a huge collection of older mannequins that are just crying out to be transformed into your creations. So do get in touch and let us know if you are interested.

On|Off TV DAY FOUR from LowFatFilms on Vimeo.

Melbourne 2009, originally uploaded by dw*c.

We say that headless and faceless mannequins are the modern mannequins of the future, but consider using a realistic mannequin in your windows with no wig.

This picture (taken in Melbourne) of bald realistic mannequins, shows that as long as the model has great make up and a good pose and positioned within the right environment – it can also hold true the boldness of modern.