The Dollywood Times

Comic Potential

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:50:12 +0000

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

Dancing on Ice Friday

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:51:17 +0000

Does this mannequin look like Brad Pitt?

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:07:32 +0000

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

Mannakin Girls On Tour With Niki Evans

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:23:09 +0000

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.

Star City

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:05:14 +0000

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.

Vintage Mannequins

admin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:50:32 +0000

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

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:28:43 +0000

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”.

Newark Business Awards

admin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:10:21 +0000

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.

Static Fashion Shows

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:12:50 +0000

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.

Using Bald Mannequins

admin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:29:30 +0000

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.

Our New New York Connection

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:22:24 +0000

This week I have been delighted to meet, face to face, with my double act from the United States. Judi Townsend, owner of Mannequin Madness won a competition to fly to London with British Airways. We are both very grateful for the competition otherwise perhaps we would never have got round to meeting in person. Judi and I share the same passion for mannequins and recycling but also a unique connection in terms of how we want to move our businesses forward. So without further ado, we can now announce that we are going to become strategic partners and work together, serving mannequins out to customers on both side of the pond. Here we both are, pictured holding our identical sitting mannequin oscars which are to symbolise our unique connection with mannequins and outstanding customer service.

Louise Amstrup at London Fashion Week

admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:56:15 +0000

We were delighted to support upcoming designer, Louise Amstrup during her presentation at the Freemasons Hall for London Fashion Week. She used our PUCCI mannequins to highlight her collection.

We are always pleased to work alongside set designers to create the right look so if this is your game, please get in touch for a chat. We are very flexible on financial negotiations and relish working with you long term.

Upcoming designers should contact Vauxhall Fashion Scout for information on the support they provide.

Model Business On The Move

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:54:27 +0000

MIKA TV Special

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:59:34 +0000

Being asked to provide mannequins for music video shoots is one of our specialities and we are really proud to add the fabulous MIKA to our growing list of celebrity clients. Roz had a wonderful hard working day at Wilton’s Music Hall in E1 – the most beautiful music hall you have ever seen. Well worth a visit. www.wiltons.org.uk. The mannequins behaved themselves too, which was a bonus although one did refuse to have his trousers put on. We do believe that some of the crew have photographic evidence of Roz struggling on the cat walk with him. Let us know so we can have a caption competition!

All of us here at Mannakin wish MIKA every success in the world with the new album. Roz’s favourite track? I see you!

The shoot was featured twice on Channel 4’s T4 on Saturday 29 August 2009. It is available for 30 days on 4 on Demand. Click here to view on the web.

Lady Gaga at Shangri La

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:56:38 +0000

Undoubtedly the most talented artist at this years Glastonbury Festival was Lady Gaga. How honoured we were to see her appear live on stage with our mannequins.

We are back after a successful trip with the mannequins to Glastonbury Festival. Not only did they stand on stage for the duration, they also appeared with Lady Gaga – when she did her secret gig at Club Dada, Shangri La. We were delighted as she announced how much she enjoyed performing with the mannequins. Kelvin Clone even had his privates fondled by her! (He is now charging double his usual hire fee!) Some pre photos here, with more to follow shortly.

Catherine Malandrino at Harrods

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:28:23 +0000

New York based fashion designer of note, Catherine Malandrino – recently opened a boutique within the famous London store Harrods. She chose our mannequins for the opening whose guests included Liz Hurley! We were absolutely delighted with this project and thank Catherine for using our mannequins for such a special event.

Louis Vuitton Press Day

admin — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:46:43 +0000

We recently supplied black gloss female mannequins for Louis Vuitton Press Day.

Matthew Williamson

admin — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:34:30 +0000

We supplied the silver mannequins in this video. These are part of our Ralph Pucci ‘Manikin’ Collection.

Fake by Alex Roots

admin — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:26:12 +0000

Fake by Alex Roots from Ben Goodger on Vimeo.

Patina-V Female Torso’s

admin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:03:38 +0000

If you have been reading our blog regularly, then recently you would have seen the inside of the Patina-V factory in New York. Patina-V is often seen as a pioneer in mannequin design – turning out quality models. We have old ones and new ones in our collection, but these stunning display torso’s or busts with their hands in meditation pose are beautiful. Their moulds seem to go one step further in the production process, making them true works of art all by themselves. We have a collection of approximately 20 of these models available to hire. Please contact us for more info.

Designed by Ralph Pucci

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:04:17 +0000

We have just acquired a fantastic collection of mannequins, created by designer Ralph Pucci. We are really please to have this collection, known as ‘MANIKIN’. The finish is called ‘foundry’ and they look like they are carved from stone. More pictures as we upload them can be found here.

Nicko The Scariest Mannakin

admin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:30:00 +0000

We were rather hoping that by putting scary face Nicko outside our house on Friday night (Halloween) that we would have a night of peace from trick or treaters, but in fact, they loved him and we had more visitors than usual!

Absolut Masquerade

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:44:20 +0000

Hellen Back at the Absolut Masquerade promotional event at Maverik Showrooms, London E2 – October 2008. Mannequin styled by Sophia Hedblom. Read more on the event here.

Mannequins For George

admin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:15:52 +0000

We were recently asked to supply mannequins for George, the clothing arm of ASDA supermarkets. Our brief was to supply family groups in white. Here are some photo’s of the mannequins – proof that we can supply top quality mannequins for any occasion. Please get in touch if you feel our creative flow can help you.

Only Fools & Horses

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:49:38 +0000

2 of our most famous male mannequins recently took part in the Only Fools and Horses Convention in Maidstone organised by OnlyFools.Net. The mannequins were dressed up in those famous Batman and Robin costumes that Del Boy (Sir David Jason) and Rodney Trotter (Nicholas Lindhurst) wore in one of the episodes of Britains most popular sitcom, Only Fools and Horses. Can you guess which mannequins were used?! Thanks to Perry for hiring out the mannequins and sending these pictures to us!

And do you recognise this guy? He was on the X Factor doing the dodgy MJ impression – David.