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Most Fashion Mannequins Are About a Size Two. The Met Gala Exhibit Is Making Room for Diverse Bodies

The museum is using 25 mannequins based on real bodies to challenge standard fashion display norms and add body-positive representations.

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On a sultry summer day in Brooklyn last year, artist and couture designer Michaela Stark found herself in a studio surrounded by 175 cameras, for a photo shoot unlike any she’d done before.

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Most fashion mannequins are about a size two. The Met Gala exhibit is making room for diverse bodies

On a sultry summer day in Brooklyn last year, artist and couture designer Michaela Stark found herself in a studio surrounded by 175 cameras, for a photo shoot unlike any she’d done before.

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Most fashion mannequins are about a size 2. The Met Gala exhibit is making room for diverse bodies

The upcoming fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art examines “the dressed body” in art over the centuries.

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