Rosalía arrived to the 2025 Met Gala carpet in a Balmain sculptural bodice that perfectly accentuated her curves—a look that was fully-inspired by a Stockman mannequin. “It was made to measure.

Tanda Francis working on the mannequin head for Superfine: Tailoring Black Style. Photo: Anna Marie Kellen. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Last week, the artist Tanda Francis walked ...

I wanted to start with the mannequin, that’s the base for every suit,” Olivier Rousteing, creative director at Balmain, said to Vogue about dressing Roslía. “Obviously, she’s iconic ...

And then there are the heads. Sculptor Tanda Francis’s bespoke mannequin heads anchor the looks with regal, haunting presence. One echoes the face of Congolese revolutionary André Grenard ...