Baptiste Giabiconi | Showroom Dummies

gen-ITALIA | With the help of Karl Lagerfeld and surely several hours of post-editing, Baptiste Giabiconi, is transformed into a living mannequin (or man-i-KEN) as we prefer) replete with amorphous genitalia. The spread for the October 2009 issue of Elle Italia explores the Surrealist Movement in art.  Mannequins have long fascinated artists, like this photograph (above) of mannequins in Marcel Duchamp’s 1938 Surrealist Exhibition at Beaux-arts Gallery in Paris — many of these mannequins would later inspire works by Man Ray (pictured below).

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