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26 Mar

Digital Art Is Making Moves on the Mannequin Market

Digital Art Is Making Moves on the Mannequin Market
GETTING A MOVE ON: Will digital artist Sam Shea — prized for his disquieting, liquid-like figures sometimes comprised only of limbs — disrupt the, ahem, staid mannequin market? “I’m principally going to start out manufacturing all my 3D work in real life,” he said at an event Tuesday during Paris Blockchain Week, where he displayed a video clip of one in all his human-like creatures, its flesh stretching out within the wind, riding a horse across a beach. “The cool thing is my dad worked his entire life at a natural history museum, and his best friend made the mannequins.” Shea, higher often known as Nude Robot, said his “surreal mannequins, like lucid dreamers” would offer a latest way for fashion brands...
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26 Mar

Hudson’s Bay Company Officially Goes Fur-free

Hudson’s Bay Company Officially Goes Fur-free
Hudson’s Bay, a retailer with deep roots in fur, has stopped selling animal fur products. The Toronto-based Hudson’s Bay Company’s entire portfolio is now fur-free. Saks Fifth Avenue and Saks Off 5th committed to accomplish that in 2021. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals touted the news Thursday, claiming that emails from 100,000 PETA supporters to Hudson’s Bay businesses and anti-fur protests outside of stores helped make the change. In October 2020, there have been demonstrations outside of nine Hudson’s Bay and Saks Fifth Avenue stores. Executives at Hudson’s Bay were unavailable to comment Thursday concerning the company’s fur-free decision, in accordance with an organization spokeswoman. The one statement that might be made was issued by the retailer, “Hudson’s Bay doesn't sell...
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