A mannequin that sweats, moves and has a human body temperature could help clothes designers create better military clothing, sportswear and even spacesuits, its creators say. Monitoring how well a ...

The invention of the modern mannequin can be credited to the French in the 1870s at the start of the Industrial Revolution as a way to attract women into stores. It helped them envision the clothes as ...

Mannequins of all shape, size, age and gender inundate clothing stores, whether in malls or in old city bazaars across the country. Recently, a designer friend of mine went shopping for mannequins ...

Alexandra Waldman used to hate shopping. As a plus-size woman, not only did she have to go to some far-hidden corner of the department stores on Fifth Avenue to find clothes that fit her — far away ...

RENAZZO DI CENTO, Italy — To the untrained eye, the clusters of synthetic body parts scattered on the floor of a vast warehouse in Italy’s heartland looked very much like clusters of synthetic body ...