For the month of May (Asian heritage month) I am going to feature my series on the Asian mannequins that Rootstein produced.
This is Ariane Koizumi. She is Eurasian (half Dutch, half Japanese) . When she wears her hair short she has aslightly androgynous appearance.
One time when we recycled the mannequins at a Saks store that was closing the ONLY mannequins they had were Ariane and they are all painted the glossy black you see in the photo below.
She has strong similarities to another Eurasian model, Tina Chow, that Rootstein also made as a mannequin.
Ariane was a custom sculpture for Saks Fifth Avenue. They had her as an abstract, versus realistic version below.
While some mannequins collectors have had her transformed into a realistic face like the photo above , I don’t think Rootstein every released a realistic version of Ariane. To the best of my knowledge there isn’t even a Rootstein catalogue with her image, because she was for Saks only.
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