This is a continuation of our blog series about our love of Rootstein mannequins. P.S. If you also love Rootstein mannequins, we created this Pinterest board with over 200 images from vintage to current models. This blog post is devoted to the mannequins of color…
vi. Rewind to the early 1950’s, when a young Adel Rootstein immigrated to London from South Africa (born in Warmbaths, 1930) to discover the city’s fashion scene in the midst of a glamorous post-WWII revival – a creative wave that would later make way for the…
Vintage Rootstein mannequins are highly sought after by small but rabid group of collectors. We have created this board on Pinterest devoted to Rootstein mannequins, many of which are ones that we have had in our warehouse and sold to these collectors. Whenever we acquire…
Cynthia’s face remained completely blank, wearing that same empty stare at the theater, Bergdorf’s, a private dinner party, and even her regular hair salon. Everywhere she went, Cynthia tantalized the paparazzi and her adoring public—always seen on the arm of the fashionable Lester Gaba, wearing the runway’s latest…