'Disabled' Mannequins Remind Us That Beautiful Doesn't Mean 'Perfect'
The Huffington Post | By Ellie Krupnick & Rebecca Adams
It's no secret that the smooth, plastic bodies staring out of store windows aren't true physical replicas of the people who stare back at them. But there's no reason they can't be.
Pro Infirmis, an organization for the disabled, created a series of mannequins based on real people with physical disabilities, working with individuals like Jasmine Rechsteiner, a Miss Handicap winner who has spine malformations, and Erwin Aljukić, an actor with brittle bone disease. The project's title? "Because Who Is Perfect? Get Closer."
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(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/03/disabled-mannequins-video_n_4379586.html)
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