When the automaton is activated, the cartoon couturier appears to dance, scissors in hand, next to her dressmaking dummy. It is a reminder, Mr. Chastaingt wrote, that “Mademoiselle Chanel ...

According to LIFE magazine, the party featured “a dressmaker’s dummy, a Nazi uniform, nails, axes, tom-toms and plenty of Jamaica rum,” and was inspired by a book by occultist and writer ...

Renee Slater, 64, had gone on trial after putting forward dressmaker’s dummy Helena Torry as a candidate. As Helena’s election agent, Slater put her name on the nomination papers and hand ...

For much of my childhood, a corner of our lounge room was occupied by a headless dressmaker's dummy in the costume of a late 19th-century matriarch: a deep olive green taffeta skirt with a bustle ...