Architectural Digest’s editor-in-chief Margaret Russell jumped out from behind the page yesterday as the model for the last of a series of live sculpting events at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in New York, to accompany the exhibition Ralph Pucci: the Art of the Mannequin. The sculptor Michael Evert, Pucci’s longtime collaborator in the creation of his inventive mannequins, has so far crafted busts of models like the fashion designers Anna Sui and Mary McFadden and MAD’s former chief curator, Lowery Stokes Sims. The show, which highlights the collaboration between Pucci and Evert with around 30 mannequins and a recreation of Evert’s studio, will run through 25 October.
