Model Agyness Deyn Gets Mannequin, Testino Gig

Posted by mija on May 24, 2008 in News | 0 comments

Agyness Deyn, the model who is so cool she has two Ys in her ultra-cool name, now has a mannequin cast in her image. The honor was bestowed upon Deyn by Rootstein Mannequins, a company that’s been in the business of skinny synthetic people for nearly 50 years.
But don’t think the folks at Rootstein are late to the party. According to Deyn, the company’s creative director, Kevin Arpino, approached her back in 2003 about joining the ranks of Twiggy, Joan Collins, Pat Cleveland, and Erin O’Connor, who’ve all been sculpted themselves (it’s the fashion version of a wax figurine at Madame Tussauds!). The mannequin was unveiled last night at a tres hip party in Chelsea.
For his part, Arpino says he chose Deyn because she “embodies the look of the first decade of this century.” At the model’s request, Arpino has promised to send her mother a set of three mannequins of her very own. Unfortunately, Deyn missed the party in her honor because she was shooting with photographer Mario Testino on Long Island, laying to rest rumors that the shutterbug dumped her from the Burberry campaign because she was “overexposed.”