The Boot Kidz — Mannequins

The Boot Kidz The Boot Kidz is a collection of designer coat stands made with metal-bar and cement Wellington Boots. The Boot Kidz is a British innovative design combination of coat stands and wellies.  Hang jackets, coats, scarves, hats, belts, and other clothing accessories on the metal see-through mannequin frame.Use as valet stands, coat stands, mannequins for shop windows, or just for artistic display purposes. Who designed "The Boot Kidz"? Karen Henry designed The Boot Kidz whilst studying for her furniture design diploma at London Metropolitan University and as part of the requirements for completing her HND diploma in furniture design. Do you sell your...

  "The Boot Kidz" was designed by Karen Henry, who put pencil to paper in 2005 to create this unique functional art-piece.  These cute wire frame mannequins have appeared in Gap Kids window display as part of the London Design Festival and in Debenhams children's spring fashion show. Fun furniture and funky shapes and colours inspire Karen. Always looking for new sources of inspirations and jotting creative design ideas in her notepad. She created Boot Kidz, first to be functional, and the second to be design orientated. Below are 3D models and photographs of her manufactured models. Click on an image to see close-up...

Visual merchandising is a marketing practice in which the brand or image from one product or service is used to sell another.  Merchandising itself is selling products that are related to the core business. For example, selling baseball caps at a baseball game is merchandising. Visual merchandising are the ways in which merchandise is sold. Visual merchandising is creating attractive displays and careful placement of visual elements - which can be anything - photos, pictures, sofas, lighting, to increase sales of merchandise. It is a well known that the human eye is naturally attracted to colours and shapes.The famous Russian artist Kandinsky created abstract...

Author: Karen Henry, Chief Designer, Bootkidz Ltd London, UK Email: karen@bootkidz.co.uk Google+ Facebook Twitter   On the 1st June 2011, Bootkidz Ltd displayed "The Boot Kidz" in a fashion exhibition held at Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London.  The show was a display for Debenhams's children's clothing collection. The show featured Debenham's Autumn/Winter kids clothing selection. Here are a few photos and videos from the exhibition.  

Since the dawn of cinema scriptwriters and film directors have used mannequins in movies. See below for examples of films in which mannequins star in important roles. L'Artiste et le Mannequin (Georges Melies, 1900, 1min 09seconds) Ref: Youtube Mannequin Vivant (1903, 1min 30seconds) The original and first "Mannequin movie" was filmed in 1904 - in fact it was one of the first films ever made. It was called Mannequin Vivant - "Living Mannequin" in English and was French origin. It was distributed by the Pathé Frères (Pathé brothers) in France. The movie is about two men and a mannequin. The men are surprised that a mannequin can...