page_title: Mannequin
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Mannequin / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: English: Mall cultural in Jakarta, Indonesia.
context_page_description: A mannequin is an often articulated doll used by artists, tailors, dressmakers, windowdressers and others especially to display or fit clothing. The term is also used for life-sized dolls with simulated airways used in the teaching of first aid, CPR, and advanced airway management skills such as tracheal intubation and for human figures used in computer simulation to model the behavior of the human body. During the 1950s, mannequins were used in nuclear tests to help show the effects of nuclear weapons on humans.
  Mannequin comes from the French word mannequin, which had acquired the meaning "an artist's jointed model", which in turn came from the Flemish word manneken, meaning "little man, figurine". In early use in the United Kingdom, it referred to fashion models themselves, the meaning as a dummy dating from the start of World War II.
context_section_description: Mannequins were a frequent motif in the works many early 20th-century artists, notably the Metaphysical painters  Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Savinio and Carlo Carrà.
  Shop windows displaying mannequins were a frequent photographic subject for Eugene Atget.
  Mannequins are a common theme in horror and science fiction. Mannequins can be disturbing (perhaps due in part to the uncanny valley effect), especially when not fully assembled. The Twilight Zone episode "The After Hours" (1960) involves mannequins taking turns living in the real world as people. In the Doctor Who serial Spearhead from Space (1970), an alien intelligence attempts to take over Earth with killer plastic mannequins called Autons. Mannequins come to life and attack the living in "The Trevi Collection" (episode 14 of the television series Kolchak: The Night Stalker). Abandoned nuclear test sites consisting of entire towns populated by mannequins appear in such films as Kalifornia (1993), Mulholland Falls (1996), and the remake of The Hills Have Eyes (2006).
  The romantic comedy film Mannequin (1987) is a story of a window dresser (played by Andrew McCarthy) who falls in love with a mannequin that comes to life (played by Kim Cattrall).
  The cast of the satirical Japanese television series The Fuccons/Oh! Mikey consists entirely of inanimate mannequins with voices dubbed in.
  Four mannequins can be seen on the cover of the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles. All were wax dummies modeled after the members of the band.
  The music video for the hit single "The Sun Always Shines on T.V." by a-ha features the band performing in a church full of mannequins.
  Commercials for the clothing store Old Navy sometimes use inanimate mannequins with voices dubbed in.
  Al Snow had/has a sidekick/tag-team partner/opponent named "Head" that was a long haired female mannequin head. In addition to being a one-time WWE Hardcore Champion, Head was often used as a weapon or spoken to as a moral compass.
  A pop duo with multiple electronic-style songs consisting of robotic mannequins, known as Far East Mention Mannequins.
caption: Mannequins in a clothing shop in Indonesia
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