Bonaveri Magazine

The original Schläppi mannequins were conceived and
created thanks to the intuition of two visionary men:
Mr. Schläppi and sculptor, Lorenzo Piemonti. Starting
in the mid-1950s, the collaboration between these two
men, a dynamic entrepreneur and a visionary artist,
resulted in the creation of remarkable and evocative
forms that have endured for over twenty years.
Piemonti imagined silhouettes with distinctive and
peculiar stylized strokes, so far from the usual
anthropomorphic figures adorned with make-up, wigs
and soft and curvy shapes. He elongated and applied
abstraction to the bodies and, in doing so, created
iconic forms that simply alluded to human figures.
The artist invented the future of the mannequin: he
was the first to foresee an aesthetic that, some thirty
years later, has become the trend of our contemporary
sensibility.
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