A clothing vendor smiles as she waits amid her merchandise for customers at the Uyustos Market during Black Friday sales in La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, November 25, 2022. (Photo by Juan Karita/AP Photo)





Lorna MacGregor of Bonhams, Edinburgh, pictured on January 30, 2023 with an unusual life-size carved snd stained beech lay figure, or an artists mannequin, French, early 20 th century. Expected to sell for between £3400 and £5000. (Photo by Phil Wilkinson/The Times)





Patience Torlowei poses for photographs inside Milan's Fashion Hub, northern Italy during the 2023/2024 fall-winter collection fashion week, Tuesday, February 21, 2023. Torlowei is one of the designers promoted by the U.S.-based Blanc Magazine inclusion initiative called Blanc Spaces and giving underrepresented, incredibly talented designers a place to be seen and heard. (Photo by Claudio Furlan/Lapresse via AP Photo)





A lawmaker Lee Yong-ju, who brought a s*x doll, speaks during a parliamentary inspection at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, on October 18, 2019. South Korea has formally ended a ban on the import of full-body s*x dolls, ending years of debate over how much the government can interfere in private life. Although there are no laws or regulations banning the import of s*x dolls, hundreds and perhaps thousands have been seized by the customs, which cited a clause in the law that bans the import of goods that “harm the country’s beautiful traditions and public moral”. (Photo by Lee Jong-chul/Newsis via AP Photo)





A mannequin's head is covered in a woman dress shop in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, December 26, 2022. Under the Taliban, the mannequins in women's dress shops across the Afghan capital Kabul are a haunting sight, their heads cloaked in cloth sacks or wrapped in black plastic bags. The hooded mannequins are one symbol of the Taliban's puritanical rule over Afghanistan. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





Mannequins dressed with Chador are displayed at a shop in front of the Fatima Masumeh Shrine at the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, FFebruary 7, 2023. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





A driver takes part in a car demolition derby organised by the Cars and Motorcycles Sport Association (Malta) to raise funds for the Puttinu Cares children's cancer support group in Ta' Qali, Malta on July 30, 2022. (Photo by Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters)





A metalworker fixes a fence of a fashion shop in downtown San Salvador, El Salvador, late Friday, March 3, 2023. (Photo by Salvador Melendez/AP Photo)





A masquerader performs during the Caribbean Carnival parade in Toronto, Canada, Saturday, July 30, 2022. The 55th annual parade returned to the streets after the COVID-19 pandemic cancelled it for two years in a row. (Photo by Kamran Jebreili/AP Photo)





A patient from the Nise de Silveira mental health institute dances with a doll during the institute's carnival parade, called in Portuguese: “Loucura Suburbana”, or Suburban Madness, in the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, February 16, 2023. Patients, their relatives and workers from the institute held their parade before the start of Carnival which begins on Feb. 17. (Photo by Silvia Izquierdo/AP Photo)





A street vender offers candy on the sidelines of a protest demanding more money for social programs that support the unemployed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, August 17, 2022. (Photo by Natacha Pisarenko/AP Photo)





American actor Sylvester Stallone is seen on the film set of the “Tulsa King” TV Series in Brooklyn on May 18, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)





A photograph shows an effigy of a fisherman, displaying on a fishing boat a card which reads as “Death of the profession” during a strike of fishermen in Le Guilvinec, western France on March 29, 2023. Auctions and all port services will be closed as part of the two-day “Ports Morts” (Dead Harbours) national action to be followed by strikers for two days. (Photo by Fred Tanneau/AFP Photo)





Sumaya Zaman from Finglas and Rebecca Kirrane Simulation Technician with the Birthing mannequin simulation at the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences during the Undergraduate Open Day 2023 for second level students on January 4, 2023. (Photo by Alan Betson/The Irish Times)