Miss Virginia Lachasse

Miss Lachasse was styled as a mannequin in miniature, based on the leading model at the House of Lachasse in London, Miss Virginia Woodford. The 19-year-old Miss Woodford was much photographed at the time and would have been widely recognized through the pages of fashion journals. The original idea for the figurine was to raise money for the Greater London Fund for the Blind and to enhance the prestige of the Lachasse couture house in Mayfair. The doll is made of plaster and wood, and has a painted wax head. She was sculpted by Dunton in the mid-1950s using a plaster cast especially created in the likeness of Miss Woodford. See more here…