Under the Taliban, the mannequins in women’s dress shops across the Afghan capital of Kabul are a haunting sight, their heads cloaked in cloth sacks or wrapped in black plastic bags. The hooded ...

Bezva — an independent womenswear brand established in 2006 in Ukraine by Svitlana Bevza — hosted an exhibition at the Ukrainian Institute of America.

As pedestrians pass the corner of East 10th Street and Broadway, they might assume a new, eclectic clothing store has opened.

Women’s evening dresses - bought to be worn only in private, at gender-segregated weddings or engagement parties - are displayed with mannequins’ heads wrapped in plastic, foil or black bags.

In the experiment, researchers placed two mannequin heads near one another facing each other. One was labeled as a COVID-19 patient and was set up to emit a mist through its mouth, mimicking a ...