\u201cI had like a cheering section. There were people applauding. It was great,\u201d Komm told The Post of the labor of love she dubbed \u201cSnowmannequin,\u201d which racked up close to 8 million views on Instagram and TikTok.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople were really grateful that I had made this piece of art that brought joy to the city.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Dress designer Colette Komm\u00a0carved this \u201cSnowmannequin\u201d in Central Park. Colette Komm<\/p>\n
Komm, who grew up in Vancouver, explained that before she could even start working, she has to amass a massive pile of snow with her bare hands.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you build a snowman the day after it snows, it\u2019s really easy to roll a giant ball. But after the snow has gone through a freeze-thaw cycle, you cannot roll a ball of snow,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I literally had to just pick up chunks with my hand, put it in a pile, and as the pile got bigger, I literally had to hug the pile to compress all the snow together.\u201d<\/p>\n
The next morning she went back to her masterpiece \u2014 which stands at the south side of Terrace Drive, just west of Bethesda Fountain, through the West 72nd St. entrance \u2014 to painstakingly carve out the hem of the dress.<\/p>\n
When she arrived, she realized someone had messed with her frozen creation of a dress form, which doesn\u2019t have a head or arms, but just a neck.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone had put a giant snowball on the neck, to look like a really weird-shaped head,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u2018So I took it off because this is a dress form, it doesn\u2019t have a head.’\u201d<\/p>\n
By that time, Snowmannequin had already become a viral sensation, so she had at least 50 people come by to witness it for themselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne woman came up to me and she\u2019s like, \u2018Oh my gosh, I\u2019ve been wandering around in the park since 96th Street trying to find this,’\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was one group of people that converged, and each one of them had seen it on a different [social media] platform.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also set up her phone\u2019s camera to film, and 750 people watched her carving the hem on her TikTok Live stream.<\/p>\n
At one point, a cop car pulled up and a police officer walked over. Komm, who used a 12-inch and a 9-inch knife for the project, thought she may be getting in trouble.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018Oh no, it\u2019s a cop and I\u2019m sitting here with these giant knives,’\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut he was like, \u2018I just have to see this.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is snow impressive! A Manhattan wedding dress designer went viral this week for sculpting an uncannily realistic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4709,68,17479,3956,232,9,197,56,63,65,64,8555,40748,9740,62,1688],"class_list":{"0":"post-148432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-central-park","9":"tag-exclusive","10":"tag-fashion-designers","11":"tag-instagram","12":"tag-lifestyle","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city-life","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-headlines","18":"tag-nyc-news","19":"tag-snow","20":"tag-snowmen","21":"tag-tiktok","22":"tag-upper-west-side","23":"tag-viral-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}