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Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping accepts a replica of a China Shipping Line vessel at the Port of Los Angeles.(Photo courtesy of the Port of Los Angeles)

Chinese Vice President Xin Jinping toured the Port of Los Angeles, held business meetings at the JW Marriott Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, toured Walt Disney Concert Hall and even attended part of a Lakers basketball game during his whirlwind tour to Southern California.

Who says port people aren't fashionable?

Just check out the mannequin the Port of Los Angeles designed for The Mannequin Collective, a competition organized by the soon-to-open Santa Monica Place shopping mall.

Geraldine Knatz, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles and the first woman to hold that position, received an e-mail inviting community leaders, retailers and fashion designers to decorate 100 blank mannequins to be displayed at the mall's opening on Aug. 6.