Batman Goes Vogue
Do you remember a long, long time ago when I told all of you fine folks about an article on Superhero clothing by Michael Chabon? Were you struck with the inevitable desire to be able to walk through hallways of comic book threads in an upscale an intellectual environment?
You're damn right, you were!
Well, now you can finally get the monkey off your back because New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting a new exhibit called Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy. The venerated museum will be taking a look at the link between comic books and fashion and go the extra step to examine how a superhero's dress is representative of modern fashion and the physical ideal.
It seems like it will be a fascinating project and it's something the Met does very well. They had an exhibit a few years ago called "Men in Dresses" that discussed every form of a man wearing a dress that has existed throughout history. Odd topic, but engrossing presentation. If the superhero version is half as good we're in for a fun afternoon.
The exhibit will run from May 7th to September 1st of this year and the museum is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue in New York.
Make the threadbare jump for the official word from the Met.
Thierry Mugler, fall/winter 1996-1997. Photograph © Patrice Stable Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy May 7, 2008-September 1, 2008 Special Exhibition Galleries, 1st floor This exhibition will explore the symbolic and metaphorical associations between fashion and the superhero. Featuring movie costumes, avant-garde haute couture, and high-performance sportswear, it will reveal how the superhero serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion and its ability to empower and transform the human body. Objects will be organized thematically around particular superheroes, whose movie costumes and superpowers will be catalysts for the discussion of key concepts of superheroism and their expression in fashion.The exhibition and its accompanying book are made possible by Giorgio Armani.
Additional support is provided by Condé Nast.
Goblin
Posted to Superheroes on 23 April 2008
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I hope its good, sometimes museums just do a fashion/something exhibit just to get people in their doors tho. last year there was a fashion + architecture exhibition at the MOCA in LA (Skin+Bones), and although the pieces were awesome, the curator wasn't really clear enough on how the two disciplines connect