Superhero Fashion
Mark your calendars, New Yorkers, and do something that will make your parents think you're smart! The Metropolitan Museum of Art will soon be opening an exhibit on Superhero Fashion!
(I assume it will be more interesting than this photo)
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 superhero serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion"? Finally, I can dust off my cape-based evening wear!
