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Fashion shares with the 'Superhero' at Costume Institute
24 Oct '07
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As superheroes enjoy a surge in mass popularity not seen since the golden age of comic books in the 1940s, The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art will explore the symbolic and metaphorical associations between these fictional characters and fashion in Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy, an exhibition at the Museum from May 7 through September 1, 2008.
The exhibition will feature approximately 70 ensembles including movie costumes, avant-garde haute couture, and high-performance sportswear to reveal how the superhero serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion and its ability to empower and transform the human body.
The exhibition is made possible by Giorgio Armani. Additional support is provided by Condé Nast. “Today, superhero imagery has suffused almost every aspect of popular culture,” said Andrew Bolton, Curator in the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute.
“The superhero's iconic costume of cape, mask, and bodysuit finds many fashionable permutations. But fashion's embrace of the superhero extends beyond iconography, to issues of identity, sexuality, and nationalism. Fashion shares with the superhero an inherent metaphorical malleability which fuels its fascination with the idea and the ideal of the superhero.”
To celebrate the opening of the exhibition, the Museum's Costume Institute Gala Benefit will take place on Monday, May 5, 2008. Giorgio Armani will serve as Honorary Chair of the Gala. Co-Chairs will be actor George Clooney; actress Julia Roberts; and Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue.
The exhibition will feature approximately 70 ensembles including movie costumes, avant-garde haute couture, and high-performance sportswear to reveal how the superhero serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion and its ability to empower and transform the human body.
The exhibition is made possible by Giorgio Armani. Additional support is provided by Condé Nast. “Today, superhero imagery has suffused almost every aspect of popular culture,” said Andrew Bolton, Curator in the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute.
“The superhero's iconic costume of cape, mask, and bodysuit finds many fashionable permutations. But fashion's embrace of the superhero extends beyond iconography, to issues of identity, sexuality, and nationalism. Fashion shares with the superhero an inherent metaphorical malleability which fuels its fascination with the idea and the ideal of the superhero.”
To celebrate the opening of the exhibition, the Museum's Costume Institute Gala Benefit will take place on Monday, May 5, 2008. Giorgio Armani will serve as Honorary Chair of the Gala. Co-Chairs will be actor George Clooney; actress Julia Roberts; and Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue.
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