Fashion shares with the 'Superhero' at Costume Institute

24 Oct '07

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The exhibition, in the Museum's first-floor special exhibition galleries, will include movie costumes as well as radical fashions that literally and figuratively reference superhero iconography, including Bernhard Willhelm's 2006 royal blue dress emblazoned with a red-and-yellow “S” emblem, a 1996 Walter van Beirendonck pink vinyl inflatable jacket, and a John Galliano for Christian Dior Haute Couture corset and bikini bottom from his 2001 “Wonder Woman” collection.

A Thierry Mugler motorcycle bustier with polychrome handlebars and side-view mirrors evokes Ghost Rider in its comic-strip exaggeration, while a Hussein Chalayan Airplane dress with battery-operated moveable flaps shares the Flash's streamlined aerodynamics. Also included is an array of second-skin body suits for extreme sports, as well as luminous, glow-in-the-dark clothing.

Other designers in the exhibition include Giorgio Armani, Balenciaga, Pierre Cardin, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Rudi Gernreich, Givenchy, Eiko Ishioka, House of Harlot, Michiko Koshino, Martin Margiela, Alexander McQueen, Issey Miyake, Moschino, Nike, Gareth Pugh, Paco Rabanne, Jeremy Scott, Speedo, and Three As Four.

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