Dress for Success: Superhero-style

By Ken Hoyt

The always fascinating Metropolitan Museum of Art has never been at a loss for exhibitions to draw in the normally art averse. Who needs to study brush strokes when there are actual temples from antiquity and entire rooms from stately homes?

The Costume Institute (originally curated by the fabulous Diana Vreeland) has stepped out of it's usual role of historic investigation with Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy * show set to run through this summer.

It is much more than a sampling of all things spandex. The show details the effect these larger-than-life characters have on fashion from the athletic field to the runway.

The always entertaining (and most often correct) Cathy Horyn of the New York Times writes about how we all, through fashion, share the superhero skill of transformation, accompanied by a terrific slide show.

* Not going to make it to NYC? Check out the terrific online show catalog at the bottom of this page.

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May 09, 2008

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