Superheros: Fashion and Fantasy

Details

  • Where: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • When: thru 09/01
  • Address: 1000 Fifth Ave, New York, New York, 10028
  • Cross Streets: at 82nd St.
  • Prices: Suggested Admission
  • Phone: 212-879-5500
  • Website: Official Website
  • Hours: Tue-Thu and Sun, 9:30am-5:15pm; Fri-Sat, 9:30am-8:45pm;
  • Transportation: Subway 4, 5, 6 at 86th St.
  • Directions: via Google Maps
  • Category: Museum, Group Show
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About

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.

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