Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy

The Metropolitan Museum of Art curates the online exhibit Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy.

An introduction to the exhibit says,

"Since the first appearance of Superman in 1938, the superhero has exercised a powerful influence over our collective imagination, serving as avatars or conduits for our hopes, dreams, and desires. . . .Fashion not only shares the superhero’s metaphoric malleability, but actually embraces and responds to the particular metaphors that the superhero represents, notably that of the power of transformation."

The exhibit explores connections between the fashionable body and the superhero body, and runs through September 1. Sections of it seem especially relevant to this summer's movie releases of Iron Man ("the armored body") and The Incredible Hulk ("the virile body"). Pictured above, "the graphic body."