superheroes
Superheroes In the Window At Agent Provocateur
Fashion Indie September 28 at 12:32
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Check out these awesome windows at Agent Provocateur, inspired by women superheroes.
THE IN(DIE) LIST: High Fashion Superheroes
Daniel Saynt, Editor-In-Chief March 30 at 11:00
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“Holy Sky High Stilettos Batman!!! It’s The League of Extraordinarily Overstyled Gentlegays. Call Commissioner Gordon, that Margiela Sample Sale will be under attack today!!!”
From left to right
BUTCH AIKEN a.k.a. BICURIOUS
When the US government jetisoned a giant trash heap of never purchased issues of Details Magazine into space, no one assumed they’d ever reenter earth’s atmosphere as a giant flaming gaytorite, especially not Butch Aiken. The Ohio teen came face to face with the powerful gaytorite one fateful evening while leaving his on again/off again friends with benefit Stellas house (more on her later). Gifted with the amazing ability to steal his girlfriends clothes and “work”a manbag, BICURIOUS is the ever fierce but always questionable member of the League of Extraodinarily Overstyled Gentlegays.
KARMEN GREY a.k.a. TWINKLE
A 48 year old mad stylist with the face of an infant, Karmen was gifted with perpetual youth while working the shoot of legendary snap jockey CoCo Le Farge. While shooting an Arabian scene, Karmen “unintentially” rubbed the nub of the ancient photographer releasing a magical genie that granted him one singular wish. The man asked for eternal youth and now he looks like that kid from Home Alone. No real powers but he gets carded everywhere he goes.
LEPIDIS JONES a.k.a. THE INCREDIBLE CHUNK
After spending years extreme dieting (eating laxatives and vomiting), Lepidis discovered an incredible inability to loose that last 10 pounds that would render his face thin and his belly small. He uses his extra girth to push out waify socials from front row seats at fashion week and complains daily about how fat he is and how thin everyone else is, thereby making everyone around him feel a little bit better about themselves.
STELLA MESSING a.k.a. FAG HAG
Realizing that she would never find anyone who could “understand” her as well friend with benefits, Butch Aiken, Stella left her job at Kohl’s to follow the transformed Bicurious and become an honorary member of the League. She has the amazing ability to not realize when the gays are being sarcastic to her and can look “frumpy” no matter what she wears.
DAVID JANIS a.k.a. NIGHT SHADE
Half Man, Half Gayday, Night Shade uses his incredible cybernetic glasses to quickly identify runway pieces on the street, spot suitable man meat, and totally know when someone actually has a good body or is just sucking in his gut to appear like he’s skinny. A bit of a loner, Night Shade only joined the League in a failed attempt to get into Bicurious’ pants. He can normally be found at fashion week afterparties… with his shades set to stunning!!!
LINKAGE: THE WATCHMEN//
Superheroes Couture Continues
Rebecca Alexander, Editor May 22 at 2:51
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I know the MET exhibit seems long gone, but I found some great images of superhero fashions and thought I would write about the history of the ’superhero figure’ in fashion, plus with all the comics turned movies coming out within the next few years, this inspiration is not yet gone from the runways
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. Until relatively recently, when they were co-opted by high art, superheroes have often been dismissed as frivolous and superficial, but their apparent triviality is the very thing that gives them the ability to address serious issues. Like Clark Kent’s nerdiness or Bruce Wayne’s playboy disaffection, the subterfuge frees superheroes to respond to and comment upon shifting attitudes toward self and society, toward identity and ideology.
Through the years, the superhero has been used to embody—through metaphor—our social and political realities. At the same time, it has been used to represent concepts reflective of sexuality and corporeality through idealized, objectified, and hyperbolic visualizations of the human body. Constantly redefined and reworked according to popular canons of beauty, superheroes embody the superlative.
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. Fashion celebrates metamorphosis, providing unlimited opportunities to remake and reshape the flesh and the self. Through fashion and the superhero, we gain the freedom to fantasize, to escape the banal, the ordinary, and the quotidian. The fashionable body and the superhero body are sites upon which we can project our fantasies, offering a virtuosic transcendence beyond the moribund and utilitarian.
I know the MET exhibit seems long gone, but I found some great images of superhero fashions and thought I would write about the history of the ’superhero figure’ in fashion, plus with all the comics turned movies coming out within the next few years, this inspiration is not yet gone from the runways
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. Until relatively recently, when they were co-opted by high art, superheroes have often been dismissed as frivolous and superficial, but their apparent triviality is the very thing that gives them the ability to address serious issues. Like Clark Kent’s nerdiness or Bruce Wayne’s playboy disaffection, the subterfuge frees superheroes to respond to and comment upon shifting attitudes toward self and society, toward identity and ideology.
Through the years, the superhero has been used to embody—through metaphor—our social and political realities. At the same time, it has been used to represent concepts reflective of sexuality and corporeality through idealized, objectified, and hyperbolic visualizations of the human body. Constantly redefined and reworked according to popular canons of beauty, superheroes embody the superlative.
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. Fashion celebrates metamorphosis, providing unlimited opportunities to remake and reshape the flesh and the self. Through fashion and the superhero, we gain the freedom to fantasize, to escape the banal, the ordinary, and the quotidian. The fashionable body and the superhero body are sites upon which we can project our fantasies, offering a virtuosic transcendence beyond the moribund and utilitarian.
Melanie Von Alexandria Launches ‘Superwoman’ Collection
Rebecca Alexander, Editor May 22 at 11:43
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Designer, Melanie Von Alexandria explores the significance of innovative beauty in her ready-to-wear, couture and jewelry collections. In an age where designers borrow from each other, Melani Von Alexandria cultivates a revolutionary idea – an ability that extends to her work. MVA’s ongoing collaboration with the City of Philadelphia has revived fashion history. The designer’s ingenuity has garnered unwavering support and excitement in her quest to address the daily struggles of a city gripped with violence in cinematic style.
In a nod to ‘SUPERHEROES’ (Fashion and Fantasy – Metropolitan Costume Institute Exhibit), Von Alexandria named her Spring 2009 Collection ‘SUPERWOMAN.’ This latest body of work continues the creative and original tapestry of her hybrid vision, Gunn Metal Beauty Collection.
‘SUPERWOMAN’ is an ethereal collection that encourages the interplay between the duality of nature and other forms. Laced with tailored organza, silk jersey and pleated cotton, this dynamic spring collection drapes (itself) around MVA’s imaginative ornaments, brooches, and cuffs formed out of a one-of-a-kind alloy: gun metal. This showing will reveal the first pieces of the collection to be officially launched in December of this year.
