will open to the public Wednesday, May 7, the exhibition Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy, hosted by the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York.
But a special VIP preview is scheduled for today, Monday, 5: the annual Costume Institute Gala in fact coincide with the exclusive preview of the exhibition, going to be one of the most important events of the year New York fashion.
Giorgio Armani is the sponsor of exception and the main sponsor of the event, organized in collaboration with Condé Nast.
Many, many, in addition to Armani and Anna Wintour guests expected. To do the honors, including the actors George Clooney and Julia Roberts, but it also heralds the long list of designers and stylists who take part in the soiree, accompanied by prestigious guests ever: Diane von Furstenberg should be accompanied by the popular Olsen Twins Donatella Versace Gisele Bundchen by Dolce and Gabbana by Scarlett Johansson, Sophia Coppola Marc Jacobs ...
As the show itself, performed at the first floor of the museum more than 70 suits (including creations for the catwalk and stage costumes for the film) that will illustrate the close relationship between fashion iconography of superhero comics: A colorful parade of superb and often amusing antics create - among others - by Bernhard Willhelm, Thierry Mugler, Hussein Chalayan, Walter van Beirendonck, John Galliano, as well as Martin Margiela, Issey Miyake, Moschino and Gareth Pugh.
Andrew Bolton, curator of the Costume Institute, Harold Koda, curator of the exhibition, affrontrare have chosen this topic as complex and fascinating by splitting the display into a series of "thematic areas", each of which will examine a particular aspect of concept of "super-man" and its corresponding influence on the world of fashion.
This will bring - from section to section - analysis of the graphic body (the body of the superhero as a body and branded loghizzato) to the Patriotic Body (Think Wonder Woman sheathed in the American flag), that of the streamlined body (including Flash Gordon is a famous example) to the Virile Body, that of the fetishistic body (remember the super sexy PVC Catwoman costume?) to that of the mutant body ...
accompanist For the exhibition, which will close September 1, 2008, the volume Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy, published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and distributed by Yale University Press, with an introduction by the writer Michael Chabon.
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