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Byline: Photographed by Craig McDean.
The Costume Institute's spring blockbuster celebrates the power and the glory of superhero style. Hamish Bowles is awestruck by the feats of imagination.
The superhero is really the ultimate metaphor of fashion," declares Andrew Bolton, curator of "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy," the Costume Institute's dynamic new exhibit (Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 7-September 1). "It's about the transformation of identity through fashion, through clothing, through one's appearance."
In a year that sees the release of The Incredible Hulk, starring Edward Norton; The Dark Knight, with Christian Bale; and Iron Man, ...