The more things change….
Share this link on Facebook!TweetSo, I’m cleaning and I find a random issue of AMAZING HEROES from 1989. I leave it out and save for…bathroom reading later in the day. I see that THE BEAT (before she went by that name) has a column in this issue and one of the subjects is BAT-MOVIE HYPE. [...]
Continue ReadingThis Sunday: Fashion and Fantasy panels at the Met
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAre you ready for one more symposium? This one is open to the public and free with museum admission. It’s at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and covers even more aspects of the comic book’s influence on culture. Among those appearing: Alex Ross, Paul Levitz and Adi Granov. All programs are [...]
Continue ReadingMet DC Statue update
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet In our report on the Met Fashion Institute’s superhero fashion show, we erroneously wrote that the 12-foot high statues of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman would be on display for a while. Alas, they were only there for the one day, so we count ourselves very fortunate to have seen them [...]
Continue ReadingComics and the fashion, one more time
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe comics and fashion seem to be the hot topic this week, so we’ll round up some more links. ITEM! Paul Levitz writes about the Superhero show at the Met and answers a question I had sought the answer to: When I walked into the Met yesterday morning, it was under the gaze [...]
Continue ReadingSuperhero fashions: Girdles to codpieces
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Before the ultra A-list fashion gala at the Met for the Superhero: Fantasy and Fashion exhibit, we attended the press preview earlier in the day. The place was packed with a particular kind of New York crowd that sneaks into such things: a mix of legit press, pushy cameramen in cargo [...]
Continue ReadingSuperhero Gala brings out every star
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Last night was the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Annual Costume Institute Gala, and this year it was co-chaired by George Clooney, Julia Robert, Giorgio Armani and Anna Wintour. A head-exploding collection of the biggest stars in the world, the annual gala rivals the Academy Awards for star power: Tom and Kate, [...]
Continue ReadingPepper Potts' super-shoes
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet One last IRON MAN item. It seems the ridiculous stilettos worn by Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts are spawning their OWN fashion movement: Looks like movie stars really do influence the buying habits of the many minions. Selfridges, the London department store, has seen a nearly 35% increase in sales of hyper-high heels [...]
Continue ReadingMore manga Ts at Uniqlo
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet NEW YORK – TOKYO has more on Uniqlo’s Spring line of manga-themed t-shirts: This is not just some token nod to the daily expanding manga phenomenon in the US, but a truly informed and deeply realized tribute to the diversity of manga straight from its native country. From Golgo 13 to [...]
Continue ReadingFashion and the comics again
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Gwyneth Paltrow is on the cover of this month’s Vogue…and so is Iron Man’s helmet! Wacky! (Paltrow co-stars in the Iron Man movie, in case you forgot.) We’re told the insides contain more comics coverage but we haven’t been able to drop by one of New York’s rapidly-vanishing newsstands to check [...]
Continue ReadingUniqlo does Tezuka again
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Actress Chloe Sevigny models the Tezuka-inspired t-shirts from Japanese retailers Uniqlo.. This latest T-shirts have been designed in collaboration with iconic Australian artist Keith Harring, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat as well as a line devoted to the 50th anniversary of Manga magazines (the coolest Japanese comics) as seen on Chloe here in [...]
Continue ReadingPaul Pope for DKNY
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Nylon Magazine previews the new line of DKNY men’s wear which sports art by Paul Pope.
Continue Reading'Tooners now "brashly confident avatars of cool."
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Dear friends, The Beat has been blogging for nigh on four years now, and when we began, our goal was to put comics culture into the context of real world culture, and make cartoonists feel good about themselves by treating the medium as a place of ideas and influence, not the [...]
Continue ReadingJames Jean 2 Prada
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Turns out Paul Pope isn’t the only cartoonist with a designer collectin coming out. Chris Butcher links to many photos of the Spring prada line which contains numerous designs by none other than James Jean. Much more in link. Now, if only the models didn’t look like the Olsen twins channeling [...]
Continue ReadingOfficial PR on Paul Pope Jeans
Share this link on Facebook!TweetStarting in September, you will be able to purchase DKNY jackets, hoodies and tees emblazoned with the art of Paul Pope in the 2089 line. We sincerely hope that these will be in sizes that people larger than Paul Pope can wear. DKNY Jeans announces today a new collection co-designed by famed [...]
Continue ReadingAnd one more mole: Chabon on the skintight suits
Share this link on Facebook!TweetMichael Chabon goes on for pages and pages about superhero costumes in The New Yorker’s new Style issue: Now the time has come to propose, or confront, a fundamental truth: like the being who wears it, the superhero costume is, by definition, an impossible object. It cannot exist. One may easily find suggestive [...]
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