By Paul Lieberman, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
If there is any doubt that the world is experiencing a superhero moment, then the Costume Institute's "
Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy" puts the question to rest. The exhibit, which opened Wednesday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, offers as much an opportunity to step inside the pages of a comic as you'll experience this side of a video game.
About 60 ensembles -- superhero costumes from runways, movies and sports arenas -- are on display, proving that a mere 70 years after DC Comics introduced the flying strongman from Krypton, there is no underestimating the magnetism of capes, unitards, masks and armor.
(Thierry Mugler, fall-winter 1996-1997)
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