Wow, I'm pretty surprised at how defensive the iFanbase is about this. The very nature of the Fashion Industry is to pick up on what resonates with people at certain time, place, and/or cultural moment. Therefore, by definition, this exhibit IS a cultural apporpriation of comic book motifs and themes; it's not any different from what fashion has done in the past.
This should not be misconstrued as an attempt by the Fashion Industry to "degrade" or otherwise "demean" the value of comic books and comic book culture. And besides that, why should people care? After comics have had their fashion moment, they're still going to exist for you to enjoy. No one is saying that comic books are going away anytime soon as a result of this.
As others have said, this a fantastic blending of two of my interests and I think that they approach the material very intellligently (i.e. the ideas of fashion as a method of transforming the body to an ideal, the same way that "ordinairy" civilians transform into superheroes).
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Wow, I'm pretty surprised at how defensive the iFanbase is about this. The very nature of the Fashion Industry is to pick up on what resonates with people at certain time, place, and/or cultural moment. Therefore, by definition, this exhibit IS a cultural apporpriation of comic book motifs and themes; it's not any different from what fashion has done in the past.
This should not be misconstrued as an attempt by the Fashion Industry to "degrade" or otherwise "demean" the value of comic books and comic book culture. And besides that, why should people care? After comics have had their fashion moment, they're still going to exist for you to enjoy. No one is saying that comic books are going away anytime soon as a result of this.
As others have said, this a fantastic blending of two of my interests and I think that they approach the material very intellligently (i.e. the ideas of fashion as a method of transforming the body to an ideal, the same way that "ordinairy" civilians transform into superheroes).