The 1993 Lois and Clark, the 1988 Superboy, and the 1990 The Flash series all still featured their hero’s iconic wardrobes. NBC’s Heroes solidified the trend in 2006, but it was the CW’s 2001 Superboy adaptation, Smallville, that first scissorsed the costume off a superhero. There’s not as much as a logo on their lapels.Īcross the Atlantic, the BBC’s Misfits sport matching orange jumpsuits, but only because the characters are juvenile offenders clocking community service hours. The team of superpowered government agents fight evil mutants in their street clothes. Despite all the film fashion fun, the only superhero costumes on TV are on ESPN. Kelley recently shot a Wonder Woman pilot for NBC, but his Amazon’s costume make-over didn’t make it into the fall line-up. The Green Lantern costume is entirely motion-captured computer graphics.ĭavid E. Ngila Dickson abandoned real-world fabrics. The biggest challenge was the cape, which had to merge “completely believable” with the “sublimely magical.” The leather straps and metal buckles say “1940’s.”Īlexandra Byrne was thinking “ancient modernism” for Thor. Sheppard trashed the spandex and went with a looser fitting cut for Captain America. Look at just this year’s super fashion:ĭesigner Anna B. In Hollywood, superhero costume design is its own industry. And Sara Pichelli stitched a sassy new suit for Ultimate Spider-Man (the black and red is almost as bold as the brown skin underneath it). George Perez and Jesus Merino just retailored the Man of Steel’s skintight threads with a Kryptonian armor design (the red briefs have, mysteriously, vanished). And comic book heroes are still working the runways. Joe Shuster’s Superman made the first superheroic fashion statement seventy years ago. Under Armour (they’re designing all of Maryland’s varsity uniforms) is championing the new menswear trend of garishly bright colors.īut it’s not new for comic books. Lukas is not a fan of U of Maryland’s new string of high fashion helmets and jerseys. A website devoted not to sport teams but their uniforms. “The trend in uniform design is more toward making costumes for superheroes than uniforms for athletes.”
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