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Posted May. 5, 2008,
Shebam! Pow! Blop! Whizz!
By Julia Frakes
With the upcoming Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy exhibition opening at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum on May 7, countless hero-worshipping articles are scrawling the pages of nearly every fashion (and some non) publication as of late. I've been majorly bummed however that not one has featured the buoyant Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot 1968 duet "Comic Strip"! This is especially surprising since Nathan Crowley's Met exhibit design creates the illusion of actually being trapped inside a comic strip -- with its dropped grid ceiling, ultra glossy white floors, exceptionally angular vignettes, backdrops abounding with superhero symbols, panoramic Gotham skylines and mammoth mirrors painstakingly positioned at angles which let attendees see the beginning and end of the show from any position.