Unmaskings: Fashion Industry Revealed To Be Full Of Comic Book Geeks

Apparently, it's not for nothing that Midtown Comics is right in the middle of the Garment District.
The clever folks at Refinery 29 have done a smashing job of matching looks from the current Paris runway shows to their superhero (and superhero movie) counterparts.
Frankly, they did a better job than the Costume Institute did last Summer with their big Superhero exhibition. We would say this was reaching a bit if it weren't that designers actually sent masks, helmets and capes down the runways, in Paris.
Here at The Shophound, we have no problems admitting that we have read Watchmen a couple of times before the movie ever came out (and now we'll have to read it again to check what got left out and what was changed). Nor do we remind revealing that we went to the Apple Store in SoHo on two recent evenings to hear illustrator Dave Gibbons and actors Patrick Wilson and Jeffrey Dean Morgan talk about the book and movie, but it's nice to know that we weren't the only ones who thought of the Silk Spectre when we saw those gartered hip boots from Hussein Chalayan a few days ago.
We still have yet to see the usual Fashion Week crowd amongst the geeks on a Wednesday at Forbidden Planet, but they may just be there in their secret identities, because evidently they are totally into that sort of thing.
Catwoman, Darth Vader, and the Nite Owl Storm the Runway by Daniela Jacobs & Xiyin Tang (Refinery 29)
Previously: Our Last Post On SUPERHEROES At The Costume Institute