The guest list rivals the Oscars in star power, but the fashion on display at last week’s “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy” gala at the Met’s Costume Institute looked not unlike the aftermath of a top-secret government experiment gone awry. Below, a guide to who earned her Wonder Woman cuffs and who probably should have taken the invisible jet home to change.
Bruce Waynes
Rich, famous, and dressed to not be noticed.
X-Men
Their mutant powers make the world fabulous.
Bizarro World
In which everyone ends up as a caricature of him- or herself.
Wonder Women
Tough as nails Olympian goddesses. ka-pow!
Mere Mortals
Innocent bystanders.
Catwomen
Can kill just with their style minds.
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