2013 Awards Season Master List
Posted: January 8, 2013 Filed under: Linking | Tags: emma stone, superhero actor Leave a comment »Guys, there are so many Awards Shows. Look at this list. It’s only a matter of time before they start giving out awards for the best awards show so they can have another awards show. But good for fashion, right?
I can’t post JUST a list of shows and dates even if it does promise to someday be an index of Superheroine of the Night posts. And why NOT post this stunning picture of Emma Stone’s (stunning) back? Right?
Chicks Dig Comics
Posted: April 6, 2012 Filed under: Linking, Ready-to-Wear | Tags: avengers, chicks dig comics, disney Leave a comment »
Chicks Dig Comics is a collection of essays by and about women enjoying comic books. And it’s super awesome. There is so much variety and exuberance, it’s really special. The contributors are from all sorts of backgrounds and represent all sorts of websites and activities. Authors, artists, editors, bloggers, cosplayers, conventioneers… Plus interviews with creators whose work reflects they understand chicks dig comics.
I have an essay, Captain America’s Next Top Model, about using fashion to show off your inner superhero. It’s an extension of this blog so if you are reading this you should go get the book! Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and hopefully your local comic book store.
So, Anika, now that you somehow wound up published in between Kelly Thompson (Comic Book Resources) and Louise Simonson (Power Pack), what are you going to do?
I am going to Disney World! More importantly, I’m going to ride the AVENGERS MONORAIL. We’re actually going with the local high school band, the MHS Blue Dragons. So I will be a dragon, dressed in my special Disney outfits*, riding the Avengers monorail. Best week ever, right?
Buy the book! You won’t regret it.
*While packing I realized I could dress “in the style of Spider-Man” all seven days if I wanted to. I’ve decided to be proud.
RedBubble NYCC Contest!
Posted: September 15, 2011 Filed under: Interactive, Linking Leave a comment »If you are anything like me you have a posse of original characters running around inside your brain. How would you like to see it on a T-Shirt in New York City? Not a posse of supers running around our brains (though, that might make a clever t-shirt!) but YOUR ORIGINAL CHARACTER.
The Challenge
Fancy having your own design featured at New York Comic Con?
Of course you do, so you need to get your concentration hat on and read these words:
Your task is to create your very own, highly original, comic book character. Superhero or villain. Splendidly powerful, embarrassingly weak, or just quite good at chess. Give them skills you’ve always wanted or defects you’ve always dreaded. Give them a snappy name and stick them on a t-shirt.
What would your character wear? What’s their calling card, weaponry or gadgetry? What’s their story? What are they fighting for or against? It’s up to you to answer these questions.
We’ll then whip the winning design into a limited edition, official RedBubble/NYCC 2011 t-shirt to be featured, praised, discussed and given to hundreds of adoring comic fans in New York this October.
Full details on the The New York Comic Con Design Challenge are up now.
More on RedBubble
RedBubble is the world’s premium online marketplace for high-quality original artwork and unique products. Sourcing original work by artists from around the world, RedBubble makes the highest quality products available on demand including t-shirts, stickers and wall art. Founded in 2006 in Melbourne, Australia, RedBubble.com draws over 4 million unique visitors monthly, ships to over 140 countries and plays host to more than 150,000 contributing artists who have uploaded over 6.5 million inspired items of original work to the site. Find your originality on RedBubble http://www.redbubble.com.
Berlinele says: Watch this Space!
Posted: November 30, 2010 Filed under: Linking Leave a comment »Due to scheduling and technical difficulties we have been slow lately, HOWEVER, Red Carpet Superhero is currently undergoing a facelift and will return for awards season!
If you have any suggestions for the site or content (especially additional Ready-to-Wear requests), please feel free to send them my way —
email: tightropemarvel@gmail.com
twitter: tightropemarvel //
Interactive Weekend: NYCC
Posted: October 7, 2010 Filed under: Event, Interactive, Linking | Tags: nycc 1 Comment »This weekend I will be at New York Comic-Con along with thousands of my closest friends. Or, well, people I don’t know but share a love of superheroes with so it’s AS IF we are close friends. If one of my thousands of close personal friends was Karl Lagerfeld I would totally wear THIS to NYCC:
Style that with something like this handbag and gloves:
Interactive Thursday: Ready-To-Wear
Posted: September 2, 2010 Filed under: Interactive, Linking 3 Comments »As you know, we have started a new column Ready-to-Wear Superhero (this week: SPIDER-MAN) and it has been a great success, showing up at Invisible Jetcast and Fantastic Fangirls, and getting some wonderful word-of-mouth attention — thank you all. We have exciting plans for the project and the blog so keep watching! Meanwhile:
Do you have a favorite superhero you would like profiled for Ready-to-Wear Superhero? We’d love to hear it! Just email (tightropemarvel@gmail.com), tweet (@ RCS, Anika, or Christian), or comment. We’d also love to hear about RTW Superhero on you! If you’ve tried a look, let us know how it went — send a photo and we’ll post it!
Thank you for your continued support, we really appreciate it!
Anika and Christian
–
Recap! (AmfAR VIII)
Posted: May 21, 2010 Filed under: Linking | Tags: AmfAR, cannes, diane kruger Leave a comment »It’s True! Dree Hemingway emerges as superheroine of the night. She is joined by Emily Blunt and Ana Beatriz as a Phoenix and a Diamond, respectively (vote in the poll!). Grace Jones is the best supervillain of the night EVER (though King Karl continues to be my favourite). Worst Dressed includes Marion Cotillard, Kirsten Dunst and Elizabeth Banks while Best Dressed honors Camilla Belle, Michelle Williams and Jennifer Lopez. In the middle are Michelle Rodriguez, Karolina Kurkova, Kate Beckinsale and more. Best Dressed Overall?
Strut for a Cure
Posted: May 17, 2010 Filed under: Linking, Runway Fashion | Tags: coco rocha Leave a comment »
Why I want to be in France.
Posted: May 10, 2010 Filed under: Linking | Tags: cannes, diane kruger, karl lagerfeld, naomi watts, tim burton Leave a comment »I want to go to France. I’d brave the volcanic ash cloud (which, by the by, I think would be an awesome plot for a super-villain: the volcano that held Europe hostage!).
Sex and the City should be a comic book.
Posted: May 26, 2010 | Author: Anika | Filed under: Commentary, Linking, Performance Fashion | Tags: girl power, sex and the city | 5 Comments »Yesterday was “International Geek Pride Day” and I celebrated by window-shopping 5th Avenue and going to a press screening of Sex and the City 2. None of which sounds “mainstream geeky” but maybe the following suggestion will make up for it.
It was mid-way through the movie; the gals change into camel-riding-ready outfits (from Dior and Vuitton, of course) and they strut across the sand, a fearsome foursome if there ever was one. The wind made their outfits billow and Cynthia Nixon’s Miranda suddenly had a full-on cape. Later on Samantha makes an absolute spectacle of herself as only Samantha can. Shouting at a disapproving Middle Eastern crowd that she has sex and likes sex thank you very much she made it very clear that she will not be covered up or contained and she became a superhero for the covered up and contained women watching. Women who then took all four of our heroines behind closed doors and revealed their own secret identities (and designer outfits, of course). This is just begging to be a comic book.
Read the rest of this entry »