Loved the image blurbs, Meredith :-D "Tom: Get below me. Katie: Bleep, bloop, blop. I'm a robot". Priceless!

silly, meredith. don't you know that tom turns OFF her bleeping mechanism when she leaves the house?

i thought Mystique was more about the stragetic placement of latex and loads of blue paint. not a costume, per se. more like a statement.

Took me minute to realise there were people in some of those getups. Wow.

I'm thisclose to snapping and wearing crazy crap to the office. I mean, they expect wierd stuff from the computer guy right?

Tomorrow: Tweaky outfit.

Whatever... Fuck these people. This is semi-cool work some of it, but this is just another example of the cool kids all of a sudden realizing that comics and sci-fi are fun, cool, artistic, creative and a good way to make cash, so here they come. Just like Comic-Con and Geek Chic, here come the assholes. I bet Venus Williams wouldn't know Green Lantern from Green Arrow.
I had a friend who was one of the higher ups on the football team in HS and he would trade Star Wars comics with me, but made me not tell anyone. So what did I do? Outted him in my school paper comic strip. Yeah. Now the cool kids all want to play in our 4-Color Sandbox.

So Gautier... you get my respect cause you've been doing this shit for years, and for the Fifth Element, but the rest of you can go suck a fuck.

Bitter? You bet.

Oh, but I will say.. The Supes, Batman, Wonder woman sculpture is slick. Reminds me of a Superhero version of the statue in the entry way of the Ministry of Magic.

Face it. The best part about being a superhero is wearing whatever god-awful, Doug Henning nightmare, hand me down you want, and being able to thoroughly kick the ass of those who laugh at you.

I'm wearing several of these outfits as we speak.

@Plague: Where is the pic?

@Annalee Newitz:
Oh, just you wait until All Hallow's Eve...

I gotta ask a question. Throughout history fashion has gotten more comfortable, more personalized and more useful. Why the hell then do most scifi movies and series make futuristic fashion so useless? Its uncomfortable looking, never has pockets, and often has random flaps/straps or pieces jutting out.

Just seems stupid. Do any of you really thing we are going to all wind up wearing some utilitarian asexual wardrobe in the future (military stuff not included).

@ Garrison Dean'

I'm pretty sure that the Thierry Mugler outfit has been kicking around for 5 years at least, in which case this is more the result of a call-out to designers who might have had stuff hanging around their studios rather than the product of a desperate attempt to cash-in.

Having said that, there's a lot of crap on show there and I'm pretty sure it's the fashion media trying to cash-in in a wholly obvious manner.

If that's your getup, you better make it to the WeHo Parade this year.

@Discodave: It reminds me of the time that I saw a documentary on costume designers and they were talking about how often the Oscar goes to whoever did the costume for a Period Piece where all they had to do was research and recreate, and that the people who do the stuff for Sci-Fi films and have to conceputalize, create, and come up with an entire world of different costumes get roundly ignored.

@ Garrison Dean Yup, I'll go with that - along with the argument that comedies don't win awards, sci-fi is pretty much left out in the cold in a lot of ways.
Having said that, whilst Gaultier did some great stuff for The Fifth Element, most of the sci-fi films out there go for very obviously functional utility wear - there's not much that can be done to a boiler suit to make it more thrilling without it becoming unsuited for its original purpose.

No cape, dahlink!

@Tracy Ham and Eggs is BACK (cause Steve got banned again): You didn't get the memo? We all have pocket universe pocket books in the future. And obviously, there is a food shortage coming up so we starve and are able to fit into all the cheap c'outre left over from when the style robots ruled the world for 3 years.

@Garrison Dean, King Awesome: Good point on the oscar nods going to merchant ivory CD's when compared to scifi costume design. One has to wonder why this is. Maybe we are still trying to prove to the English that we have taste. I wish one of Herbert's Dune characters could hop movies or books and slaughter a Jane Austen cast or dramatis personae.

So where was Goose Girl in all this? Did she even make the show?