{"id":5185,"date":"2012-08-13T13:37:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T20:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=5185"},"modified":"2012-08-13T13:37:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T20:37:18","slug":"do-a-little-turn-on-the-catwalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/do-a-little-turn-on-the-catwalk\/","title":{"rendered":"Do A Little Turn On the Catwalk"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the past decade, Geekdom has taken a rocket-like flight to the top of merchandiser\u2019s short list of interest groups to cater to with comic book content getting extra special attention fueled by blockbusters like the Avengers and the more subdued The Dark Knight Rises.\u00a0 With all this attention we\u2019ve been getting over the past few years, some interesting crossovers have been popping up.\u00a0 One sign that we have really drifted out into the mainstream, is one of those crossovers being with the fashion industry.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s the emergence of geek girls as a force inside the genre, or maybe it\u2019s just part of the natural progression of merchandising.\u00a0 Whatever it is the fashion of geekery has been practically exploding over the interwebz. Blogs and hotspots like \u201cFashionably Geek\u201d and \u201cBeing Geek Chic\u201d have been dealing out the geek chic to crowds. News feeds have been overflowing with custom painted themed shoes, the latest geek themed nail art and outfits based around geek topics and characters from T.A.R.D.I.S. skirts to Storm Trooper latex cat suits. \u00a0This is all showing a clear fact- Fashion is the latest industry to join the ranks of those willing to help your average geek to build an immersive lifestyle around their obsessions.<\/p>\n

All of this sounds great for those of us who have long had to search till the ends of the Earth in order to find things we actually enjoy wearing, however there is another side to this emergence of geek culture in fashion and we wonder; is fashion itself to become one of \u201cthose\u201d obsessions? Has a culture that largely prided itself in not accepting the mainstream industries now prepared to embrace this change of status?\u00a0 Well, an upcoming Fall release from Avatar Press would make the case for yes.<\/p>\n

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Antony Johnston will be adapting a long buried film script originally conceived and developed by Alan Moore in the 1980\u2019s into a ten-issue miniseries twenty five years after it was written.<\/p>\n

\u201cFashion Beast\u201d has been described by Moore (who had final approval and was involved in the development along the way) as \u201csomething along the lines of marrying the strange and isolated life of Christian Dior with the fable Beauty and the Beast.\u201d<\/p>\n

The title is currently available from ComicPull and will be released to the wider audience this fall. This is by no means the first foray of the fashion world onto the pages of comic books though, including an offering exposing the seedier side of the glamour by designer Isaac Mizrahi in his \u2018Adventures of Sandee the Supermodel\u201d as far back as 1997.<\/p>\n

With a slew of comic book character fashion adaptations popping up all over the web, currently favoring the Avengers and as fans with a fashion bent get inspired by their favorite heroes and villains, are we seeing what it means to truly be absorbed into the mainstream? \u00a0So many new forms of fan expression are coming forward with such talented creators, the real question here is; has geek really become the new cool?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the past decade, Geekdom has taken a rocket-like flight to the top of merchandiser\u2019s short list of interest groups to cater to with comic book content getting extra special attention fueled by blockbusters like the Avengers and the more subdued The Dark Knight Rises.\u00a0 With all this attention we\u2019ve been getting over the past […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-1lD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5121,"url":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/to-set-the-trend\/","url_meta":{"origin":5185,"position":0},"title":"To Set the Trend","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"August 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Geek girls have long been a myth shrouded in mystery whose very existence was often denied by skeptics. 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