Comics and Couture

For all the talk that comic & sci-fi culture caters to the geeks and the nerds, it's a genre where style comes first. And if you're a fan of the source material, you've got more in common with the fashionistas reading Vogue than you're probably aware.

It's time to bridge comics and couture. 

Superhero entertainment obsesses over fashion. Cosplay is an art form. Comic conventions, glorified fashion shows. Before every great cinematic sci-fi adaptation is released, there's the inevitable reveal of the lead in wardrobe.  The pictures are analyzed, critiqued, debated...  Scrutinized in such painstaking detail, Anna Wintour, herself, couldn't be more critical!

The problem with geek chic, as a concept, is that it ignores the source material. Why, with styles so dramatically drawn, do fans of the genre stick to wearing graphic tees with printed pictures representing the hero, rather than the actual looks of the hero? It's the everyday equivalent of wearing those cheap 80's halloween costumes, where the outfit is just a printed picture of the character you're pretending to be.

Cosplay comes closer to wearing the looks of the hero, but the "costume" part is firmly built into the wardrobe in a way that makes it impossible to wear outside of the fandom.

There's an impracticality to tights and capes. Many of the styles our favorite heroes wear don't lend themselves to everyday wardrobe.

At Perro Worldwide Comics, we're changing that.

We see hero fashion beyond the confines of costume. Our character's wardrobe must be practical and fantastic, allowing the styles to weave their way into the real world in a natural and organic way.

If art is used to describe the world we live in, and fashion is art, then fashion must describe who we are. When we understand that, we know that True-Heroes don't wear costumes at all. They wear their truth, and by doing so, are revealed in them.

Our styles, our fashions, our looks... They're not costumes. They're styles. And most importantly, they're real.