Superhero fashion and Batwoman love

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More supercouture in the news:

Style.com's "We Can Be Heroes" fashion round-up

Plus: why the Costume Institute's Harold Koda is a Spider-Man guy

NY Times Magazine superhero fashion slideshow, Pow! Kerplow!! Boing!!!

Because no newspaper has ever used old Batman sound effects in a headline before. No, never.

NY Times slideshow on the Batwoman Look

"Superhero is the new floral," although "it appears the superhero fantasy, or the idea of being transformed into a bigger, better, more magical version of oneself, has been in the air for a while."

Batwoman costume leads to marriage:

Although they had seen each other around the Hamptons, they first talked last Halloween at a bar in Sag Harbor, to which Ms. O'Brien arrived dressed as Batwoman.

She said she fell in love instantly and invited him back to her house for a late-night meal. ''We were starving, and he cooked Portuguese sausage,'' she recalled. ''I was still in my Batwoman outfit, and I took him for a walk in the garden, to show him my trees."