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In 1985, two years prior to his death, Willi Smith produced and provided the garments for the experimental short film Expedition, in which a white man travels to a fictitious African country and watches brightly dressed models, wearing Smith’s design label WilliWear, escape from his suitcase at border patrol. Willi Smith was a progressive designer who thought about the vast applications of garments as an artistic medium throughout his career, designing not just fashionable clothes for the mass market, but many costumes for modern dance and performance art pieces, plays, and experimental and blockbuster films. MJ’s dress was also his very last design, unveiled at the event two months after his death from AIDS-related complications. Mary Jane’s wedding dress-for both the comic illustrations and the live recreation- was created by Willi Smith, one of the most successful African-American fashion designers of the time. A bachelor party was held for the press and a televised live reenactment of the wedding occurred at Shea Stadium prior to a New York Mets game, officiated by Stan Lee himself in front of a 50,000-person audience, and was both preceded and followed by special coverage on Good Morning America and Entertainment Tonight . The storyline synchronized across both the comic book and newspaper strip, with behind-the-scenes coverage in Marvel Age #54 and Marvel Saga #22. The 25th anniversary of the creation of Spider-Man was marked by an unprecedented Marvel public relations event, Peter Parker and Mary Jane’s 1987 wedding in The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21.
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Once again, we here at The Middle Spaces are fortunate enough to present an essay by Monica Geraffo on fashion in superhero comics and other related franchises, as with her examination of the costuming choices in the original 90s The Flash TV show, she uses choices about clothing (and in this case the person who designed them) to consider the cultural context of that moment and potential meaning in terms of the progressive stance of such Big Two cape comics.