Zandra Rhodes, 1977 Photograph by Clive Arrowsmith for Zandra Rhodes Archive
John Lydon, 1976 Photograph by Ray Stevenson/Rex USA
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PUNK: Chaos to Couture exhibition will be on view from May 9 through August 11, 2013 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Costume Institute will examine punk’s impact from the 1970s to its continuing influence on high fashion now.
The exhibition will feature approximately one hundred designs for men and women. Original punk garments from the mid-1970s will be juxtaposed with recent fashion to show how haute couture and ready-to-wear borrow punk’s symbols, with the traditional paillettes being replaced with safety pins, feathers with razor blades, and bugle beads with studs. Punk’s “do-it-yourself” concepts will be contrasted with couture’s “made-to-measure” mindset. Visitors will see the materials and techniques of PUNK in an immersive multimedia gallery experience where the clothes will be animated with music videos and soundscaping.~metmuseum
~images Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
