The spring 2013 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be
PUNK: Chaos to Couture.
The exhibition, on view from May 9 through August 14, 2013, will examine punk’s impact
on high fashion from the movement’s birth in the 1970s through its
continuing influence today.
“Punk’s signature mixing of references was fueled by artistic
developments such as Dada and postmodernism,” said Thomas P. Campbell,
Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
To celebrate the opening of the exhibition, the Museum's Costume
Institute Benefit will take place on Monday, May 6, 2013.
Beyoncé will
serve as Honorary Chair.
Exhibition Overview
The exhibition, in the Museum’s second-floor Cantor galleries, will
feature approximately 100 designs for men and women. Original punk
garments from the mid-1970s will be juxtaposed with recent, directional
fashion to illustrate how haute couture and ready-to-wear have borrowed
punk’s visual symbols, with paillettes being replaced with safety pins,
feathers with razor blades, and bugle beads with studs. Focusing on the
relationship between the punk concept of 'do-it-yourself' and the
couture concept of 'made-to-measure,' the exhibition will be organized
around the materials, techniques, and embellishments associated with the
anti-establishment style. Presented as an immersive multimedia,
multisensory experience, the clothes will be animated with period music
videos and soundscaping audio techniques.
Designers in the exhibition will include Miguel Adrover, Thom Browne,
Christopher Bailey (Burberry), Hussein Chalayan, Francisco Costa (Calvin
Klein), Christophe Decarnin (Balmain), Ann Demeulemeester, Dior,
Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana (Dolce and Gabbana), John Galliano,
Nicolas Ghesquière (Balenciaga), Katharine Hamnett, Viktor Horsting and
Rolf Snoeren (Viktor & Rolf), Christopher Kane, Rei Kawakubo (Comme
des Garçons), Karl Lagerfeld (Chanel), Helmut Lang, Martin Margiela,
Malcolm McLaren, Alexander McQueen, Franco Moschino and Rossella Jardini
(Moschino), Kate and Laura Mulleavy (Rodarte), Miuccia Prada, Gareth
Pugh, Zandra Rhodes, Hedi Slimane (Saint Laurent), Stephen Sprouse,
Jun Takahashi (Undercover), Joseph Thimister, Riccardo Tisci (Givenchy),
Gianni Versace, Junya Watanabe, Yohji Yamamoto, and Vivienne Westwood.
A book,
Punk: Chaos to Couture, by Andrew Bolton, with an
introduction by Jon Savage, and prefaces by Richard Hell and John Lydon
(a.k.a. Johnny Rotten of the
Sex Pistols)
The Museum’s website at
www.metmuseum.org/punk
will feature the exhibition. Follow us on Facebook.com/MetMuseum and
Twitter.com/MetMuseum to join the conversation about the gala benefit.
Use #PunkFashion and #Met Gala on Twitter.
, will accompany the
exhibition. This publication will be illustrated with photographs of
vintage punks and high fashion. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, the $45 catalogue (hard cover only) will be distributed worldwide
by Yale University Press.
The exhibition is made possible by Moda Operandi.
Additional support is provided by Condé Nast.
(excerpts from
http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/press-room/exhibitions/2012/punk-chaos-to-couture)
The weekend before last, on Mother's Day, my little family and I spent the day hanging in NYC taking in art and other random fun. We dropped in the Parallax Art Fair for some inspiration and to spy the venue. One of the incredible artist we met while there was Alex Benitez. His work is so colorful, fun and child-like and he was thoughtful and kind enough to draw an impromptu abstract sketch of my daughter, totally free of charge.
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