The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute has announced that its next exhibit/next gala theme will be “Punk: Chaos to Couture.”
Set to take place on May 6, 2013 in New York City, the event will tribute the punk fashion movement, which was was profoundly revolutionary.
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Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton described the era to have broken “all the rules when it came to fashion, and everything became possible after [it].”
The theme will detail the dual-city origins of punk — the musical movements that started in downtown New York and the political/social movement in London, the early designers that dressed the movement — Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, and the eventual appropriation by high fashion — starting with Zandra Rhodes.
“Punk has had one of the biggest influences on fashion over the past 30 years, and sometimes people wear punk without even realizing it,” said Bolton.
