July 24

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART – PUNK: CHAOS TO COUTURE

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JULY 24, 2013

The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met’s spring 2013 Costume Institute exhibition, PUNK: Chaos to Couture, will examine punk’s impact on high fashion from the movement’s birth in the early 1970s through its continuing influence today. Featuring approximately one hundred designs for men and women, the exhibition will include original punk garments and recent, directional fashion to illustrate how haute couture and ready-to-wear borrow punk’s visual symbols.

Focusing on the relationship between the punk concept of “do-it-yourself” and the couture concept of “made-to-measure,” the seven galleries will be organized around the materials, techniques, and embellishments associated with the anti-establishment style. Themes will include New York and London, which will tell punk’s origin story as a tale of two cities, followed by Clothes for Heroes and four manifestations of the D.I.Y. aesthetic—Hardware, Bricolage, Graffiti and Agitprop, and Destroy.

Presented as an immersive multimedia, multisensory experience, the clothes will be animated with period music videos and soundscaping audio techniques.

PHOTOS: Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Title Wall Gallery
Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

D.I.Y.: Graffiti & Agitprop
Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

D.I.Y.: Hardware
Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

D.I.Y.: Hardware
Zandra Rhodes (British, born 1940), Wedding Dress, spring/summer 1977
Courtesy of Zandra Rhodes
Zandra Rhodes (British, born 1940), Dress, spring/summer 1977,
Courtesy of Zandra Rhodes
Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art