Lorre White celebrates The MET, PUNK: Chaos to Couture

Lorre White reports:

Organized by

The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

PUNK: Chaos to Couture.

This retrospective exhibition will be on display in New York City, NY

May 9 through August 11, 2013

(preceded on May 6 by The Costume Institute Benefit).

The exhibition will examine punk’s impact on high fashion from the movement’s birth in the 1970s through its continuing influence today.

To celebrate the opening of the exhibition,
the Museum’s Costume Institute Benefit
will take place on Monday, May 6, 2013.

The evening’s Co-Chairs will be Academy Award© nominated actress Rooney Mara; Lauren Santo Domingo, Co-Founder of Moda Operandi; Riccardo Tisci, Creative Director of Givenchy; and Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue. This fundraising event is The Costume Institute’s main source of annual funding for exhibitions, acquisitions, and capital improvements.

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.

Thanks to Lorre White – WOMAN of ACTION™