Bring On The Punk!
<p>Monday marks the annual Costume Institute gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which this year fetes punk’s impact on high fashion. See photography from the new exhibition.</p>

Dennis Morris/The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sex Pistols star Sid Vicious, in 1977.
Dennis Morris/The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Original New York punk Richard Hell, photographed in the late 1970s.
Kate Simon/The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jordan, 1977.
Rex USA,via The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Sex Pistols’ Jonny Rotten in 1976.
Richard Young/Rex USA,via The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A dark creation by Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons, 1982.
Peter Lindbergh,via The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A design by Hussein Chalayan featured in the spring-summer 2003 issue of Dazed and Confused magazine.
Eric Nehr

A knit dress by American design duo Rodarte in Vogue's July 2008 issue.
David Sims/The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A design by Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel appears on model Dara Werbowy in Vogue's March 2011 issue.
David Sims/The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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