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Bring On The Punk!

Chaos To Couture

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.

Misty White Sidell

Misty White Sidell

Published May 6 2013 4:45AM EDT

galleries/2013/05/06/bring-on-the-punk/130502-punk-met-01_jzyqcn — Dennis Morris/The Metropolitan Museum of Art

galleries/2013/05/06/bring-on-the-punk/130502-punk-met-01_rwkimf — Sex Pistols star Sid Vicious, in 1977.
Dennis Morris/The Metropolitan Museum of Art

galleries/2013/05/06/bring-on-the-punk/130502-punk-met-03_iezdwa — Original New York punk Richard Hell, photographed in the late 1970s.
Kate Simon/The Metropolitan Museum of Art

galleries/2013/05/06/bring-on-the-punk/130502-punk-met-05_x2olj6 — Jordan, 1977.
Rex USA,via The Metropolitan Museum of Art

galleries/2013/05/06/bring-on-the-punk/130502-punk-met-07_f794wr — The Sex Pistols’ Jonny Rotten in 1976.
Richard Young/Rex USA,via The Metropolitan Museum of Art

galleries/2013/05/06/bring-on-the-punk/130502-punk-met-06_nskenb — A dark creation by Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons, 1982.
Peter Lindbergh,via The Metropolitan Museum of Art

galleries/2013/05/06/bring-on-the-punk/130502-punk-met-02_nesik2 — A design by Hussein Chalayan featured in the spring-summer 2003 issue of Dazed and Confused magazine.
Eric Nehr

galleries/2013/05/06/bring-on-the-punk/130502-punk-met-04_msp4gx — A knit dress by American design duo Rodarte in Vogue's July 2008 issue.
David Sims/The Metropolitan Museum of Art

galleries/2013/05/06/bring-on-the-punk/130502-punk-met-08_vbjtrp — 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

Misty White Sidell

Misty White Sidell

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