BEST
SUMMER
EVER
HUFFINGTON
05.26.13
PUNK
CULTURE
ART
Chaos
Reigns
“We wanted to strip everything
down further, away from the showbiz
theatricality of the glitter bands, and
away from bluesiness and boogie. We
wanted to be stark and hard and torn
up, the way the world was.” — Richard
Hell in his recent autobiography, I
Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp
COURTESY OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID SIMS
NEW YORK — Richard Hell is the first
of seven “punk heroes” with a gallery
showcasing their impact on the fashion
world at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art’s buzzy exhibit, Punk: Chaos and
Couture. Hell rose to cult fame in the
late 1970s through his band, Richard
Hell and the Voidoids. The group didn’t
last long, but Hell’s ripped, safetypinned clothes immortalized him as an
emblem of New York’s underground
scene at the time.
Besides the group of seven, The
Met’s show, running from May to
August, displays the work of 100
designers, tracing the original “doit-yourself” punk looks scoured
from dumpsters and junk drawers to
contemporary adaptations of studs
and feathers currently on the runway.
Ahead, see punk icons Johnny Rotten,
Sid Vicious and Jordan
juxtaposed with their
counterparts on the runway.
A model poses in a design
by Karl Lagerfeld for House
of Chanel in Vogue, 2011.
PHOTO OR ILLUSTRATION CREDIT TK