Punk Couture Chaos @ The Met

Sid Vicious in 1977.

Photo By Dennis Morris

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is going punk couture for its Spring 2013 exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, "Punk: From Chaos to Couture" will "highlight the origins of the punk movement and draw direct connections to haute couture and ready-to-wear creations that it has inspired for the past three decades," Women's Wear Daily reports.

Designers who had a real influence on punk designs will be shown.  The Spring 2013 exhibit will highlight looks from Azzedine Alaia, Ann Demeulemeester, Dolce & Gabbana, Marc Jacobs, Rei Kawakubo, Alexander McQueen, Alexander Wang and Rodarte. This show will pinpoint the origin of punk designs in the early to mid-1970s in both New York and London and trace the influence of punk stylings throughout the decades. Perhaps we will see Elizabeth Hurley's famous Versace safety-pin dress from 1994 again.

Watch for it, May 9 to Aug. 11

Read more details over at WWD

Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations

  “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations,” Saturday, May 12, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

In May, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will open “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations,” linking Elsa Schiaparelli, the leading designer of the Surrealist movement, with Miuccia Prada, herself a formidable patron of the arts. 

Andrew Bolton, curator, The Costume Institute, MMA

The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium 

The Costume Institute's latest exhibition explores the affinities between Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, Italian designers from different eras. Andrew Bolton will address the ways in which both women employed unconventional textiles, colors, and prints to play with conventional ideas of good and bad taste, and how they exploited whimsical fastenings, fanciful trompe l'oeil details, and deliberately rudimentary embroideries for strange and provocative outcomes.

Admission to Members' free lectures is by ticket, obtainable in advance by calling the Membership Office at 212-650-2620 or emailing meghann.mckale@metmuseum.org.