Get ready to (politely) rock the casbah: the Metropolitan Museum of Art is going Sid and Nancy for its 2013 Costume Institute Exhibit.
"Punk: Chaos to Couture," the museum's big spring exhibition, 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.
Instead of focusing on one designer's retrospective like 2011's "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" exhibit or 2012's "Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations" show, then, this year's exhibit will include looks from Azzedine Alaia, Ann Demeulemeester, Dolce & Gabbana, Marc Jacobs, Rei Kawakubo, Alexander McQueen, Alexander Wang and Rodarte. With funding from both Moda Operandi and Conde Nast, the 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. (If Elizabeth Hurley's famous Versace safety-pin dress from 1994 doesn't make it in, we're quitting fashion forever.)
But the Met's punk exhibit will have some big Doc Martens to fill. In 2011, the Institute's McQueen exhibit shattered records, attracting over 650,000 visitors and netting 23,000 more memberships for the museum. While last year's Prada-Schiaparelli exhibit didn't fare quite as well, the costume institute has hosted popular exhibits on superheros, Jackie Kennedy and Coco Chanel in recent years.
"Punk: From Chaos to Couture" will kick off with the annual Met Gala on May 6, hosted by Rooney Mara and Riccardo Tisci, and the exhibit will be on public display from May 9 to August 11, 2013. We hear Miley Cyrus is already waiting in line.
Read more details over at WWD!
Take a look at the stunning guests from 2012's "Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations" opening gala!
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Beyonce in Givenchy
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Anna Wintour in Prada
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Bee Shaffer in Erdem
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Anna Wintour in Prada and Bee Shaffer in Erdem
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Carey Mulligan in Prada
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Grace Coddington in Prada
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Coco Rocha in vintage Givenchy
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Greta Gerwig in Prabal Gurung and carrying Nancy Gonzalez
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Camilla Belle in Ralph Lauren
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Tim Tebow in Ralph Lauren
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Lana Del Rey in Altuzarra
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Jessica Paré in L'Wren Scott
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Jamie King in Topshop
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Dree Hemingway in Topshop and Philip Green
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Solange Knowles in Rachel Roy and Jennifer Fisher Jewelry
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Solange Knowles in Rachel Roy and Jennifer Fisher Jewelry and Rachel Roy in Rachel Roy and carrying Nancy Gonzalez
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Elizabeth Banks in Mary Katrantzou
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Amber Heard in Zac Posen
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Zac Posen and Amber Heard in Zac Posen
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Jessica Alba in Michael Kors
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January Jones in Versace
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Brooke Shields
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Allison Williams in Ralph Lauren
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Paula Patton in Vera Wang
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Vera Wang in Vera Wang
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Vera Wang and Wendi Deng in Vera Wang
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Paula Patton, Vera Wang and Wendi Deng in Vera Wang
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Lena Dunham in Wes Gordon
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Lena Dunham in Wes Gordon and Hamish Bowles
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Ed Westwick in Prada
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Chace Crawford in Kenneth Cole
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Michelle Dockery in Ralph Lauren
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Amy Poehler in Fotini
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Amy Poehler in Fotini and Will Arnett
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Debra Messing in Fred Leighton Jewels
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Dee Ocleppo and Tommy Hilfiger in Tommy Hilfiger
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Ivanka Trump in Peter Pilotto
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Dakota Fanning in Louis Vuitton
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Sandra Lee
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Bruno Mars in Prada
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LaLa Anthony in Zac Posen and Carmelo Anthony
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Claire Danes in J. Mendel and Van Cleef & Arpels
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Claire Danes in J. Mendel and Van Cleef & Arpels and Hugh Dancy in Prada
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Lea Michele in Diane von Furstenberg
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Karolina Kurkova in Rachel Zoe
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Rachel Zoe and Karolina Kurkova in Rachel Zoe
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Hilary Swank in Michael Kors
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Hilary Swank in Michael Kors and Michael Kors
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Rooney Mara in Givenchy
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Bianca Brandolini D'Adda in Dolce & Gabbana
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James Murphy and Christina Topsøe
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The Huffington Post | By Jessica Misener Posted: 09/13/2012 7:37 am Updated: 09/13/2012 5:25 pm