Monday, August 5, 2013

(05-08-2013) PUNK { From Chaos To Couture } [ He4lthherb4l ]


PUNK { From Chaos To Couture } Aug 5th 2013, 16:19

Punk_1Like the hippies before them, members of the punk movement were making a statement against fashion ~ but their influence has been felt inside its culture-sensitive halls ever since. Both were about an attitude of rebellion, about reshaping the world via the most common tools we use to move through it: our clothes.Punk2Punk started to take seed in the early 1970s, quickly blossoming into a vibrant subculture with swirling epicenters in New York and London. Its aesthetic leaned heavily on a Do-It-Yourself ethos, walking a fine line between fragility and vulgarity. It’s a dichotomy that is delicately explored by this summer’s Costume Institute exhibit at The Met, where correlations between punk’s DIY execution and couture’s ‘made-to-measure’ regulations find myriad, arresting parallels. Punks rejected fashion, but fashion has wholeheartedly embraced their visual symbols ever since. Punk3 Punk4 Punk5I believe that Internet culture has revived this spirit of individualization in style: fashion these days is whatever you or I want it to be. Social media is its own revolution! But nothing is meaningful without context, and fashion history especially is a well of cultural clues. I’m a hungry sponge for information, I read and see everything I can. It’s how I stay inspired and evolving ~ so I begged, bribed, and pleaded with The Met to let us in to shoot this special exhibition. However far away you may live, I knew you had to see it too! Punk6 Punk7 Punk8 Punk9 Punk10Though the punks may not have intended it, their effect on couturiers has created some of the most memorable moments of late-20th and early-21st century fashion legacy ~ from Elizabeth Hurley’s safety-pin Versace gown (above left), to half of Ricardo Tisci’s oeuvre at Givenchy. Punk11 Punk12|ABOVE| couture beading inspired by safety pins Punk13 Punk14 Punk15 Punk16 Punk17 Punk18 Punk19 Punk20 Punk21 Punk22 Punk23|ABOVE + BELOW| Vivienne Westwood’s crude take on a culture she helped to create Punk24 Punk25 Punk26 Punk27 Punk28 Punk29|ABOVE| self-inflicted Sharpie-style scribbles take on a couture twist, in delicate beading Punk30 Punk31 Punk32 Punk33 Punk34 Punk35|ABOVE + BELOW| ‘trash’ couture Punk36 Punk37 Punk38 Punk39|ABOVE + BELOW| go out and make your own art today ~ out of something, anything! Punk40 Punk41 Punk42 Punk43 Punk44If you’re going to be in New York between now and August 14th, I highly encourage you to escape the heat and pay a visit to The Metropolitan Museum, to slide down this dark little rabbit hole of twisted inspirations.  Punk45|PHOTOS| by Austin Phelps

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