Zandra Rhodes with Hamish Bowles – 2013
Photo: Helen Oppenheim
British designer Zandra Rhodes with her signature hot pink hair, now in a classic bob, with Hamish Bowles of Vogue, photographed during the Punk: Chaos to Couture Press Preview at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Zandra has some of her famous dresses included in the great exhibition. Check Museums on www.helenoppenheim.com for photos of the must-see exhibition May 9 to August 14, 2013.
Photo: Helen Oppenheim
CommentPunk: Chaos to Couture @The Met – Yamamoto
Metropolotan Musuem of Art – Photo: Helen Oppenheim
PUNK – FROM CHAOS TO COTURE – at the Metropolitan Museum of Art May 9 to August 13, 2013. Here’s Yohji Yamamoto. More fashions under Museums on www.helenoppenheim.com. Red carpet arrivals will be live streamed beginning at 7 pm on metmuseum.org/metgala, modaoperandi.com, vogue.com and samsung.com/galaxys4/punk – tonight, Friday May 6, beginning at 7 pm.Z
Hair treatment: Guido Palau … Photo: Helen Oppenheim
CommentChic Punk – 1977
Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute exhibition due May 9 to August 14, 2013 is going to make punk hot again. Not that it ever really went away. I dread to think how some punk hair cuts will ruin many a lovely face! Rooney Mara (“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”) will be one of the co-chairs. Wonder if she will cut her now long hair to a punk style again?
Fashion is another story. Punk. Chaos to Couture will examine punk’s impact from its birth In the 1970s through its continuing influence on high fashion today.
There will be approximately 100 designs for men and women, by all the usual suspects. Original punk garments from the mid-1970s will be juxtaposed with recent, directional fashion showing how pailettes were replaced by safety pins, feathers by razor blades, bugle beads by studs. Presented as an immersive multimedia, multisensory experience, the clothes will be animated with period music videos and soundscaping audio techniques.
Organized thematically, gallery sections will include Rebel Heroes, Pavillions of Anarchy and Elegance, Punk Couture, D.I.Y. Style, La Mode Destroy, all organized by my favorite Curator, Andrew Bolton. Guido Palau will design all mannequin head treatments and masks.
Hair here by Elmer Olsen, La Coupe 1977
Models: Sherry Diekrager and Elmer Olsen
Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre
For more on this chic punk-influenced hairstyle, go to HairThen, La Coupe, 70s Hair, Toronto Collection, Photo 10, on helenoppenheim.com – and watch out punk influences everywhere…
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Think Punk – For 2013
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute exhibition due May 9 to August 11, 2013 is going to make punk hot again. Not that it ever really went away. With buzzed ‘dos already happening, I dread to think how some punk hair cuts will ruin many a lovely face!
Fashion is another story. Punk. Chaos to Couture will examine punk’s impact from its birth In the 1970s through its continuing influence on high fashion today.
There will be approximately 100 designs for men and women, by all the usual suspects. Original punk garments from the mid-1970s will be juxtaposed with recent, directional fashion showing how pailettes were replaced by safety pins, feathers by razor blades, bugle beads by studs. Presented as an immersive multimedia, multisensory experience, the clothes will be animated with period music videos and soundscaping audio techniques.
Organized thematically, gallery sections will include Rebel Heroes, Pavillions of Anarchy and Elegance, Punk Couture, D.I.Y. Style, La Mode Destroy, all organized by my favorite Curator, Andrew Bolton. No news yet on who will create the hair. Meanwhile, here’s some punk from the Met Museum’s 2006 Anglo Mania Exhibition with hair concoctions by the great Julien d’Ys to get your inspirational juices going..
Photo: © Helen Oppenheim
For more on the amazing Anglo Mania Exhibition, go the Museums on helenoppenheim.com –
and watch out punk influences everywhere…