April, 24th, 2013

Berlin. Majorca. New York. | Max von Gumppenberg + Patrick Bienert for Miguel Adrover

“I don’t give a shit about money; I don’t believe in Chanel; I don’t believe in Karl Lagerfeld; I don’t believe in Yves Saint Laurent; but I do believe you can change society.”. Miguel Adrover designs’ will be featured in the MET upcoming PUNK: Chaos to Couture

Miguel Adrover will exhibit along with fellows Thom Browne, Christopher Bailey (Burberry), Hussein Chalayan, Francisco Costa (Calvin Klein), Christophe Decarnin (Balmain), Ann Demeulemeester, Dior, Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana (Dolce & Gabbana), John Galliano, Nicolas Ghesquière (Balenciaga), Katharine Hamnett, Viktor Horsting e Rolf Snoeren (Viktor & Rolf), Christopher Kane, Rei Kawakubo (Comme des Garçons), Karl Lagerfeld (Chanel), Helmut Lang, Martin Margiela, Malcolm McLaren, Alexander McQueen, Franco Moschino & Rossella Jardini (Moschino), Kate & Laura Mulleavy (Rodarte), Miuccia Prada, Gareth Pugh, Zandra Rhodes, Hedi Slimane (Saint Laurent), Stephen Sprouse, Jun Takahashi (Undercover), Joseph Thimister, Riccardo Tisci (Givenchy), Gianni Versace, Junya Watanabe, Yohji Yamamoto and Vivienne Westwood.

In the meantime, a forty-foot-long, Styrofoam statue of Dame Vivienne in the nude was banned by Anna Wintour, Vogue’s editor-in-chief AND Co-chair of The Met Gala, to avoid “needless distractions” eliminating an interactive element for les invités who could project graffiti onto it via the Internet and their phones. Mrs. Wintour is all about immaculate hosting. Punk, yes but classy ! One can argue but etiquette never fails. We applaude her fortitude.

The MET spring 2013 Costume Institute exhibition, PUNK: Chaos to Couture, will examine punk’s impact on high fashion from the movement’s birth in the early 1970s through its continuing influence today.

Featuring approximately one hundred designs for men and women, the exhibition will include original punk garments and recent, directional fashion to illustrate how haute couture and ready-to-wear borrow punk’s visual symbols.

Focusing on the relationship between the punk concept of “do-it-yourself” and the couture concept of “made-to-measure,” the seven galleries will be organized around the materials, techniques, and embellishments associated with the anti-establishment style. Themes will include New York and London, which will tell punk’s origin story as a tale of two cities, followed by Clothes for Heroes and four manifestations of the D.I.Y. aesthetic—Hardware, Bricolage, Graffiti and Agitprop, and Destroy.

Presented as an immersive multimedia, multisensory experience, the clothes will be animated with period music videos and soundscaping audio techniques.

New York | The MET | May 9 – August 14, 2013