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Does punk really mean chaos? Does punk provoke anarchy? Does punk desire to overthrow the hippies? These are some of the reflections of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in the exhibition Punk: From Chaos to Couture.
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The mingling of fashion and punk is often misconstrued as an unfair juxtaposition, with both frequently overstepping one another in redefining each other. If the Elizabeth Rehnke style book is to be consulted, the key to understanding both is not in pitting them against each other as separate art entities, but by contextualizing them in a single process of transforming an idea into a visible creation that submits to the creators’ liking.
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The Punk: From Chaos to Couture exhibition deliberately goes beyond chaos to allow the designers’ intellectual forces merge with established realities surrounding punk culture and to let the designers’ own point of view flow freely through their creations. Fashion becomes the designers’ blank canvass while their cultural inclination becomes the style – this complementarity steers spectators toward cultural investigation.
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