We're so pretty in punk: Anti-Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York examined

  Punk rockers wanted anarchy. They ended up with a ($ A550) T-Shirt $ US565.

This is the story told in a major new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York called Punk: Chaos to Couture.

The exhibition, which occupied on a crowded preview and celebrities Monday, follows the unlikely event of a motion for the original fusion music, drugs and anti-establishment yells known, with the glittering world of high sewing.

The collection in the elegant rooms of the Met, only a gallery of ancient Greek sculptures is a real time capsule deliberately destructive, often self-destructive genre.

Shaky video clips of Sid Vicious and other rockers played on large screens. The air is filled with snippets of music and wisdom gurus punk.

There is even a replica of the bathroom in the famous nightclub CBGB in Manhattan, circa 1975.

The room is complete with the Ramones on the speakers, "DEAD BOYS rule" graffiti and cigarette butts on the ground is something you never now see smoking in the clubs of New York.

The authentic smell and of course, people are missing: they do not fall within the Met, even if they were outside the door.

Chaos sewing is not too coarse, punk revolutionary.

Rather, punk, subculture and died as a nihilistic life returned as prime gateway mode.

The exhibition argues that the love of punk low-cost fashion statements improvised as a tear in a T-shirt or a series of toilet agrees with modern designer jewelry as the work was.

"In a strange twist of fate, has its do-it-yourself ethos, the future of" no future "," according to the records of the show.

"While the punk philosophy can seem to be sewing tailor-both defined by the same impulses of originality and individuality in conflict with the philosophy."

Model to model, there are in the galleries of the Met wearing high-end clothes, punk-inspired. An evening dress Versace Spring / Summer 1994 sporting big safety pins.

A dress draped chain Balenciagamini Autumn / Winter 2004 is pink near a Givenchy silk chiffon dress with gold zippers spring / summer 2011.

The scene seems far from the soundtrack of the show where visitors to the likes of the Sex Pistols musing on the need to "shock people" and invited "obscene and useless as possible."

However, the exhibition highlights, marketing and fashion have never been away from the experience of punk.

Legendary impresario Malcolm McLaren's start with almost the British punk sex charming that he and his partner Vivienne Westwood was credited on the Kings Road in London. And they went on become one of the main developers.

After half a dozen pieces, the exhibition at the Met ends near the same way that punk ended: with a gift shop.

Here the modern punk rocker in a $ US565 Givenchy T-shirt can emblazoned with graffiti style lettering or Westwood herself, a relative flight to be U.S. $ 100 fitted.

Want your safety pins with beads? For $ US775, they are yours.