when Punk met the MET

a little late for the Met Gala-doesn't matter-since I wasn't on the guest List-along with most Punks in the country. I have to refer you-dear Punk reader-to ANOTHER's  page with an airing of Jefferson Hack's interview with Malcolm McLaren.
McLaren and Vivienne Westwood are "the father of Punk"-and mother respectively.

PUNK Parents, the original Adam and Eve

mclaren and westwood, from Harper's Baazar, 2013

After reading the interview McLaren emerges as the soul of reason, how the worm turns. I can't help but think the PUNK: Chaos to Couture-Met Gala could have made the most PUNK of all statements in bypassing a party and have the money raked in via paypal.

Excerpted from AnOther's Malcom McLaren Moment:

Although in Warhol’s universe you had to be beautiful and buy into the image in order to be famous. Punk took that notion and subverted it. Punk was never about having to be beautiful to be famous. It was about having the democracy of being ugly…It was making ugliness beautiful. The Sex Pistols’ whole premise was: I’m going to be the artful dodger. I’m not going to accept that. I’m going to search for the authentic. I’m going to fucking write songs that I believe in. I’m going to write lyrics that haven’t been used before. I’m not following the old-fashioned template. I’m going to declare the ultimate culture: DIY.

I'd say the exhibition was aptly named-chaos to couture-from the looks of things traipsing & posing on the grand steps of the Gala.

 "Authenticity is to be found in the ruins, in reclaiming the past. That was how you preserved the authentic."MM"

PurePUNK

practically perfect-Pure PUNK

the EVE of PUNK

Vivienne Westwood-in Vivienne Westwood -her jewelry-a photograph of Bradley Manning

Westwood's Lady in Waiting, model actress Lily Cole in Vivienne Westwood

singer songwriter Grimes, far right in Chanel.

Grimes fits the mold-she too, is a Natural, Punk that is.

appropriately  played  Punk

actress Lily Collins in Vintage, with a Moschino gown

Miley Cyrus in Marc Jacobs-her current incarnation as singer is Punk looking

Julia Macklow in Zang Toi

couture PUNK

Rooney Mara wearing Givenchy

Cara Delevigne in Burberry

Punked

Sarah Jessica Parker in Giles Deacon-love the dress as a stand alone

Madonna in Givenchy

Purists (they know who they are-and present that image irregardless of a theme) Impressive.

amusing, the lovely Carolina Herrera

Sienna Miller-in Burberry-dressed as Sienna Miller-something she would wear together to any event, no doubt-and looking every bit Pure Punk.

Stella Tennant with designer Christopher Kane

Pulchritude (plain and simple, pretty)

Alexa Chung wearing Erdem

Bella Heathcote in Chanel

Anna Wintour in Chanel, Pink is the color of Punk, appropriately following in Vreeland's vernacular.

nature's PUNK

Somehow wearing a simple seersucker gown? amidst the poseurs in PUNK

is PUNK,

Zooey de Chanel in custom designed Tommy Hilfiger

J. Crew's Jenna Lyons

Damian Lewis and  Helen McCrory, don't they seem like naturals? She could easily play Westwood-and he-a convincing McLaren.

& a taste of Grimes aka Claire Bouche

now-I wonder what the actual exhibition looks like? hope to see it in June.

the look of LOVE

that's what I see.

photograph from Hamptons style magazine

of note :

all thanks to comment by Maggiebex in the NY mag story about this one: (to give full credit to this great quote)
Ladies' Home Journal flatly contradicted this notion in 1918: "The generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl."
Pink is for battelships  here
planting seeds of hate here
as if jcrew needs the help  here


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looks?

Jenna Lyons (J Crew), 

Amanda Brooks

  Fabiola Beracasa.

 

Could you wear any of these looks?

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seeking Sargent

I have made no bones about my love of portraits-the faces, noble and ignoble. Perhaps it is the back story, the history, the baggage- your call-that fascinates.
Do you see things like I do? Why is it that I am constantly seeking Sargent?

Some have it, Some don't. That John Singer Sargent quality-No, not the technical- But the artistry, the faces I seek. Is it
his composition? His sitter? Both?
What makes a good Sargent?

Rebecca Greenfield's Portrait of

 Jenna Lyons,

J.Crew's Creative Director

Rebecca Greenfield's Photography website here
photograph featured of stylish individualist Jenna Lyons is from Elle Decor here
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