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Spring 2013
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Shortly after 6:30 p.m. Monday, waiting for the
¿UVW� RI� ���� FHOHEULWLHV� DQG�supermodels to make their way up the long staircase of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the annual Cos-tume Institute gala, Anna Wintour tapped a young PDQ�ZLWK�D�VSLN\�EORQG�PR-
hawk on the shoulder. He ZRUH� D� UHG� EOD]HU� ZLWK� WKH�words “the government is O\LQJ´�VFUDZOHG�RQ�WKH�EDFN�“You look very handsome tonight,” Ms. Wintour told him. “Thank you,” he said, a OLWWOH�EHIXGGOHG��³6R�GR�\RX�´,W� VKRXOG� KDYH� EHHQ� REYL-RXV� ZLWK� D� VSULQJ� H[KLEL-tion called “Punk: Chaos to Couture” that the scenes at
fashion’s party of the year, FHOHEUDWLQJ� LWV� RSHQLQJ��would include some of a tough-chic nature. But Ms. Wintour, the editor in chief of Vogue and a chairwom-an of the annual event, had gone over the top, decorat-ing the museum’s entrance hall with a 40-foot-tall chandelier made of thou-
sands of aluminum plates LQ�WKH�VKDSH�RI�UD]RU�EODGHV��It was a little scary, and ZDV�H[SHFWHG�WR�EH�GLVPDQ-WOHG� E\� 7XHVGD\� PRUQLQJ�0V�� :LQWRXU� ZRUH� D� ÀR-ral sequin column dress from Chanel and carried a clutch with her initials in pink sequins, raising a few protests among the
Many guests who had spent days festooning
themselves with safety pins, UD]RU� EODGHV�� IDX[KDZNV��neon hair dye, spiky shoes DQG� FRPEDW� ERRWV�� /LQGD�Fargo, the fashion direc-tor of Bergdorf Goodman, had wrapped her silver hair ZLWK�D�EDQG�RI�EDUEHG�ZLUH��Actually, Ms. Wintour was well within the theme, too.Andrew Bolton, the cura-WRU� RI� WKH� H[KLELWLRQ�� VKH�said, “told me this was the color of punk.” Ms. Win-tour added, “It’s pink.”,W� ZDV� TXLWH� VXEYHUVLYH� WR�see punked-out socialites and models greeting Ms. Wintour in a receiving line with the actress Rooney Mara in sexy white lace, /DXUHQ� 6DQWR� 'RPLQJR� RI�Moda Operandi in a long silvery gown and the Given-chy designer Riccardo Tisci VFUXEEHG� XS� LQ� D� WX[HGR�“That was the longest stair-case in the world,” said the British designer Zan-dra Rhodes, who wore a ERG\�¿WWLQJ� EODFN� GUHVV�with a coral-pink sash, which matched her hair, wrapped around her waist. (Her hair is normally that color.) The punk atten-dants cheered when her fel-low British designer Vivi-enne Westwood walked in.,QVLGH�WKH�H[KLELWLRQ��ZKLOH�waiting for a dinner that cost $150,000 to $250,000 SHU�WDEOH�DQG�LQFOXGHG�²�QR�MRNH�²�-HOO�2�VKRWV�IRU�GHV-VHUW��DOO�WKH�IDEXORXV�SHRSOH�stared at the punk clothes on display and on one another, and sometimes it was hard to tell the difference. A lot of people were just trying to catch a glimpse of Madon-na (wearing an outrageous tartan jacket with spikes IURP�*LYHQFK\��VKUHGGHG�¿�
Kim Kar-dashian,
who arrived ZLWK� KHU� EDE\�EXPS�� DQ�unforgiving-as-wallpaper *LYHQFK\� ÀR-ral dress and Kanye West, the evening’s entertainment.The strange thing, with all WKH�JDUEDJH�EDJ�dresses on dis-play and a re-creation of the nasty CBGB E D W K U R R P V�as a “period
room”, was that no one was VKRFNHG��³,�ZLVK�,�KDG�EHHQ�DW�&%*%�EDFN� LQ� WKH�GD\�´�6HWK� 0H\HUV� RI� ³6DWXUGD\�1LJKW� /LYH´� VDLG�� ³%\� WKH�time I was there it was al-
UHDG\� '()*��It had already moved down WKH� DOSKDEHW�´Heidi Klum took one look at the urinals and said, “You can still go to FHUWDLQ� FOXEV�LQ� /RQGRQ�and see this.”But there is nowhere else you could have seen G w y n e t h Paltrow in a c a n d y - p i n k Va l e n t i n o gown with
D� FXWRXW� EDQG� DFURVV� WKH�chest, Nicole Richie with her hair dyed a shocking gray, Anne Hathaway with VXSHU� EORQG� KDLU� FKDQQHO-LQJ�'HEELH�+DUU\�� DQG�0V��Harry herself, dressed as if IRU�D�FRPELQDWLRQ�ZHGGLQJ�IXQHUDO� LQ� D� EODFN� WDUWDQ�GUHVV� E\� 7RPP\� +LO¿JHU�“It’s quite wonderful,” Ms. +DUU\�VDLG�RI� WKH�VFHQH�EH-fore her, even though punk, as it turns out, makes a
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WESTERN FASHION NEWSMay 1, 2013
Issue 5
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PHOTOGRAPHER/Ellie
