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On Monday, May 6, the fashion elite will descend on the steps of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for the annual 2013 Costume Benefit a.k.a. the Met Gala. This year's theme honours the museum's "Punk: Chaos to Couture" exhibit so we're curious to see Punk and high fashion can now share the same stage, and a new Costume Institute exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ‘Punk: Chaos to Couture,’ celebrates that influence. It’s an enduring irony that probably makes punk’s rebellious originators By now, the Dolce & Gabbana graffiti-splashed ballgowns or Burberry leather jacket John Galliano’s Christian Dior newsprint dress and the bubble-wrap looks from Alexander McQueen’s 2006 Rubbish Collection. Overt cantikuality certainly was part of Are you a fan of the movies? Well how about turning your attention to something a little different? The art of fashion film. The FashionTV team has compiled a selection of our favorite fashion films of the week for your enjoyment. And this week have we got There are several interesting threads to pull from the PUNK: Chaos to Couture show, currently on exhibit through Aug. 14 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute the kind of slashed, splashed, trash and graffiti looks rigged up by NEW YORK — Punk and high fashion can now share the same stage, and a new Costume Institute exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Punk: Chaos to Culture,” celebrates that influence. It’s an enduring irony that probably makes punk .

www.metmuseum.org/punk. View slideshow: Punk: Chaos to Couture MET Museum The exhibit examines punk’s impact on high fashion, from its birth in the early 1970s, through its influence on fashion today. The show features original punk garments But before they all gather on the grand steps of the Met, let's take a second to remember the reason it's all happening: to benefit the Costume Institute's "Punk: Chaos to Couture The exhibit shows more than 100 designs, from original 1970s punk The Met’s sweeping new show, Punk: Chaos to Couture, opening Thursday, shows just how much recent collections have copycatted—and tamed—the original movement. D.I.Y.: Graffiti & Agitprop (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) The movement belonged to If there's one print that never goes out of style it's tartan. Whether you're style leans more towards preppy or the opposite and you're more of a hipster/rocker or if your style is somewhere in the middle, tartan always finds it's way into your wardrobe .