As the fashion world reels to the news the the ever relevant irrelevant ‘Kimye’ has taken over the Vogue cover, Naomi Campbell has spoken out. Or perhaps pulled the most epic LOL on the face of the planet. Normally I think she is stone cold B*tch, which can be great in fashion and modeling. No, really. However this time I want to hug that frozen goddess and thank her. Her rebuttal to the nasty made everyone smile. Possibly even Anna Wintour.
For those of you hiding under a rock, the Met paired with Vogue Editor Anna Wintour and several other amazing CFDA board members to present “Punk: Chaos to Couture” and opened for the annual Met Gala yesterday.
Photo by Betty Sze of Models.com
Vogue had a live stream, twitter was a-tweeting and I was live tweeting my likes and dislikes of yesterdays red carpet. What? You weren’t tweeting with me? Well then go add me at @HeathyrWolfe before you start feeling guilty.
Icons of Fashion, TV and the Big Screen showed up in droves. Some fashionable, some fashionably late. Most were punk to gills as they should have been. Vivienne Westwood made a show and an amazing political plight for Bradley Manning, the soldier at the centre of the Wikileaks drama,
Madonna in Givenchy and Casadei shoes, showed some fierce punk attitude Surprisingly, Miley Cyrus was head to toe H-O-T, in a fishnet dress by Marc Jacobs,
The piece-de-resistance was Sarah Jessica Parker. She put a smile on everyone’s face with a mohawk head piece that was vintage Phillip Treacy, a Sarah Jessica Parker In Giles Deacon Dress dress and kick your ass plaid thigh-high boots.
Others were just there to share the spotlight namely our favorite resident paparazzi junkies Kimye who failed in this floral fashion flop,
Photo by WireImage
Kristen Stewart who looked smashing but did nothing but smirk and eye roll on the red carpet
And January Jones who rode in on her broomstick, giving Anna Wintour a run for her money.
Want to see a full gallery? Check it out!
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Anne Hathaway in Valentino
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Hathaway in Valentino
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Beyonce In Givenchy
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Beyonce In Givenchy
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Emma Watson in Prabal Gurung
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Florence Welch in Givenchy
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Doutzen Kroes
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Ginnfer Goodwin in Tory Burch
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Gwyneth Paltrow in Valentino Couture
Photos by Getty or WireImage – January Jones
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Jessica Biel in Giambattista Valli
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Jessica Pare from Mad Men in a Jason Wu dress
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Joan Smalls in Tom Ford
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Karlie Kloss in Boho chic
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Katie Holmes in Calvin Klein
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Katie Holmes in Calvin Klein
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Katie Perry in Dolce Gabbana
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
Kristen Stewart
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Madonna in Givenchy and Casadei shoes
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Madonna in Givenchy and Casadei shoes
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Miley Cyrus in Marc Jacobs
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Miley Cyrus in Marc Jacobs
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Nicole Richie in TopShop
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Nicole Richie in TopShop
Photos by Getty or WireImage – SJP in Giles Deacon dress, Phillip Treacy head piece
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Marc Jacobs and Sofia Coppola in Marc J.
Photos by Getty or WireImage – The beautiful Vivienne Westwood
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Zandra Rhodes in her own design
Photos by Getty or WireImage – Rooney Mara in Givenchy
Regardless of dress, time, place punk will forever be honored with amazing displays from icons like Vivienne Westwood & McLaren and my favorite, Alexander McQueen. They are all showing right now at the Met so go check out the exhibit STAT!!.
I know you may be a little too far to get NYC so below I give you Daria Werbowy in a Punk Story. Daria Werbowy – Punk Stories by Vogue.com
Who say’s Punk is dead? Not the NY MET Costume Institute. Recently Anna Wintour, Riccardo Tisci and several others put their best punk foot forward at a gala to display a full array of punk wear. Original Vivienne Westwood/Malcolm McClaren, McQueen, Lagerfeld and Galliano’s outfits are displayed in this diverse look at punk influence.
Punk art & street influence began to show its distasteful head in the mid-1970’s and still has a rough handle on the fashion industry to this day. Ricardo Tisci of Givenchy, Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm Mclaren embraced it around 1976 and never looked back. To this day Westwood’s punk influence is still pretty heavy in her collections. You don’t get to be a well-known designer of 30+ years by playing it safe. And punk, has NEVER been safe.
Checkout the display in New York City from the MET evening of Punk.
All photos by Betty Sze of Models.com – Alexander McQueen, 2008All photos by Betty Sze of Models.com – Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld 2011All photos by Betty Sze of Models.com – Commes Des Garcon, 2004All photos by Betty Sze of Models.com – Dior by John Galliano 2006All photos by Betty Sze of Models.com – Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci, 2007All photos by Betty Sze of Models.com – left: Vivienne Westwood & Malcolm Mclaren 1976, Right: Rodarte, 2008All photos by Betty Sze of Models.com – Moschino, 1994All photos by Betty Sze of Models.com – Versace by Gianni Versace, 1994All photos by Betty Sze of Models.com – Vivienne Westwood & Malcolm Mclaren 1976All photos by Betty Sze of Models.com – Vivienne Westwood & Malcolm Mclaren, 1976All photos by Betty Sze of Models.com – Zandra Rhodes, 1977