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Shortly after 6:30 p.m. Monday, waiting for the first of 800 celebrities and supermodels to make their way up the long staircase of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the annual Costume Institute gala, Anna Wintour tapped a young man with a spiky blond mohawk on the shoulder. He wore a red blazer with the words "the government is lying" scrawled on the back.
"You look very handsome tonight," Ms. Wintour told him. "Thank you," he said, a little befuddled. "So do you."
It should have been obvious with a spring exhibition called "Punk: Chaos to Couture" that the scenes at fashion's party of the year, celebrating its opening, would include some of a tough-chic nature. But Ms. Wintour, the editor in chief of Vogue and a chairwoman of the annual event, had gone over the top, decorating the museum's entrance hall with a 40-foot-tall chandelier made of thousands of aluminum plates in the shape of razor blades. It was a little scary, and was expected to be dismantled by Tuesday morning.
Ms. Wintour wore a floral sequin column dress from Chanel and carried a clutch with her initials in pink sequins, raising a few protests among the many, many guests who had spent days festooning themselves with safety pins, razor blades, fauxhawks, neon hair dye, spiky shoes and combat boots. Linda Fargo, the fashion director of Bergdorf Goodman, had wrapped her silver hair with a band of barbed wire. Actually, Ms. Wintour was well within the theme, too.
Andrew Bolton, the curator of the exhibition, she said, "told me this was the color of punk." Ms. Wintour added, "It's pink."
It was quite subversive to see punked-out socialites and models greeting Ms. Wintour in a receiving line with the actress Rooney Mara in sexy white lace, Lauren Santo Domingo of Moda Operandi in a long silvery gown and the Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci scrubbed up in a tuxedo.
"That was the longest staircase in the world," said the British designer Zandra Rhodes, who wore a body-fitting black dress with a coral-pink sash, which matched her hair, wrapped around her waist. (Her hair is normally that color.) The punk attendants cheered when her fellow British designer Vivienne Westwood walked in.
Inside the exhibition, while waiting for a dinner that cost $150,000 to $250,000 per table and included — no joke — Jell-O shots for dessert, all the fabulous people 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 Madonna (wearing an outrageous tartan jacket with spikes from Givenchy, shredded fishnets and no pants) or Kim Kardashian, who arrived with her baby bump, an unforgiving-as-wallpaper Givenchy floral dress and Kanye West, the evening's entertainment.
The strange thing, with all the garbage bag dresses on display and a re-creation of the nasty CBGB bathrooms as a "period room", was that no one was shocked. "I wish I had been at CBGB back in the day," Seth Meyers of "Saturday Night Live" said. "By the time I was there it was already DEFG. It had already moved down the alphabet."
Heidi Klum took one look at the urinals and said, "You can still go to certain clubs in London and see this."
But there is nowhere else you could have seen Gwyneth Paltrow in a candy-pink Valentino gown with a cutout band across the chest, Nicole Richie with her hair dyed a shocking gray, Anne Hathaway with super blond hair channeling Debbie Harry, and Ms. Harry herself, dressed as if for a combination wedding-funeral in a black tartan dress by Tommy Hilfiger.
"It's quite wonderful," Ms. Harry said of the scene before her, even though punk, as it turns out, makes a surprisingly difficult subject to capture in a museum exhibition. It was a short period, and most of the clothes, as they were meant to be, were ruined.
"This stuff was old when they put it out," the writer Fran Lebowitz said, after walking through the show backward.
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