Photo Flash: Sneak Peek at The Met's PUNK: CHAOS TO COUTURE, Opening 5/9

The Met's spring 2013 Costume Institute exhibition, PUNK: Chaos to Couture, runs from May 9, 2013 to August 14, 2013. It will examine punk's impact on high fashion from the movement's birth in the early 1970s through its continuing influence today. Featuring approximately one hundred designs for men and women, the exhibition will include original punk garments and recent, directional fashion to illustrate how haute couture and ready-to-wear borrow punk's visual symbols.

Check out a sneak peek below!

Focusing on the relationship between the punk concept of "do-it-yourself" and the couture concept of "made-to-measure," the seven galleries will be organized around the materials, techniques, and embellishments associated with the anti-establishment style. Themes will include New York and London, which will tell punk's origin story as a tale of two cities, followed by Clothes for Heroes and four manifestations of the D.I.Y. aesthetic-Hardware, Bricolage, Graffiti and Agitprop, and Destroy.

Presented as an immersive multimedia, multisensory experience, the clothes will be animated with period music videos and soundscaping audio techniques.

Paul Cook, late 1970s Photograph © Dennis Morris

Comme des Garsons (Japanese, founded 1969), spring/summer 2006 Photograph by Catwalking

John Lydon, 1976 Photograph by Ray Stevenson/Rex USA

Junya Watanabe (Japanese, born 1961), fall/winter 2006â€"7 Photograph by Catwalking

Joe Strummer, late 1970s Photograph © Pennie Smith

Riccardo Tisci (Italian, born 1974) for House of Givenchy (French, founded 1952), spring/summer 2008 Vogue Italia, March 2008 Photograph ©Glen Luchford, art partner

Gary Wilson, 1977 Photograph © Roberta Bayley

Maison Martin Margiela (founded 1988), spring/summer 2011 Photograph © Nathalie Sanchez for Maison Martin Margiela

Patti Smith, late 1970s Photograph by Caroline Coon, Camera Press

Ann Demeulemeester (Belgian, born 1959), spring/summer 2000 Photograph by Catwalking

Joe Strummer, 1977 Photograph by Ray Stevenson/Rex USA

Helmut Lang (Austrian, born 1956), fall/winter 2003â€"4 Photograph by Catwalking

Sid Vicious, 1977 Photograph © Dennis Morris - all rights reserved

Karl Lagerfeld (French, born Hamburg, 1938) for House of Chanel (French, founded 1913) Vogue, March 2011 Photograph by David Sims / art partner

John Lydon, 1976 Photograph by Richard Young/Rex USA

Rei Kawakubo (Japanese, born 1942) for Comme des Garons (Japanese, founded 1969), 1982 Photograph by Peter Lindbergh

Richard Hell, late 1970s Photograph © Kate Simon

Hussein Chalayan (British, born Cyprus, 1970), spring/summer 2003 Dazed and Confused, March 2003, Photograph by Eric Nehr