Punk: Chaos to Couture (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Nothing on King's Road in 1977--or the Bowery in 1975, for that matter--could compete with the clothes in this book for aggressivness, poetry, and sheer devotion to hardware. ButPunkalso captures the discomfort of admiring DIY fashion deracinated from social context: Locked so far away from the beating heart of punk, the clothes, no matter how dramatic, are soulless. --Sarah Leonard