The Metropolitan Museum's new exhibition Punk: Chaos to Couture, which was fêted earlier this week at the infamous annual Met Ball, explores the ongoing sartorial influence of the counter cultural movement that sprang to life in the 1970s. Grounded in the examination of punk’s history, the show includes full-on recreations of two of the scene's most legendary hubs: namely, the bathroom of the NY club CBGB, and the interior of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s London shop, Seditionaries. Set and production designer Gideon Ponte, who has worked with photographers like Mario Testino, Steven Meisel and Nick Knight as well as designing for feature films such as Buffalo 66 and American Psycho, was charged with creating backdrops that both emulated and elevated the genre. “I was trying to figure out how to paint the movement of punk through culture from low to high architecturally,” explains Ponte of today's images. “We 'chaosed' the architecture of the Met itself with the idea of a destroyed museum or sculpture gallery. It's actually made of polystyrene so it's fragile, and will decay over the run of the show.”