The Sex Pistols

And J.C. Penney's new CEO makes a small dent in the retail executive landscape.

Photographer Steve Emberton on shooting this famous photo of Sid and Nacy: "We knocked on the door but nobody answered. I knocked a bit louder and still nobody answered and I was beginning to wonder if it was going to happen at all, and I knocked really loud and eventually the door opened and it was Sid and he didn’t have a shirt on or anything. He was just dressed in his leather trousers and he was standing at the door and he let us in and I thought, 'Oh this isn’t going to be much fun.'" Only it was.

"PUNK: Chaos to Couture," the latest exhibit organized by Andrew Bolton for The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, opens to the public tomorrow. The press got a first look today. And I have a feeling reactions will be mixed. (The International Herald Tribune's Suzy Menkes already panned the exhibit for being too "sanitized and bloodless.") Here's why:

"It’s going to be all 'Sex Pistols svengali' and 'punk impresario' and—God forbid—'Vivienne Westwood’s plus one' for a few weeks, but more than three