Son of Anarchy  Riccardo Tisci was too young to experience punk
firsthand, but he has absorbed its lessons in provocation. The
Givenchy designer, who will host Monday night's Met Gala, tells
about his own journey from chaos to couture  Published May 03,
2013 Continued (Page of )  Riccardo Tisci is both an unlikely
and a logical choice to host the opening gala for this year's
Costume Institute exhibition, Punk: Chaos to Couture. Unlikely
because he was a mere infant when punk was born. In fact, Tisci
himself initially thought the honor should go to an English
designer. But in another way, the role fits him. He jokes that
he is now "the good boy of LVMH," and he has the commercial
success and recently renewed contract to prove it, but he was
for many years the luxury group's dark prince, whose radical
reinvention of the house of Givenchy brought cries of sacrilege
from the critics. If punk is above all an attitude, Tisci has
that to spare. Our interview took place in a room at The Mercer
hotel in Soho. In perso