Manus x Machina: OMA’s Installation for the new MET Museum Exhibition

Earlier this week, the prestigious and always glamorous Met Gala concluded. This year, we were particularly intrigued by an LED couture dress designed by Zac Posen. You can see our report on this stunning gown here. Following the Met Gala, the public today have their first look at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new spring show ‘Manus x Machina’. The exhibition space was designed by OMA, and here we have a first look.

According to the museum, “[the exhibition] will explore [an] ongoing dichotomy, in which hand and machine are presented as discordant tools in the creative process, and question the relationship and distinction between haute couture and ready-to-wear.”

Occurring in the museum’s Robert Lehman Wing, a 1975 expansion by Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo, the exhibition design has been developed by Shohei Shigematsu of OMA New York. Organized by Andrew Bolton, the Curator of The Costume Institute, the exhibition will feature over 100 samples of “haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear, dating from an 1880s Worth gown to a 2015 Chanel suit.” Read on for a small preview of the exhibition, fashion, and spectacle of Manus x Machina, on view from May 5 – August 14.