Met Fashion 2016 Exhibit Manus Machina Karl Lagerfeld

ceiling projections in the key atrium,  designed by OMA builder Shohei Shigematsu, director of OMA New York.

Shohei Shigematsu, director of OMA New York, led the exhibition blueprint in collaboration with the Met's Design Department at the beggining of 2016. Now, the exhibitionManus x Machina: Mode in an age of Technology opens in May 5, 2016 and will be on view till Baronial xiv, 2016 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Presented in the Museum'southward Robert Lehman Wing and Anna Wintour Costume Center, the exhibition will explore the touch on of new technology on manner and how designers are reconciling the handmade and the machine-made in the cosmos of haute couture and avant-garde set-to-wear.

Shohei Shigematsu at OMA's New York role. image © Geordie Wood

Shohei Shigematsu has designed a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art- the 1970s Robert Lehman Wing, converting it into a fabulous fashion temple with double-hieght atrium, new skylight, bright, white and pure galleries. Shigematsu unfolds the space with multi-dimensional approaches -which i of them is including the projected images of dressmaking techniques. "Nosotros're trying to deliquesce the dichotomy of the hand and machine, and present it as a continuum of practice," said Andrew Bolton, curator of this fash-tech exhibition.

The Robert Lehman Wing galleries on the Museum's first floor and courtroom level presents a series of pairings of handmade haute couture garments and their motorcar-fabricated ready-to-wear counterparts. The galleries are arranged enfilade, with a suite of rooms reflecting the traditional construction of a couture atelier and its constituent petites mains workshops for embroidery, feathers, pleating, knitting, lacework, leatherwork, braiding, and fringe piece of work. These are contrasted with ensembles incorporating new technologies including 3D printing, laser cutting, thermo shaping, calculator modeling, circular knitting, ultrasonic welding, and bonding and laminating.

Karl Lagerfeld (French, born Hamburg, 1938) for Firm of Chanel (French, founded 1913). Hymeneals ensemble (back view), autumn/winter 2014–15 haute couture. Courtesy of CHANEL Patrimoine Collection. image © Nicholas Alan Cope.

Hand x Machina will feature more than 100 examples of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-habiliment, dating from an 1880s Worth gown to a 2015 Chanel adjust.Hubert de Givenchy, John Galliano, Hussein Chalayan, Issey Miyake and Karl Lagerfeld are amidst the designers presenting their works in the exhibition.

The most of import aspect of the exhibition is to reverberate the founding of the haute couture in the 19th century, when the sewing machine was invented, and the emergence of a stardom between the hand (manus) and the machine (machina) at the onset of industrialization and mass production.

Yves Saint Laurent (French, 1936–2008). Evening dress, autumn/winter 1969–lxx haute couture. French. Silk, bird-of-paradise feathers. The Metropolitan Museum of Fine art, New York, Gift of Businesswoman Philippe de Rothschild, 1983 (1983.619.1a, b). epitome © Nicholas Alan Cope.

''It will explore the ongoing rhetoric of this dichotomy in which hand and auto are presented as discordant instruments in the artistic process, and volition question this oppositional relationship too as the significance of the time-honored distinction betwixt the haute couture and ready-to-wear'' stated in OMA's project description.

Iris van Herpen (Dutch, born 1984). Wearing apparel, autumn/winter 2013–14 haute couture. Dutch. Silicone, cotton fiber. The Metropolitan Museum of Fine art, New York, Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 2015 (2016.fourteen). prototype © Nicholas Alan Cope.

The Anna Wintour Costume Heart galleries will nowadays a series of "in process" workshops, including a 3D-printing workshop where visitors will witness the cosmos of 3D-printed garments during the course of the exhibition. OMA New York will also pb the concept design for The Costume Institute Do good, held on May two.

Iris van Herpen (Dutch, born 1984). Ensemble, spring/summer 2010 haute couture. Dutch. Polyamide, acrylic, leather. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Friends of The Costume Establish Gifts, 2015 (2016.16a, b). epitome © Nicholas Alan Cope.

Apple tree sponsored to the exhibition as the high-tech company wanted to remove boundaries between handmade and automobile-made way. Jonathan Ive, chief design officer at Apple, has collaborated with the Metropolitan Museum of Fine art and Met Museum Costume Constitute for this cracking testify and exhibit.

Issey Miyake (Japanese, born 1938) for Miyake Blueprint Studio (Japanese, founded 1970). "Flying Saucer" dress, spring/summer 1994. Courtesy of The Miyake Issey Foundation. image © Nicholas Alan Cope.

"Information technology's a completely false notion that at that place is inherent value in what is fabricated by hand, or an inherent lack of value in what is made by machine," said Jonathan Ive, primary design officeholder at Apple.Anna Wintour, Idris Elba, Taylor Swift and Apple's chief design officer,Jonathan Ive, will be co-chairing the Met's opening gala on 2 May 2016.

image courtesy of Met Museum shop.

This fash-tech works of the exhibition are as well collected in a book called 'Manus ten Machina: Fashion in an Historic period of Applied science' which is now set up to buy from Met'south store. The stunning images of garments likewise as close-up technical details by celebrated photographer Nicholas Alan Cope, the volume traces the evolution of design from the founding of the haute couture through the onset of industrialization and mass production to the high-tech advancements of today.

Hussein Chalayan (British, born Cyprus, 1970). "Kaikoku" floating clothes, autumn/winter 2011–12. Courtesy of Swarovski. image © Nicholas Alan Cope.

Iris van Herpen (Dutch, built-in 1984). Dress, spring/summer 2012 haute couture. Courtesy of Iris van Herpen. paradigm © Nicholas Alan Cope.

Karl Lagerfeld (French, born Hamburg, 1938) for House of Chanel (French, founded 1913). Wedding ensemble, autumn/wintertime 2005–six haute couture. Courtesy of CHANEL Patrimoine Collection. paradigm © Nicholas Alan Cope.

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