Preview OMA's Installation for Met Museum Exhibition "Manus x Machin

With the conclusion of this year’s Met Gala , on Thursday the public will have their first look at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ’s new spring show, " Manus x Machina ". 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
owear.”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.