Preview The Met’s “Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology”

​The exhibit is set to open on May 5th

The stakes are high for curator Andrew Bolton of the MET Costume Institute after the insurmountable success of last year’s China: Through The Looking Glass, which broke museum records. But it looks like the 2016 exhibit is already proving to be even bigger and better, with a fashion-forward theme that will depict a 150-costume narrative of the technical creative process, from the early 20th century to date. Manus x Machina will track the development from manmade couture and avant-garde collections into machine made ones, and explore how this dichotomy has riffed fashion’s history.

Click through for a preview of the looks to come, check out more details about the exhibit here.