Tonight’s Met Gala will have a lot of eye-catching dresses on the red carpet. But will any of them live up to those on display as part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new Costume Institute exhibition, Manus x Machina?
Curated by Andrew Bolton and sponsored by Apple, the exhibition opens tonight in the museum’s Robert Lehman Wing and explores how fashion designers are juxtaposing the handmade and the machine-made in the creation of haute couture and avant garde ready-to-wear designs. Featuring more than 150 ensembles dating from the early 20th century to the present day, it’s giving us serious style envy.
It’s all in the detail
Showstopper!
Sparkling florals
Classic cut with intricate details.
Sequins
It’s Yves Saint Laurent from 1983, FYI.
Flower power
The perfect summer frock, no?
Artificial flowers
Sooo sweet.
Metallic flowers
Strategically placed buds.
French haute couture at its finest
Christian Dior, spring/summer 1952.
Bridal wear, circa 1938
Lagerfeld puts all other bridal wear to shame with an out-of-this-world wedding dress.
Floating dress
Hussein Chalayan’s “Kaikoku” floating dress.
Fabulous featherwork
The candy floss effect.
Day dress goals
We want.
It could only be Kane
Christopher Kane, 2014.
Ticks all the right boxes
We could totally see this on the red carpet.
Sequin swing dress
It’s A-line perfection.
The mermaid effect
Oh, so sleek and slinky.
Heavenly
This screams, “Beyoncé.”
Floral three-piece
Festival chic — if you’re brave enough.
If Cinderella were a mermaid
All of the texture.
Epitome of elegance
Even fish scales can look sexy.
Structure and style
Rihanna would rock this look.
LBD heaven
Little — and long — black dresses.
Flying saucers
Issey Miyake’s “Flying Saucer” dress, spring/summer 1994.
Peachy
One color, two very different styles.
Taking a collar to a new level
Make room for this one.
Sweetest stripes
Raf Simons, spring/summer 2015.
Making shapes
Loving this texture.
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