manus x machina

At the new Costume Institute exhibition, curator Andrew Bolton maps out a beautiful vision of fashion’s future.

At this year's Met Gala, the technology theme was approached in every way Instagrammable. But the brightest visions of the future weren't always the ones covered in LEDs.

From the space age 60s to a spray paint robot ballet, here’s how a few of fashion’s visionaries interacted with tech of their own time and imagined a brave, new, binary-coded world.

The hand faces off against the machine ahead of this year's Met Gala.

The 2016 theme is “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology.”