The Costume Institute's spring 2016 exhibition will explore the impact of new technology on fashion, and how designers are reconciling the handmade and the machine-made in the creation of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear. Often presented as oppositional, the exhibition will propose a new view in which the hand (manus) and the machine (machina) are equal protagonists. With more than one hundred ensembles, dating from an 1880s Worth gown to a 2015 Chanel suit, “Manus x Machina” will look into the founding of the haute couture in the nineteenth century, and the emergence of a distinction between the hand and machine at the onset of industrialization and mass production. It will re-examine the dichotomy in which the hand and the machine are presented as discordant tools in the creative process, and question the significance of the time-honored distinction between haute couture and ready-to-wear.
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