May 5 - August 14, 2016 - The Costume Institute's spring 2016 exhibition explores how fashion designers are reconciling the handmade and the machine-made in the creation of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear.
With more than 170 ensembles dating from the early 20th century to the present, the exhibition addresses the founding of the haute couture in the 19th century, when the sewing machine was invented, and the emergence of a distinction between the hand (manus) and the machine at the onset of mass production. It explores this ongoing dichotomy, in which hand and machine are presented as discordant tools in the creative process, and questions the relationship and distinction between haute couture and ready-to-wear.
Dates:May 05, 2016 10:00 am to August 14, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10028, United States
Phone:212-535-7710
Contact:The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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