New York Met Museum of Art explores the deeply intertwined relationship of hand and machine in the evolution of fashion.

The melding of man and machine is something that's defined the proliferation of the fashion industry. A new exhibition to be held at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art is set to explore the perspective of the clothing industry from that point. Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology will attempt to explore the way in which fashion designers are embracing rapid technological advancements to help create avant-garde ready-to-wear pieces together with haute couture clothing.

Viewers will be able to consider traditional methods of composition such as embroidery, featherwork, pleating and lacework, alongside innovative processes like 3-D printing, laser cutting and computer modelling.

Over 120 ensembles, ranging from an1880’s Worth gown, to designs from YSL, Christian Dior, Issey Miyake, Raf Simons, Helmut Lang, (and many others), are to be included in the show.

Fashion and technology are inextricably connected, more so now than ever before. This exhibition proposes a new view in which the hand and the machine, often presented as oppositional, are mutual and equal protagonists - Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute will also hold a preceding gala, co-hosted by Apple’s chief design officer Jonathan Ive, Anna Wintour, Idris Elba and Taylor Swift.