Don't Miss the Last Week of One of the Met's Most Popular Exhibitions

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The Met has given you a few more days if you missed out on the Costume Institute spring 2016 exhibition "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology," before it comes to a close Sept. 5. This exhibition is targeted at fashion lovers who are interested in the connectivity between fashion and technology.

The Met extended the exhibition's end date by three weeks from Aug. 14 to Sept. 5. Now, The Met announced extended hours for the final weekend of the popular exhibition, which has had over 660,000 visitors since its May opening. It surpassed the attendance for 2011's Alexander McQueen exhibition to become the second-most attended exhibit in the museum's history.

The Museum usually closes at 9 p.m., but on Friday, Sept. 2 and Saturday, Sept. 3, the exhibition will remain open until midnight. The Museum’s Great Hall Balcony Bar will be open until midnight with full bar service, appetizers, and music for guests at the "Manus x Machina" exhibition.

"Manus x. Machina," manus meaning hand and machina meaning machine, displays more than 170 examples of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear from the early 1900s to the present. The exhibition focuses on the relationship between the hand and the machine at the beginning of industrialization and mass production.

The first floor of the exhibition is transformed into a series of alcoves that examine the petites mains (meaning "tiny hands") workshops of embroidery, feather work and artificial flowers. The ground floor examines pleating, lacework and leatherwork and rooms dedicated to tailoring and dressmaking. Innovative technology displays like 3-D printing, computer modeling, bonding and laminating, laser cutting and ultrasonic welding are also showcased.

Not-to-miss outfits include a 2014 haute couture wedding dress by Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel, an Yves Saint Laurent 1969 haute couture evening dress made of silk and bird-of-paradise feathers, a 1994 Issey Miyake "Flying Saucer" dress and Hussein Chalayan's 2011 "Kaikoku" floating dress.

Other designers in the exhibition include Cristobal Balenciaga, Pierre Cardin, Christian Dior, Mariano Fortuny, Marc Jacobs among many others.

Photo courtesy of Shinya Suzuki via Flickr.