Revealed: Rei Kawakubo /Comme des Garçons is the subject of the 2017 Met Gala

On Friday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art revealed the new subject for its 2017 Costume Institute exhibition and gala: “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons.” As an exception, this is the first time the Gala has chosen to focus on a living designer since Yves Saint Laurent in 1983.

Apple officially enters the world of Fashion with its first Met Gala

For its upcoming Spring Exhibition in the month of May, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York will re-examine the relationship between fashion and technology and how the industry has embraced the idea of reconciling the handmade and the machine-made in the creation of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear. The annual event will explore spectrum of practices whereby the hand and the machine are mutual protagonists in solving design problems.