 Hey everybody, this is Kwame with The Verge. And Nicola from Racked. We're here at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to check out the new Fashion Tech exhibit presented by Apple. We're going to be checking out all the beautiful dresses here, how they were made, and how they blend man and machine in their design. Everything in the exhibit details what part was done by machine and what part was done by hand. These striking Issey Miyake pieces were all made with machine pleating. And then to sort of like double impress on you what kind of production goes into this, they have the flat garments across the way, which is just such a cool visual mechanism of being able to see something flat and the way that it comes to life from patterning and from texture imprinted by machines onto the physical form. These are some of my favorite dresses I think. They came from 1990 from the look of it. And he continued this onto his like next dress in 1993. Yeah, Kwame's favorite. My favorite dress of all. Should we go over there? Please, please. The reason why this dress in particular is my favorite, it's called the flying saucer dress and it's so sci-fi. You just see like this rising like strain of color going up from the bottom. It's brilliant. Yeah, again. Oh, this is terrifying. It looks like a rib cage that developed over time for what humans or some animal will become. So this was 3D printed, which is really interesting. Apparently the file took two months to make and it took a full week to print it out. This was done in 2011, so I'm sure. Pretty early in 3D printing fashion. Yeah, I can't really think of anyone else who was 3D printing clothes at that point. I mean, if you want to call this clothes, but still. I mean, it's crazy how far things can go with 3D printing. You can see like the level of detail in it. Just like not only the bones, which is already so macabre, but just like the little bits of what look like white sinew. It's made of white polyamide and it just kind of flows around the skeleton itself. And you can see how one might wear it, but also like it would kind of hurt if you were wearing this. There's an amazing amount of flexibility happening here. Like there's so much curvature. There's so much difference between thick and thin in the same pieces. It definitely looks like extremely delicate to have made. Okay, so this guy is cast fiberglass. This is the dress of the future to me. Yeah, this is the dress of the future even though it was made five years ago. Okay, so this dress comes with a digital handset because each one of these little doodads can be controlled to fly off and swarm around the dress. And the way that you get in and out of it is through motorized hinges. This is crazy. I mean, if you look, you see little Swarovski crystals that look like, I guess, butterflies or I guess flies, I guess. Collins. Ah. Obviously, like we knew Apple wasn't going to have like a... there was going to be no like Apple Watch display because that's not how the sponsorship works for this kind of thing. But there is a distinctly like Apple feel to the actual design, which is cathedral inspired, but like entirely whitewash, very much like objects are on display in the center with very little interruption. And it's really different from what these exhibits usually look like. But it definitely has a very church-like feel to it. If you look up, you see this kind of geodesic dome going on with gold, simple and white, but also the entire enclosure, which is a building within a building. Feels very much like a church. And they custom built the structure inside of here and all the walls are kind of like this sheer material so you can see what's essentially the boning of this building, which also kind of plays back to that like seeing the production process, like even within the way the show is designed, which is really cool. The exhibit opens to the public this week. As someone who's interested in fashion, it's obviously a lot to look at. It's really beautiful and there's a lot to learn. And as someone who loves tech, it's really interesting to see how things are produced and all the design that goes into it. You can come check out the visit at the Met, open through August 14th. So normally we do this bit inside, but they asked us to stop filming. But anyway, if you want to see more videos like this, check out theverge.com or subscribe to youtube.com. For a full review of the exhibit as well as way more fashion news, check out Rack.com.