[ot-caption title=”Taylor Swift graces the cover of the May issue of Vogue which highlights the upcoming Met Gala (via Brian Meller, junior)”]

“A robot with a sword,” joked Taylor Swift when she was asked in a recent Vogue interview what she would be wearing to the upcoming Met Gala. While Swift probably will not be walking the red carpet of one of the most famous fashion events of the year while clutching a sword, her answer is in good humor because of this year’s theme: Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology.  Swift herself is guest co-chairing the event with British actor Idris Elba and Apple’s chief design officer, Jonathan Ive.

The Met Gala is an annual fashion event held on the first Monday in May and is centered around the unveiling of a new fashion exhibit in the Met Museum in New York City. Each year, the theme of the exhibit changes and the guests are supposed to adorn outfits that fit the theme. The continual changing of themes ensures that no two Met Galas will ever look the same.

In the promo for the event, Thomas Campbell, the director and CEO of the Met, explained how technology is changing even the high fashion world; he comments that about this year’s event that “often presented as oppositional, this exhibition proposes a new view in which the hand and the machine are mutual and equal protagonists.” Keeping to the theme, guests will be able to play around with 3D print things throughout the night using machines just like the ones in Pine Crest’s iLab.

It is likely that this year’s technology theme will call for many shimmery metallic dresses and futuristic looking shapes on the red carpet. While the theme is up to the guests’ interpretations, Taylor Swift’s May Vogue cover gives the public a look at what the chair of the event and Vogue’s editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, expects to see. Swift’s cover including dresses from Michael Kors and Marc Jacobs are certainly not lacking in sparkle and shine. In addition to the sparkle of these dresses, it would not be surprising if many of the looks integrated technology, such as lights and “shape-shifting” dresses.

No matter what everyone chooses to wear, the Met Gala 2016 is looking to be one that defines the future of the relationship between technology and fashion.
Sources: Vogue.com, TeenVogue.com, Refinery29.com, Harpersbazzar.com