Met Gala 2016: A sea of silver, a flock of feathers and a field of flowers

Kim Kardashian West probably spoke for far more of her fellow Met Gala attendees on Monday than would care to admit it when she synopsized the look she was going for to an E! Entertainment reporter as, "Blingy, sexy robot." The theme of this year's gala, and the soon-to-open exhibition it's celebrating, is Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology, and Kardashian West rose to the occasion with a body-hugging Balmain gown, silver in color and intricate of design. Husband Kanye also busted out the Balmain – in the form of a bedazzled-to-encrusted denim jacket worn with a pair of jeans with a gaping hole in the left knee. Others enlisting in the robot chic Balmain army for the evening included Jourdan Dunn, Cindy Crawford and Met Gala first-timer Kylie Jenner. Zayn Malik was one of the few men to do the robot thing, opting for a custom black Versace suit with molded metal arms that could have been borrowed from a suit of armor but for the Swarovski crystal and Versace Medusa head details. And while we're not sure who made the geometric silver patchwork and mirror-covered pantsuit beauty entrepreneur Julie Macklowe wore, it definitely gets our vote for most enthusiastic embrace of the cyber chic aesthetic (and an honorable mention for touching off a flurry of social media posts that paired her picture with C-3PO's).