The Met’s Next Fashion Exhibit Spotlights John Galliano, and Will Confront His Troubled Past
Andrew Bolton said the show will draw on the Met’s holdings and revisit Galliano’s career, downfall and reinvention through fashion.
- On Friday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced British designer John Galliano as the subject of its landmark spring 2027 Costume Institute exhibition, 'John Galliano: Horizons,' running May 9, 2027, through January 9, 2028.
- The exhibition's opening section, 'Bearings,' directly addresses the antisemitic, racist, and anti-Asian conduct in 2010 and 2011 that led to Galliano's dismissal from Christian Dior and his conviction by a Paris court for public insults.
- Curator Andrew Bolton organized the show into three thematic sections—'Bearings,' 'Horizons,' and 'Atlas of Transformation'—featuring archival sketches, toiles, and garments spanning Galliano's career from his 1984 graduate collection through Maison Margiela.
- Museum leadership held several closed-door meetings with Jewish leaders over the past year to discuss the exhibition's approach, emphasizing that the show will balance Galliano's artistic achievements with ethical accountability.
- Galliano becomes only the third living designer to receive a solo exhibition at the Met, with the show serving as the centerpiece for the annual Met Gala in May 2027.
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There are few people capable of resurrecting a career that seemed buried forever. Anna Wintour has just shown that John Galliano is one of them. Fifteen years after leading one of the biggest scandals in fashion history, the designer will be the great protagonist of the upcoming exhibition of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of New York. A movement that not only supposes its definitive rehabilitation within the industry, but conf…
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