Met Gala Exhibit Will Examine Everyday Items of Clothing, Replacing Scuttled Galliano Show – WTOP News
- On Thursday, the Metropolitan Museum announced its spring 2027 Costume Institute exhibition, "extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday," celebrating familiar garments and commonplace materials rendered remarkable through designer intervention.
- The new theme replaces a retrospective for British designer John Galliano, which the museum scrapped after public outcry regarding his past antisemitic and racist statements.
- Curator Andrew Bolton described the challenge of creating a new concept from scratch, saying, "It will make us question: what do we overlook, what do we discard, what makes something worth keeping?"
- Following the Met Gala on May 3, the exhibition opens to the public on May 9 and remains on view through January 9, 2028.
- Conceptualized by London-based design studio 1009, the exhibition will be sponsored by Instagram and Moncler, examining how fashion designers transform humble materials into wearable art.
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The exhibition will focus on everyday clothes, with “cowboys, T-shirts, padded coats, paper, plastic and metal” as protagonists. The gala will be held on Monday, May 3
The new Met Gala theme is... blue jeans and puffer coats. How embarrassing
After the Met Gala pulled its John Galliano-themed event and exhibit due to backlash over his history of antisemitic and racist remarks, the Costume Institute had to go back to the drawing board. The replacement theme — based on the mundane items we all own — has just been announced, and its as boring as it gets, writes Ellie Muir
Met Gala Announces Unconventional New 2027 Theme After Canceling Controversial John Galliano Tribute
The 2027 Met Gala is embracing a brand-new, unconventional theme following controversy surrounding its original plan to honor designer John Galliano. The Metropolitan Museum of Art revealed on Thursday, November 5, that “extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday” will be curated by Andrew Bolton alongside Stephanie Kramer and Emily Mushaben. The theme asks […]
Met Gala 2027 Reveals New Theme After John Galliano Exhibit Scrapped
Met Gala 2027 finally has a new direction. The Costume Institute has unveiled “extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday” after scrapping its planned John Galliano retrospective. The new concept shifts the focus from one designer to the clothes people encounter every day. It also ends months of uncertainty over what would replace the […]
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