The Met’s Costume Institute reveals new exhibit after axing controversial Galliano show
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The new exhibit will celebrate the way everyday items, from puffer coats to bits of paper, can “carry extraordinary amounts of meaning” through fashion.
A new theme for next year’s Met Gala exhibit was announced Thursday, two months after event organizers scrapped their original idea to honor British designer John Galliano following backlash over his past anti-Jewish and anti-Asian remarks.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, which hosts the annual star-studded event commonly known as fashion’s biggest night, said the replacement exhibit will examine how fashion designers transform conventional objects and everyday clothing to create new garments.
“From jeans, T-shirts, and puffer coats to paper, plastic, and metal, the exhibition will reveal how the seemingly unremarkable can inspire delight, surprise, and wonder,” the museum said in a news release Thursday. “The exhibition will examine how craft, construction, material experimentation, and conceptual wit give these ordinary forms extraordinary possibilities.”
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