Met Gala Announces 'extraORDINARY' New Theme After Scrapping Ode To Controversial Designer

HuffPost · AP · 2026-11-05 16:29 UTC

The new exhibit seems worlds away from the clothes of John Galliano, whose work was originally set to be the focus on the 2027 show.

NEW YORK (AP) — And now, Take 2: The new Met Gala exhibit will celebrate everyday garments and materials like jeans and puffer jackets, paper and plastic — and how fashion designers transform them.

The new theme announced Thursday sounds about as far as can be imagined from the glittering, elaborate designs of John Galliano, the British designer originally slated to be the subject of the Met’s fashion exhibit next spring — before that idea was scuttled amid an outcry over past antisemitic statements.

The replacement show at the Met’s Costume Institute, “extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday,” will be launched by the 2027 Met Gala, held traditionally on the first Monday in May. Using items in the museum’s collection, as well as loans and acquisitions, the exhibit aims to explore “how designers rework familiar garments, everyday objects, and commonplace materials through craft, construction, material experimentation, and conceptual wit,” the museum says.

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