The Met is going back to basics for its Spring show and gala
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Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and his wife Nessa Diab, a radio and TV host, at the Met Gala in New York City on May 5, 2025. The Met has announced that the 2027 theme will spotlight everyday dressing.
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Vanessa Friedman and Jacob Bernstein
- The Met will replace its cancelled John Galliano show with extraOrdinary: Fashion And The Poetics Of The Everyday, focused on jeans, T-shirts, puffers and other ordinary items.
- Curator Andrew Bolton said the show will explore value, consumption and resourcefulness, using 200 to 230 pieces from the Met, brands and loans, including Calvin Klein jeans and upcycled fashion.
- The new plan follows backlash over Galliano’s anti-Semitic remarks and donor anger. The Met Gala still opens on May 9, with Instagram, Moncler and Conde Nast as sponsors.
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NEW YORK – Two months after bowing to public pressure and postponing its planned Costume Institute exhibition for 2027, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has a new fashion extravaganza in the works, one that involves going back to basics. Literally.
Rather than staging a couture fantasia dedicated to the wild imaginings of designer John Galliano, the original theme, the institute will devote its next spring exhibition to showcasing the, well, ordinary.