Met Announces 2027 Galliano Costume Institute Retrospective

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that its spring 2027 Costume Institute exhibition will be a major retrospective dedicated to British fashion designer John Galliano. Titled "John Galliano: Horizons," the exhibition will open on May 9, 2027, at The Met Fifth Avenue and run through January 9, 2028. It will celebrate his four-decade career while directly addressing the controversies that led to his dismissal from Christian Dior in 2011.

Galliano becomes only the third living designer to receive a solo exhibition at the museum, following Yves Saint Laurent in 1983 and Rei Kawakubo in 2017. The retrospective will be the first of its kind to examine the full breadth of his work, featuring garments, accessories, sketches, and archival materials from his 1984 Central Saint Martins graduation collection through his tenures at Givenchy, Christian Dior, and Maison Margiela. The exhibition will culminate with his widely praised Spring-Summer 2024 Maison Margiela Artisanal collection, which has been hailed as a defining couture presentation of the decade.

Organizers stated the exhibition will explore the relationship between artistic achievement and ethical accountability, rather...