Met Sets 2027 Gala Theme on Everyday Fashion

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that its 2027 Costume Institute exhibition and Met Gala will focus on everyday fashion, replacing a planned exhibition about designer John Galliano that was canceled in August. The exhibition is titled “extraORDINARY Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday.” The show will examine how designers reinterpret familiar clothing, including jeans, T-shirts and coats, and how materials such as paper, aluminum and plastic can be transformed into wearable art. The museum also says it will consider how clothing gains meaning through use and care. The Met Gala is scheduled for May 3, 2027. The exhibition is due to open to the public on May 9 and run through January 9, 2028. The dress code and hosts for the gala have not been announced. Andrew Bolton, the Costume Institute’s curator in charge, told Vogue that he did not have a backup theme ready after the Galliano exhibition was dropped. He said he wanted the replacement to be challenging and contemporary, rather than a substitute centered on another single designer. The planned Galliano exhibition was announced in July and withdrawn on August 31 after renewed scrutiny of the designer’s record of...