Met sets everyday fashion theme for 2027 exhibition
The Costume Institute’s replacement show will explore how designers rework familiar clothes and ordinary materials, after the museum cancelled an exhibition dedicated to John Galliano.
The Met has announced “extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday” as the theme for its 2027 Costume Institute exhibition and Met Gala. NBC NewsARTnews
The exhibition will look at how designers transform everyday garments and materials, including jeans, T-shirts, paper, plastic and metal. NBC NewsARTnews
The change follows the cancellation of a planned Galliano exhibition after criticism of the designer’s past anti-Jewish and anti-Asian remarks. NBC NewsARTnews