After scrapping its John Galliano show, the Met picks 'extraORDINARY,' a show about jeans, T-shirts and paper, for the 2027 Met Gala
NBC has the Met's own description and curator Andrew Bolton's 'no Plan B' quote; ARTnews explains why the Galliano exhibition collapsed.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced on Thursday, Nov. 5, that its next Costume Institute exhibition, the theme that usually sets the Met Gala dress code, will be "extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday." The museum says it will show how designers transform "jeans, T-shirts, and puffer coats" and materials like paper, plastic and metal. Per The New York Times, as cited by ARTnews, it will hold 200 to 230 objects, about a third from the museum's collection, including Brooke Shields' Calvin Klein jeans and Matthieu Blazy's trompe l'oeil jeans for Bottega Veneta.
The theme replaces a planned John Galliano exhibition that the Met cancelled about two months earlier after backlash over the designer's 2011 antisemitic and anti-Asian remarks, NBC reports. ARTnews notes donor discontent and that next year's gala falls on Yom HaShoah. Curator Andrew Bolton told the AP, "I had no Plan B, to be honest." The Times reported that Anna Wintour played no role in choosing the new theme, according to ARTnews.
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Expect months of celebrity and brand speculation about the dress code, much of it from people dressed by the brands. What holds up: a curated museum show built largely from the Met's own collection, about how designers rework everyday clothes. Worth a visit for the craft, not the gala photos.
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