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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.

Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum in Stockholm opened Iconic Collaborations on October 15, bringing together pieces from 30 guest-designer collections created for H&M, starting with Karl Lagerfeld's in 2004 and including Stella McCartney, Maison Martin Margiela, Kenzo and Sonia Rykiel. The museum says it is the first time the collaborations have been shown together. It runs through April 4, 2027. The source is the museum's own exhibition page.

Qatar Museums will show ERDEM: About Time, About Her at M7 in Doha from October 27 to December 26: more than 150 pieces by British-Turkish designer Erdem Moralioglu, including garments, sketches and atelier materials, shown alongside paintings, sculpture and decorative arts from the Museum of Islamic Art. It is curated by Olivier Gabet of the Louvre. "I have always been fascinated by the capacity of clothing to hold the trace of a person, a place or a moment in time," Moralioglu said.

Beyti Beytak (My Home Is Your Home), first shown at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, comes to Doha's Fahad bin Ali Palace from October 26 to May 29, 2027, expanded with a new commission by Iraqi architect Ola Znad and archival research on Doha's urbanization. It brings together more than 40 architects and designers from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, including Raj Rewal, Nayyar Ali Dada, Abeer Seikaly and Minnette de Silva, and reflects on the legacy of Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy.