The Met Gala Swaps Controversy for Jeans and Puffer Coats
After scrapping a John Galliano retrospective over his past racist and antisemitic remarks, the Met's 2027 exhibition goes almost aggressively ordinary, on purpose.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute has its 2027 theme, and it's a deliberate step back from the edge: "extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday," curated by Andrew Bolton, opens to the public May 9, 2027, and runs through January 9, 2028, with the Met Gala itself landing Monday, May 3, 2027.
The show is split into two sections. "Familiar Forms" reworks wardrobe staples everyone already owns, Matthieu Blazy's trompe l'oeil leather jeans for Bottega Veneta, Pierpaolo Piccioli's puffer coats for Moncler, Jonathan Anderson's reworked outerwear. "Common Matter" turns unconventional materials, paper, plastic, metal, and found objects, into clothing. Met director Max Hollein said fashion "offers an immediate and compelling way to look at the world," which is doing a lot of work to describe an exhibit about jeans and T-shirts.
The theme replaces "John Galliano: Horizons," which the Met and Galliano jointly scrapped on August 31 after backlash resurfaced his 2010 and 2011 antisemitic, racist, and anti-Asian remarks. Instagram returns as presenting sponsor, with Moncler providing major funding and Condé Nast backing the show. No co-chairs or dress code have been announced yet, but the Met has already made its statement: after a canceled exhibit and months of bad headlines, "boring" is the safest brand move on the table.
Source: Artsy
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