Im a Jewish fashion editor. Gallianos Met Gala should happen even though its hard.

It’s hard to light a dress on fire without triggering fire alarms, but I did it in 2011.First I knocked down the smoke detector in my tiny apartment with a Swiffer.Then I doused the dress — a Christian Dior cotton mini by John Galliano that I’d scrounged for $65 at Goodwill — with lighter fluid in my bathtub.

Then I wept.I was burning the dress because I’d been a sucker. Like everyone else who worked in fashion, I believed John Galliano was the GOAT — the Jalen Brunson of runway shows.He turned clothes into art and his pieces fit every body, even the not-so-skinny ones, with astonishing precision. Fashion people worshipped him the way ESPN worshipped Tom Brady.But the reverence stopped in February 2011, when Galliano was filmed making deranged racist comments about a “f***ing Asian bastard” and a “f***ing ugly Jewish bitch” in a Parisian cafe. The designer was seethingly precise about his admiration for Hitler’s killing machine, and for the way my lost relatives were thrown into furnaces, some while still alive.After all, I am proudly one of those “f***ing ugly Jewish bitches.” That’s why I raged when news broke on Friday evening — just before Shabbat, in fact — that John Galliano, now 65, would be the subject of the upcoming Met Gala exhibition. The most-watched red carpet in the world, the Met Gala pulls in nearly 1.7 billion views online.

It counts up to 1.5 million visitors for every exhibit.And next May, it will elevate Galliano to living god status, at least in the fashion world.This is a man who once proclaimed my whole family — and millions like us — should die. My fashion industry group chat fumed, too.

“Insulting,” wrote a Ralph Lauren VIP who hosted me for Passover.“Bad enough that Fashion Week is already during Rosh Hashana,” added an editor who often comes over for Shabbat.

And the most common sentiment: “Right NOW?”Indeed, the timing of this show is bunk.Antisemitic incidents now make up over 56...