Exclusive | Galliano Met Gala ouster efforts were underway before the initial sick news of his participation, top NYC pol claims

She said Gallia-no.A campaign to get disgraced designer John Galliano ousted from next year’s Met Gala began before the announcement of his controversial participation was ever made, Speaker of the New York City Council Julie Menin exclusively told The Post.

“In late July, The Met reached out to me and said they needed to meet,” said lifelong New Yorker Menin, the daughter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors.The announcement of Galliano as the theme of the 2027 bash — and the subject of a coveted Costume Institute exhibit — had not yet been made.“When they told me they were going to honor John Galliano, my first comment was, ‘That can’t be a final decision.’ I couldn’t believe it.And when they made it clear that they were serious about a John Galliano Met Gala, I said, ‘I strongly disagree with this.

I am letting you know that you are being put on notice.I am going to speak out about this.

I’m going to push you to reverse course.'”To Menin, the idea that New York’s most high-voltage annual social event would honor “a man who said he loved Hitler, that the Jews should be gassed — it’s wholly unacceptable… I told them this was a gut punch to the Jewish community.”Menin immediately embarked on a coordinated outreach campaign connecting with New York-based Jewish advocacy groups, Costume Institute leaders like curator Andrew Bolton, and Vogue’s leadership team — saying she even “met with Anna Wintour” several weeks ago.“It was the position of The Met that they could contextualize the remarks that John Galliano made,” Menin recounted.“But my point was that it is a decision to honor and to celebrate, and that’s really where I had a major issue.”She recalls having a “visceral” reaction in the pit of her stomach when discussing the designer’s documented racism and antisemitism.

“I felt sick to my stomach.”Menin wasn’t the only one angered by the announcement.Prominent cultural philanthropists l...