Met Gala Drops 'extraORDINARY' New Theme After Scrapping Ode To Controversial Designer

LOADINGERROR LOADINGNEW YORK (AP) — And now, Take 2: The new Met Gala exhibit will celebrate everyday garments and materials like jeans and puffer jackets, paper and plastic — and how fashion designers transform them.The new theme announced Thursday sounds about as far as can be imagined from the glittering, elaborate designs of John Galliano, the British designer originally slated to be the subject of the Met’s fashion exhibit next spring — before that idea was scuttled amid an outcry over past antisemitic statements.Advertisement The replacement show at the Met’s Costume Institute, “extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday,” will be launched by the 2027 Met Gala, held traditionally on the first Monday in May.Using items in the museum’s collection, as well as loans and acquisitions, the exhibit aims to explore “how designers rework familiar garments, everyday objects, and commonplace materials through craft, construction, material experimentation, and conceptual wit,” the museum says.When the original exhibit was canceled, there was ‘no Plan B’It is being assembled, as always, by the institute’s head curator, Andrew Bolton.

The idea had to come together quickly once the museum, along with Galliano himself, decided to cancel the scandal-plagued retrospective under pressure from donors, city officials and the Jewish community.John Galliano and Kim Kardashian attend The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6.Cindy Ord/MG24 via Getty ImagesAdvertisement In an interview this week, Bolton described the challenge of coming up with a new idea from scratch after the cancellation of the Galliano show.The institute had already been collecting Galliano designs for the original show, which had been announced with fanfare in late July.

The museum had promised to confront the British designer’s “derogatory conduct that fundamenta...