After John Galliano’s Cancelled Show, The Met Turns to Jeans, T-shirts and Puffer Coats for 2027

(From Left) Glenn Martens for Maison Margiela, Jonathan Anderson for Loewe, and Jun Takahashi for Undercover. (Photo: GoRunway via AP)

Months after John Galliano’s exit, The Met has a new theme for the 2027 Costume Institute exhibition. The museum has announced extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday, which opens at The Met Fifth Avenue on May 9, 2027, and runs through January 9, 2028.

The show draws on The Costume Institute’s own collection, along with key loans and new acquisitions. It looks at how designers rework familiar garments, everyday objects and commonplace materials through craft, construction, material experimentation and conceptual wit. According to the museum, the earlier functions, histories and associations of these things stay part of the new designs and give them their meaning.

The subject matter ranges from jeans, T-shirts and puffer coats to paper, plastic and metal. The exhibition studies how design uncovers unexpected possibilities in ordinary things, and how wearing, styling and caring for them shapes what they mean over time.

The Costume Institute Benefit, better known as the Met Gala, will be held on Monday, May 3, 2027. Further details on the event will be announced at a later date. The Gala is…

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