Met Gala 2027 to celebrate everyday fashion with 'extraORDINARY' exhibition
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New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that the 2027 Met Gala will focus on everyday clothes and materials, from jeans to plastic and paper. The Costume Institute exhibition is called 'extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday'.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced on Thursday that the 2027 Met Gala will celebrate everyday fashion. Its next Costume Institute exhibition is titled 'extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday'.
Opening next spring, the show will look at how designers turn familiar clothes, objects and ordinary materials into unexpected creations through craftsmanship, construction and experimentation. Jeans, T-shirts, puffer jackets, denim, metal, paper and plastic will feature. Visitors are invited to see everyday objects differently, as designers give them new forms and meanings while keeping their original associations.
The exhibition will combine pieces from the Costume Institute's own collection with loans and new acquisitions.
The theme marks a dramatic change of direction for the museum. It had planned an exhibition devoted to British designer John Galliano, but cancelled it after fierce criticism from donors and Jewish community leaders. They objected to Galliano's involvement because of his past anti-Semitic and racist remarks, for which he has repeatedly apologised. Andrew Bolton, head curator of the Costume Institute, said the replacement exhibition had to be developed from scratch.
The Met Gala is one of fashion's biggest annual events and raises funds for the Costume Institute. It traditionally takes place on the first Monday in May. Designers, celebrities, actors and musicians attend in elaborate outfits inspired by the exhibition's theme.
