Met Gala announces everyday clothing theme for 2027
The exhibition replaces a canceled John Galliano retrospective. The gala is scheduled for May 3, 2027, but its red-carpet dress code remains unannounced.
Everyday clothes will be the focus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute exhibition and Met Gala theme for 2027, according to Vogue. The institute announced the title as “extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday.”
The exhibition will explore designers’ reinterpretations of familiar clothing, including jeans, T-shirts, raincoats, sweatshirts and puffer jackets. Vogue reported that it will also examine the use of materials such as plastic, paper and aluminum to create wearable art.
The new program follows the museum’s cancellation in August of “John Galliano: Horizons.” Plans for that retrospective had drawn criticism over Galliano’s antisemitic and racist remarks, including incidents that resulted in his 2011 hate-crime conviction in France.
Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton told Vogue that his team had no alternative exhibition ready. He said he wanted the replacement to have contemporary relevance and an identity of its own, rather than be an easier project assembled as a substitute.
The Met Gala is scheduled for May 3, 2027. The exhibition will open May 9 and continue through January 9, 2028. Organizers have not yet announced the official dress code for the red carpet.
