Met Gala's New Theme Is the Biggest Recession Indicator Yet
Brace yourself for A-listers strutting down the red carpet in everyday garb like jeans, T-shirts, and "humble, even 'disposable' materials."
Two months after British fashion designer John Galliano bowed out of his 2027 Met Gala and Costume Institute exhibition due to backlash over his racist past, organizers have decided to play it safe with the new theme announced today, November 5.
In perhaps the biggest recession indicator yet, extraOrdinary: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday will see A-listers and Hollywood's finest strutting down the red carpet in everyday garb like jeans, T-shirts, and "humble, even 'disposable' materials."
When The Met announced the Costume Institute exhibition John Galliano: Horizons in July, intense scrutiny resurfaced around the designer, who was convicted of antisemitic and anti-Asian hate speech directed at a French couple in February 2011, and fined for a torrent of antisemitic slurs against a woman the same year. A separate video of Galliano declaring “I love Hitler” caused Dior to fire the designer from his post as creative director in March 2011. Amid the renewed backlash, Galliano withdrew his exhibition on August 31.
