News Brace yourself for A-listers strutting down the red carpet in everyday garb like jeans, T-shirts, and "humble, even 'disposable' materials."

November 5, 2026 — 3 min read

Look from Jun Takahashi for Undercover's fall/winter 2024–25 collection (photo GoRunway, all images courtesy The Met)

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 Everyda y 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…