Art & Exhibitions

Following Galliano Fiasco, the Met Goes Pedestrian for Costume Institute Show

The closely watched affair will be titled 'extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday.'

Glenn Martens for Maison Margiela, spring/summer 2027. Photo: Courtesy of GoRunway

by Min Chen Nov 5, 2026

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Two months after dropping John Galliano from its 2027 Costume Institute lineup, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is back with a new theme for its annual exhibition, one that’s a far cry from the British designer’s excesses… and notoriety.

On view from May 9, 2027, “extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday” will celebrate familiar garments and objects, and how designers have transformed the most prosaic materials through imaginative construction and experimentation. The show will reveal “unexpected possibilities within forms and materials we think we already know,” per curator Andrew Bolton .…