It’s been nearly two months since The Metropolitan Museum of Art canceled the planned “John Galliano: Horizons” Spring 2027 Costume Institute exhibition , which would have spotlighted the controversial designer and his decades-long career. This left everyone wondering how (and if) the museum would choose to replace it. Well, now we know: by doing a complete 180 and spotlighting the ordinary.

The new Spring 2027 Costume Institute exhibit is “extraOrdinary: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday,” the Met announced on Thursday morning. ( The New York Times was the first to break the news.) The exhibit will spotlight everyday items (think: denim, white T-shirts and even paper) but reimagined through a high-fashion lens.

“The Costume Institute’s spring 2027 exhibition will explore how designers transform familiar garments, materials and objects, inviting visitors to see them anew,” per the press release.…