From the overblown to the ordinary? Met Gala 2027 to celebrate ‘poetics of everyday’
Summary
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced “extraORDINARY: fashion and the poetics of the everyday” as the theme for its 2027 Met Gala and exhibition. The exhibition will look at how designers transform familiar clothes and everyday materials, while commentators have expressed both disappointment and interest in the concept.Key Facts
- The 2027 Met Gala is scheduled for 3 May 2027.
- The exhibition theme is “extraORDINARY: fashion and the poetics of the everyday.”
- The museum says the exhibition will explore designers’ use of familiar garments, objects and materials, including jeans, T-shirts, puffer coats, paper, plastic and metal.
- The gala’s dress code has not yet been announced; it traditionally draws on the exhibition theme.
- The announcement came months after a planned John Galliano retrospective was canceled amid backlash focused on the designer’s past.
- Author Dana Thomas criticized the new theme and said an exhibition honoring Dolly Parton and designer Bob Mackie would have been a missed opportunity.
- Stylist Marian Kwei described the theme as a clever and interesting celebration of fashion design.
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