The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced “extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday” as the Costume Institute's spring 2027 exhibition. The exhibition will be on view May 9, 2027, through January 9, 2028, at the Met Fifth Avenue. The accompanying Met Gala fundraiser will take place Monday, May 3, 2027.
This theme replaces the previous, now-canceled exhibition “John Galliano: Horizons,” a planned retrospective that would have made Galliano the third living designer honored by the Costume Institute. The Met and Galliano jointly called off that show on August 31st, after weeks of criticism over Galliano's 2011 antisemitic and racist remarks, which had gotten him fined and fired from Dior.
“extraORDINARY,” with its deliberately modest theme of jeans, T-shirts, and everyday materials, is a conspicuously low-key follow-up to a controversy that had centered on Galliano’s penchant for excesses.
Drawing on the Costume Institute's collection alongside loans and new acquisitions, the show examines how designers rework familiar garments and ordinary materials— such as jeans, T-shirts, puffer coats, paper, plastic, metal—through craft, construction, and conceptual wit, while their earlier functions and histories remain embedded in what the new designs mean.
“Fashion offers an immediate and compelling way to look at the world,” said Max Hollein, director and CEO of the museum. “By bringing together works that begin with the clothes, objects, and materials of daily life, extraORDINARY invites visitors to discover the creativity and ingenuity in things they encounter every day.”
Andrew Bolton, the Costume Institute's curator in charge, framed the show as a meditation on familiarity itself. “A pair of jeans, a white shirt, or a sweatshirt can hold traces of a life—the habits, memories, and attachments that make something our own. Designers work with that familiarity, revealing unexpected possibilities within forms and materials we think we already know," he said. Bolton has also described the show as a follow-up to this year's “Costume Art,” telling the New York Times that "each focuses on how clothes are worn."
The exhibition, expected to bring together some 200 to 230 pieces including loans and pieces from the Costume Institute's archive, opens with garments from Jun Takahashi's fall/winter 2024–25 Undercover collection “Watching a Working Woman,” inspired partly by Wim Wenders's 2023 film Perfect Days.
Two central sections follow. The first, “Familiar Forms,” groups archetypal garments—puffer coats, jeans, flannel shirts, and biker jackets—to trace how shifts in scale and material unsettle their recognizability. The second, “Common Matter,” is organized around paper, plastic, and metal, featuring works including a 1992 Rei Kawakubo dress for Comme des Garçons and a Helmut Lang jacket. The show closes with selections from Kunihiko Morinaga's Anrealage collections spanning 2009 to 2021, in which garments built around cubes, spheres, and pyramids probe how clothing accommodates—or fails to accommodate—the human body.
The exhibition is made possible by Instagram, with major funding from Moncler and additional support from Condé Nast. The Met has not yet announced a dress code for the May 3rd benefit event, but Bolton has suggested it will follow the exhibition's understated register, a departure from the gala's more flamboyant past themes.
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