The Met Gala’s Backup Theme Will Be Jeans And T-shirts
For those double-booked on May 3 with dive bar trivia and the Met Gala, you can probably swing both. Following backlash to its original theme, the Met announced its backup plan for the 2027 gala: “extraOrdinary: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday.” The event will celebrate jeans, tees, puffer coats, and boring materials turned into nontraditional pieces.
As if this could sound any more Plan B. Which Costume Institute lead curator Andrew Bolton said he didn’t have. The initial theme, announced in July, was set to honor the British designer John Galliano. But it was canceled just a month later, after donors and the public pushed back, resurfacing Galliano’s antisemitic and racist rants from 2010 and 2011.
- Galliano had apologized, but he and the Met announced on Aug. 31 that the exhibit would be binned.
- His exhibit would have been just the third time that a living designer was honored.
Will it be a night of Levi’s? Maybe. Bolton said he hoped folks would wear their own jeans and t-shirts, but that “the ordinary is never quite as simple as it seems.” The event will likely look somewhere between Pierpaolo Piccioli’s puffer coat ball gowns and a 2015 frat’s ABC party.—MM
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