From the overblown to the ordinary? Met Gala 2027 to celebrate ‘poetics of everyday’

Event regarded as Oscars of fashion industry replaces John Galliano retrospective with homage to the ‘extra ordinary’ A few months after the planned John Galliano Met Gala retrospective was cancelled amid a backlash focused on the designer’s past, a more commonplace theme has been announced: “ extraORDINARY : fashion and the poetics of the everyday.” It has left some commentators speculating that celebrities might replace the couture “omelette dresses” and four-part red-carpet performances wi