From Couture to Blue Jeans: The Met Pivots to the Everyday for Spring 2027
Andrew Bolton centers the next Costume Institute exhibition and Gala on ordinary garments following the scrapped Galliano show.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced its spring 2027 Costume Institute exhibition extraOrdinary Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday
Curated by Andrew Bolton the showcase explores how designers elevate everyday staples from denim to bubble wrap
The exhibition will open to the public on May 9 2027 following the annual Met Gala the Monday before
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has officially revealed its Spring 2027 Costume Institute exhibition, “extraOrdinary: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday”, establishing the theme for the upcoming Met Gala. The presentation pivots toward quotidian wardrobe staples and utilitarian resourcefulness following the cancellation of the museum’s planned John Galliano retrospective.
Curated by Andrew Bolton, the exhibition will display between 200 and 230 pieces that investigate how high fashion reinterprets mundane items, spanning blue jeans, plain white T-shirts, and puffer coats to unconventional materials like paper, plastic, and bubble wrap. Archival selections include Charles James’s 1930s couture puffer, Brooke Shields’s Calvin Klein denim, Marc Jacobs’s 1990s Perry Ellis grunge designs, Junya Watanabe’s leather biker silhouettes, and Matthieu Blazy’s trompe l’oeil leather denim for Bottega Veneta.
“I wanted an exhibition that I felt had something new to say, and that I felt was relevant to different conversations,” Bolton shared, highlighting how the curation questions notions of value, consumption, and care. Backed by Instagram, Moncler, and Condé Nast, the show engages the tension between necessity and high-end luxury appropriation.
The “extraOrdinary: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday” exhibition is set to open at The Met on May 9, 2027, preceded by the Met Gala the Monday before.
