Beyoncé walks down the Met Gala staircase in a voluminous grey fur-like train
Beyoncé celebrates ‘costume art’ at the 2026 Met Gala in New York. Photograph: Dia Dipasupil/MG26/Getty for the Met Museum/Vogue
Beyoncé celebrates ‘costume art’ at the 2026 Met Gala in New York. Photograph: Dia Dipasupil/MG26/Getty for the Met Museum/Vogue
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 with jeans and a nice top.