Metropolitan Museum and designer John Galliano cancel planned Costume Institute exhibition amid backlash

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and British fashion designer John Galliano canceled a planned Costume Institute exhibition honoring Galliano after backlash over his past antisemitic remarks. Met director and CEO Max Hollein announced on Monday, 31 August, that the museum and Galliano jointly decided not to proceed; the show had been announced on 31 July and was slated to open in early May 2027 to coincide with the Met Gala, running until January 2028 in the new Condé Nast Galleries. The Costume Institute said it holds the world’s largest collection of Galliano’s work, spanning 1984–2024. Opposition centered on Galliano’s 2011 conviction by a French tribunal for an antisemitic hate crime and video footage in which he said “I love Hitler,” after which he was fired as Dior’s creative director (a role he held from 1997) before later leading Maison Margiela from 2014 to 2024.

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