The Metropolitan Museum of Art is looking to the everyday wardrobe for its spring 2027 Costume Institute exhibition. The show, extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday, will be the focus of the Met Gala on Monday, 3 May 2027. The exhibition opens to the public on 9 May and runs through 9 January 2028.

Curator Andrew Bolton’s exhibition explores what happens when designers work with shapes and materials people already know. Familiar garments such as T-shirts, jeans and puffer coats will appear alongside designs made with paper, plastic and metal. The Met will draw on its own collection and bring in loans and new acquisitions.

One example Vogue highlighted is a Vetements T-shirt gown from the label’s spring 2024 collection. The Associated Press reported that visitors will also see a Charles James puffer coat from the 1930s and Calvin Klein jeans worn by Brooke Shields in her teenage advertising campaign.

The exhibition follows the cancellation of a planned John Galliano retrospective after criticism of his past antisemitic remarks. The museum said further details about the gala, which raises funds for the Costume Institute, would be announced later. The exhibition title gives a sense of the evening’s theme, while the formal dress code is still to come.