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The Met’s bid to honor John Galliano with a solo Costume Institute exhibition collapsed amid donor backlash and internal opposition, despite Anna Wintour’s high‑level push. Behind‑the‑scenes tension and resistance from influential New Yorkers, including a Holocaust-survivor’s advocate, exposed a power struggle over whether to elevate Galliano given his antisemitic past.
Hadley Freeman argues Galliano’s rehabilitation shouldn’t be conflated with today’s rise in antisemitism, urging fashion to acknowledge the Jewish contributions to couture and telling the broader story of Jewish immigrants who built the industry, including through the Met’s Galliano exhibition.
The Met’s Costume Institute unveils a new 12,000-square-foot space for Costume Art, pairing 200 garments with 200 artworks and organizing them into 13 “body” themes to recast fashion as art and pedestalize diverse bodies—while the Met Gala’s Bezos-backed launch stirs controversy about funding, the exhibition foregrounds the dressed body as a key lens through which fashion and antiquities sit in dialogue.