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Met Gala 2027 Theme Announced as extraORDINARY, a Celebration of the Everyday

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November 8, 2026

The ancient Temple of Dendur inside a glass-walled gallery at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

The Temple of Dendur gallery at The Met Fifth Avenue. Photo via @metmuseum.

The 2027 Met Gala has its theme. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced on Thursday, November 5, that the Costume Institute’s spring 2027 exhibition will be “extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday,” an examination of how designers rework familiar garments, everyday objects and commonplace materials into fashion. The gala takes place on Monday, May 3, 2027, and the exhibition runs from May 9, 2027 to January 9, 2028 at The Met Fifth Avenue.

Curated by Andrew Bolton, the Costume Institute’s curator in charge, the exhibition will bring together some 200 to 230 pieces drawn from the museum’s collection alongside loans and new acquisitions. It is organised around two perspectives: the elevation of archetypal garments such as jeans, T-shirts and puffer coats, and the transformation of humble, even disposable materials, from paper and plastic to metal, into wearable art.

The show opens with garments from Jun Takahashi’s autumn and winter 2024 and 2025 Undercover collection “Watching a Working Woman,” inspired in part by Wim Wenders’ film Perfect Days, and closes with work by Kunihiko Morinaga for Anrealage. The exhibition is made possible by Instagram, with major funding from Moncler and additional support from Condé Nast. The gala’s dress code and co-chairs will be announced at a later date.

Bolton framed the exhibition as a meditation on familiarity itself. “The ordinary is never quite as simple as it appears,” he said. The theme replaces a previously planned exhibition that the museum confirmed in August would not go ahead, and Bolton was candid about the speed of the turnaround, telling Vogue: “I didn’t have a plan B.”

The gala remains the Costume Institute’s main source of funding, paying for its exhibitions, publications, acquisitions and operations. Next May, fashion’s biggest night will make its case from the clothes people wear every day.

Kaia Gerber Stars Alongside Dev Hynes in the JW Anderson and UGG Campaign

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November 8, 2026

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Kaia Gerber standing in a white sleeveless two-piece outfit against a plain backdrop in a studio photo.

Kaia Gerber in a white two-piece outfit in a studio photo. Photo via @kaiagerber.

Kaia Gerber is the face of the new JW Anderson and UGG collaboration, starring in the campaign for the collection alongside musician Dev Hynes. The British fashion house unveiled the imagery this week, and the collection is on sale now in stores and through the JW Anderson webstore.

Photographers Tanya and Zhenya Posternak shot the campaign as a series of intimate domestic vignettes. Gerber and Hynes are pictured across everyday home settings, in visuals built around the boundary between everyday ease and considered dressing, the same meeting point the collection itself is designed to occupy. The imagery explores domestic rituals and everyday dressing, and it reads less like a conventional product advertisement than a study of how the clothes sit inside a real home. The casting pairs one of fashion’s most in demand models with a musician known for crossing between music, art and fashion projects, a combination the house describes through the work itself: two creative figures photographed the way they might actually live in the clothes.

Gerber’s presence gives the collaboration its headline. A runway and campaign regular for the biggest houses in the business, she has become one of the defining models of her generation, and her name on the campaign places the UGG collaboration firmly in luxury fashion territory rather than the footwear aisle alone.

The collection brings JW Anderson’s design language to UGG’s footwear and comfort led staples, translating both brands into a single wardrobe of pieces made to be lived in. The campaign’s domestic setting is the concept made visible: considered design photographed in the middle of ordinary daily rituals, rather than on a runway or in a studio.

The JW Anderson and UGG collection is available now, both in physical stores and online. For Gerber, the campaign is the latest in a steady line of top tier bookings, and for both brands it is a collaboration pitched at the overlap of comfort dressing and high fashion.