The Metropolitan Museum of Art has officially announced The Costume Institute’s Spring 2027 exhibition and Met Gala theme: extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday. The exhibition will be on view from May 9, 2027, through January 9, 2028, at The Met Fifth Avenue, following The Met Gala on Monday, May 3, 2027.

Made possible by Instagram, with major funding from Moncler and additional support from Condé Nast and Jordan Roth, the exhibition explores how designers transform familiar garments, everyday objects, and commonplace materials through craft, construction, material experimentation, and conceptual wit.

The Concept: Reimagining the Everyday

From jeans, T-shirts, and puffer coats to paper, plastic, and metal, extraORDINARY examines how design reveals unexpected possibilities within everyday things, and how wearing, styling, and caring for them shapes their significance over time.

“By bringing together works that begin with the clothes, objects, and materials of daily life, extraORDINARY invites visitors to discover the creativity and ingenuity in things they encounter every day. The exhibition reveals the rich relationship between fashion, art, and everyday experience,” said Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French, director and ceo of The Met.

“A pair of jeans, a white shirt, or a sweatshirt can hold traces of a life, the habits, memories, and attachments that make something our own. The exhibition invites us to discover how much imagination the everyday can hold, and how looking again might change what we value and care for,” commented Andrew Bolton, curator in Charge of The Costume Institute.

Exhibition Structure & Highlights

Curated by Andrew Bolton, the presentation brings together works from The Costume Institute’s collection alongside key international loans and new acquisitions across four primary sections.

The exhibition opens with a gallery dedicated to Jun Takahashi’s Autumn/Winter 2024–25 collection for Undercover, inspired by Wim Wenders’s film Perfect Days, which grounds the presentation in the lived experiences and overlapping roles of daily life. From there, two core thematic sections expand on these ideas: Familiar Forms examines how designers reinvent archetypal garments such as jeans, hoodies, biker jackets, trench coats, and puffers, featuring works by Matthieu Blazy for Bottega Veneta, Gianfranco Ferré, Marc Jacobs for Perry Ellis, Junya Watanabe, Jonathan Anderson for Loewe, and Moncler 1 Pierpaolo Piccioli; Common Matter explores clothing constructed from everyday materials like paper, plastic, and metal, as well as repurposed objects such as cutlery, broken china, and buttons, highlighting creations by Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons, Martin Margiela and Glenn Martens for Maison Margiela, Helmut Lang, and Issey Miyake. The exhibition concludes with conceptual designs by Kunihiko Morinaga for Anrealage, whose geometric garments constructed around cubes, spheres, and pyramids challenge standard assumptions about how clothing accommodates the human body.

Connecting with the Audience

The exhibition design by 1009 will bring visitors’ own clothing into visual dialogue with the works on view, recognizing the creativity expressed through everyday wear and styling. Visitors will be invited to reconsider the significance of the clothes in which they arrive, reflecting on what familiar things already mean to them and what renewed attention might lead them to value and care for differently.

extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday
May 9, 2027 - January 9, 2028
Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met Fifth Avenue, New York)