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V Magazine N°148, Editorial "Welcome to planet couture". All, Maison Margiela Artisanal 2024 by John Galliano. Photographer Sølve Sundsbø, Model Amar Akway, styled by Gro Curtis
The Met Announces the Spring 2027 Costume Institute Exhibition, John Galliano: Horizons
This will be the first major museum exhibition devoted to Galliano, one of the most inventive and influential designers of the past four decades The show will be on view at The Met Fifth Avenue from May 9, 2027 through January 9, 2028
July 31, 2026
Exhibition Dates: May 9, 2027–January 9, 2028 Exhibition Location: The Met Fifth Avenue, The Condé M. Nast Galleries, Great Hall Gallery 099, Ground Floor
(New York, July 31, 2026)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today John Galliano: Horizons, the spring 2027 Costume Institute exhibition and the first major museum show to examine the full breadth of his creative output. Comprising garments, accessories, sketches, toiles, research books, and archival materials, the exhibition will reveal how Galliano brings places, histories, artistic traditions, narratives, and identities into unexpected relation and transforms these encounters into imaginative garments.
It will draw extensively from The Costume Institute’s holdings of Galliano’s work—the largest collection of its kind in the world—including examples from his landmark 1984 graduation collection at Central Saint Martins in London, through his formative eponymous collections and appointments at the prominent Paris houses Givenchy and Christian Dior, to his later tenure at Maison Margiela, culminating in his critically acclaimed spring/summer 2024 collection.
Alongside Galliano’s extraordinary creative accomplishments, the exhibition will address the derogatory conduct that fundamentally altered his career and public reception. In doing so, the exhibition will consider how artistic achievement should be understood alongside ethical accountability.
“John Galliano has exerted a profound influence on fashion over the past four decades,” said Max Hollein, The Met’s Marina Kellen French Director and CEO. “His work brings historical inquiry, artistic imagination, theatrical expression, and technical experimentation into dynamic relation. Drawing upon the depth of The Costume Institute’s scholarship and the breadth of The Met’s collections, John Galliano: Horizons will offer an expansive examination of his creative practice while attending closely to the historical, cultural, and ethical circumstances through which his work is understood.”
The exhibition is organized by Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute, a leading authority on contemporary fashion, who has written extensively on Galliano’s career and presented his works in numerous exhibitions over many years. Bolton stated, “Every Galliano collection begins as a journey among things separated by time, place, or medium: portrait and posture, silhouette and story, memory and material. Horizons approaches fashion as a form of cartography, mapping not territories but affinities, tensions, and transformations. It traces how images become ideas, ideas become material, and material becomes emotion. Yet a horizon reveals not only what lies before us, but also where we stand. The exhibition therefore considers both how Galliano has remapped the world through fashion and how his conduct, its consequences, and changing cultural values have reshaped our understanding of his work.”
The exhibition will be organized into three “movements”: “Bearings,” “Horizons,” and “Atlas of Transformation.” The first, “Bearings,” will open with a conceptual chronology connecting Galliano’s career and collections to broader historical and cultural events. It will directly address the rupture caused by his antisemitic, racist, and anti-Asian conduct in 2010 and 2011, which resulted in his dismissal from Christian Dior and his eponymous label and his conviction by a Paris court for public insults based on race, religion, ethnicity, or origin. It will also consider his subsequent treatment for substance addiction and his later public acknowledgment of his actions. Rather than presenting a conventional narrative of disgrace and redemption, the gallery will examine how memory, experience, cultural values, and historical circumstances continually reshape the reception of a designer’s work. It will invite visitors to consider how aesthetic achievement, ethical accountability, and institutional recognition intersect.
Building upon this framework, the second movement, “Horizons,” will map the designer’s recurring sources of inspiration—such as history, geography, art, storytelling, and performance—and unpack how he constructs the imaginative worlds in which meaning emerges not from any single source, but from the relationships among them. Through this lens, Galliano’s collections operate as acts of creative interpretation that expand the possibilities of fashion as a cultural and artistic practice.
The third movement, “Atlas of Transformation,” will trace Galliano’s creative process through his extraordinary research books, sketches, toiles, fittings, and finished garments, illuminating how his imaginative worlds acquire material form. By revealing the evolution from image to object, reference to realization, this gallery will provide insight into the creativity, craftsmanship, experimentation, and technical innovation that underpin his work.
Credits The exhibition is organized by Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge, The Costume Institute, with the assistance of Costume Institute staff Stephanie Kramer, Senior Research Associate; and Emily Mushaben, Research Associate. Exhibition Design by 1009. Related Content An illustrated catalogue written by Bolton will accompany the show. The book will be published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and distributed internationally by Yale University Press.
Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art
John Galliano - Horizons
John Galliano Is the Subject of the Next Costume Institute Show
By Nicole Phelps
July 31, 2026
Announced today, “John Galliano: Horizons,” the spring 2027 exhibition at the Costume Institute, will examine and exalt the work of John Galliano. In the history of The Met, only two other living designers have been the subject of monographs. The first was Yves Saint Laurent in 1983, organized by Diana Vreeland; the second was Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons in 2017.
Galliano has been widely considered one of fashion’s greats since his 1984 Central Saint Martins graduation collection Les Incroyables. An exuberant pastiche of turn-of-the-18th century historical dress with his own New Romantic leanings, it was snapped up in its entirety by the British department store Browns. “Horizons,” which was organized by Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute Andrew Bolton, draws extensively from its own considerable holdings, including pieces from that breakout show. The other garments, accessories, sketches, toiles, research books, and archival materials in the exhibition span his years as a scrappy London upstart and enfant terrible, when he divined sartorial magic from the merest scraps; his formative appointment at Givenchy; his phenomenal success and, later, dramatic downfall at Christian Dior; and his genius reinvention of Maison Margiela, in which, as his successor Glenn Martens has said, “he really turned a designer’s brand into a house,” and, with his final, triumphant Artisanal collection for the label, a viral phenomenon.
“Every Galliano collection begins as a journey among things separated by time, place, or medium: portrait and posture, silhouette and story, memory and material,” Bolton said in a release. “‘Horizons’ approaches fashion as a form of cartography, mapping not territories but affinities, tensions, and transformations. It traces how images become ideas, ideas become material, and material becomes emotion. Yet a horizon reveals not only what lies before us,” Bolton went on, “but also where we stand. The exhibition therefore considers both how Galliano has remapped the world through fashion and how his conduct, its consequences, and changing cultural values have reshaped our understanding of his work.”
Indeed, despite his creative genius, it wasn’t always assured that Galliano would get the Costume Institute treatment. In 2011, he was arrested and subsequently fired from his creative director role at Christian Dior for making antisemitic remarks at a Paris bar. Cast into creative exile, he spent time in rehabilitation, subsequently reemerging at Maison Margiela, where he rebuilt his reputation, collection by collection.
“There is no one more deserving of an exhibition of this scale than John Galliano,” said Anna Wintour, Chief Content Officer, Condé Nast, Global Editorial Director, Vogue. “His body of work—at Dior, Givenchy, Margiela, his namesake label and more—combines erudition and creativity, darkness and light, the past, the present, the future all smashing together in a brilliant way.” Wintour went on: “He’s a great designer and his career isn’t defined by a moment—something that he will live with for the rest of his life. The exhibition won’t shy away from any of the darkness in John’s past. It’s part of what has shaped him. The show will take in the full arc of his career and grapple with all of it.”
The exhibition will crown Galliano’s very big year. In January, at an auction of “Dior Masterpieces” owned by Mouna Al Ayoub that broke records for a couture sale, a painted silk evening gown from Galliano’s “Clochards” or “Homeless” collection of Spring/Summer 2000 went for €510,000, closely followed by a black taffeta evening gown from the same season that went for €420,000.
“John Galliano has exerted a profound influence on fashion over the past four decades,” said Max Hollein, The Met’s Marina Kellen French Director and CEO. But perhaps that influence is just beginning: In September, the master couturier will take his turn as the “people’s designer.” That’s when the first release from his two-year project with the Spanish mass retailer Zara, which he’s dubbed as a “reauthoring” of the mega brand’s archives, will hit stores.
Source: Vogue US
Met-Ausstellung 2027: Das Costume Institute widmet John Galliano seine nächste große Ausstellung
Im Frühjahr 2027 eröffnet das Costume Institute des Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York "John Galliano: Horizons" – eine Retrospektive über das Werk, den Einfluss und die Widersprüche eines der prägendsten Couturiers seiner Generation.
Von Nicole Phelps
Adaptiert von Valerie Specht
03. August 2026
John Galliano: Das Met widmet ihm eine große Retrospektive.
Wie letzte Woche bekannt gegeben wurde, wird die Ausstellung "John Galliano: Horizons" im Frühjahr 2027 im Costume Institute des Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York das Werk von John Galliano beleuchten und würdigen. Das Costume Institute gilt als die weltweit bedeutendste Museumsabteilung für Mode. In der Geschichte des Met waren bisher nur zwei weitere lebende Designer:innen Mittelpunkt von Einzelausstellungen. Der erste war Yves Saint Laurent im Jahr 1983, organisiert von Diana Vreeland; die zweite war Rei Kawakubo von Comme des Garçons im Jahr 2017.
Galliano gilt seit seiner Abschlusskollektion "Les Incroyables" von 1984 am Central Saint Martins weithin als einer der größten Modedesigner:innen seiner Generation. Diese überschwängliche Mischung aus historischen Gewändern der Wende zum 18. Jahrhundert und seinen eigenen "New Romantic"-Einflüssen wurde vollständig vom britischen Kaufhaus Browns aufgekauft. "Horizons", kuratiert von Andrew Bolton, dem leitenden Kurator des Costume Institute, greift umfassend auf die umfangreichen Bestände des Museums zurück, darunter auch Stücke aus jener bahnbrechenden Kollektion. Die übrigen Kleidungsstücke, Accessoires, Skizzen, Toiles, Forschungsbücher und Archivmaterialien der Ausstellung zeichnen Gallianos Weg nach – von seiner Zeit als kämpferischer Londoner Emporkömmling und "Enfant terrible", der aus den bescheidensten Materialien modische Magie schuf, über seine prägende Zeit bei Givenchy und seinen phänomenalen Erfolg sowie späteren dramatischen Niedergang bei Christian Dior bis hin zu seiner gefeierten Neugestaltung von Maison Margiela. Dort verwandelte er, wie sein Nachfolger Glenn Martens sagte, "eine Designermarke wirklich in ein Modehaus" und sorgte mit seiner letzten, triumphalen "Artisanal"-Kollektion für das Label für ein virales Phänomen.
"Jede Galliano-Kollektion beginnt als Reise durch Dinge, die durch Zeit, Ort oder Medium voneinander getrennt sind: Porträt und Haltung, Silhouette und Geschichte, Erinnerung und Material", sagte Bolton in einer Pressemitteilung. "'Horizons' betrachtet Mode als eine Form der Kartografie, die nicht Gebiete, sondern Affinitäten, Spannungen und Transformationen abbildet. Sie zeichnet nach, wie Bilder zu Ideen werden, Ideen zu Material und Material zu Emotionen. Doch ein Horizont offenbart nicht nur, was vor uns liegt", fuhr Bolton fort, "sondern auch, wo wir stehen. Die Ausstellung beleuchtet daher sowohl, wie Galliano die Welt durch Mode neu kartografiert hat, als auch, wie sein Verhalten, dessen Folgen und sich wandelnde kulturelle Werte unser Verständnis seines Werks neu geprägt haben."
Tatsächlich war es trotz seines kreativen Genies lange Zeit nicht sicher, dass Galliano jemals eine Ausstellung im Costume Institute erhalten würde. Im Jahr 2011 wurde er verhaftet und anschließend von seiner Position als Kreativdirektor bei Christian Dior entlassen, nachdem er in einer Pariser Bar antisemitische Äußerungen getätigt hatte. In ein kreatives Exil verbannt, verbrachte er Zeit in einer Entziehungskur und kehrte schließlich bei Maison Margiela zurück, wo er seinen Ruf Kollektion für Kollektion wieder aufbaute.
Dass ihm das Met nun eine Retrospektive widmet, versteht sich daher auch als Zeichen seiner künstlerischen Rehabilitation. "Niemand verdient eine Ausstellung dieser Größenordnung mehr als John Galliano", sagte Anna Wintour, Chief Content Officer bei Condé Nast und globale Chefredakteurin der VOGUE. "Sein Gesamtwerk – bei Dior, Givenchy, Margiela, seinem gleichnamigen Label und darüber hinaus – vereint Gelehrsamkeit und Kreativität, Dunkelheit und Licht sowie Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft, die auf brillante Weise miteinander verschmelzen." Wintour fuhr fort: "Er ist ein außergewöhnlicher Designer, und seine Karriere lässt sich nicht auf einen einzigen Moment reduzieren – auch wenn er mit dessen Folgen für den Rest seines Lebens leben wird. Die Ausstellung wird sich vor den dunklen Kapiteln in Johns Vergangenheit nicht scheuen. Sie sind Teil dessen, was ihn geprägt hat. Sie zeichnet den gesamten Bogen seiner Karriere nach und setzt sich mit all diesen Aspekten auseinander."
Die Ausstellung bildet zugleich den Höhepunkt eines ohnehin außergewöhnlichen Jahres für Galliano. Im Januar erzielte bei einer Auktion von "Dior Masterpieces" aus dem Besitz von Mouna Ayoub, die sämtliche Rekorde für einen Couture-Verkauf brach, ein bemaltes Seidenabendkleid aus Gallianos "Clochards"- beziehungsweise "Homeless"-Kollektion für Frühjahr/Sommer 2000 einen Preis von 510 000 Euro. Dicht dahinter folgte ein schwarzes Taft-Abendkleid aus derselben Kollektion, das für 420 000 Euro versteigert wurde.
"John Galliano hat die Mode in den vergangenen vier Jahrzehnten tiefgreifend geprägt", sagte Max Hollein, French Director und CEO des Met. Und die Geschichte ist noch nicht zu Ende: Im September wird der Meister der Couture seinerseits zum "Designer des Volkes". Dann kommt die erste Kollektion aus seinem zweijährigen Projekt mit dem spanischen Massenmodekonzern Zara in die Läden, das er als "Neugestaltung" der Archive der Megamarke bezeichnet hat.
Quelle: Deutsche Vogue
Stevie Nicks in a custom John Galliano for ZARA creation at the Met Gala 2026. The hat is by Stephen Jones.
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