Met Trustees Weigh 1-Week Met Gala Delay as Galliano Show Collides With May 3 Holocaust Remembrance
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Updated · style.news.am · Aug 31
Met Trustees Weigh 1-Week Met Gala Delay as Galliano Show Collides With May 3 Holocaust Remembrance
3 articles · Updated · style.news.am · Aug 31
Summary
Met trustees and board members are discussing pushing the 2027 Met Gala about a week later from May 3, after the planned date was found to coincide with Yom HaShoah.
The scheduling debate has intensified a broader backlash over the museum’s decision to center its next major fashion exhibition on John Galliano, who was convicted in France in 2011 over antisemitic remarks.
New York Jewish leaders and donors have escalated pressure: City Council Speaker Julie Menin called the tribute “a serious mistake,” while some patrons threatened to pull funding or reconsider pledged works.
Max Hollein said the Met is consulting Jewish community members and developing a plan consistent with its ethical standards, though Vogue still lists May 3 and Anna Wintour has not commented publicly.
A postponement would mark the first concrete fallout from the controversy, which has turned a marquee fashion event into a reputational test for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.