The Horizons We Choose to Forget: What the 2027 Met Gala Says About Fashion’s Selective Memory

Every spring, the Met Gala theme tells us something even before a single celebrity walks across the carpet, before the camera flashes and before we see fashion as art. It tells us what fashion wants to talk about, what it wants us to admire, and sometimes… what it hopes we’ve forgotten. This year, the announcement for the Met Gala’s 2027 theme landed differently. On 31st July, the Costume Institute revealed that its spring 2027 exhibition will be “John Galliano: Horizons,” a full-career retrospective of the British designer whose talent once defined an era of fashion, and unfortunately, whose fall from … Continue reading The Horizons We Choose to Forget: What the 2027 Met Gala Says About Fashion’s Selective Memory