Who Cares About the Exhibition Behind the Met Gala?

When the annual parade of celebrities ascends the steps at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday night to mark the opening of “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” guests will have no indication that the elaborate exhibition they are about to see is a last-minute backup plan. As recently as summer 2023, head curator Andrew Bolton and his patron, Vogue’s Anna Wintour, intended instead to stage a show dedicated to the work of one of their favorite designers — John Galliano. His career is still marked by a series of drunken antisemitic tirades that led Dior to fire him in 2011. In the years since, with Wintour’s unyielding support, he has sought public forgiveness and returned to fashion, now designing for Maison Margiela. A monographic exhibition at the Met could have been the culmination of a comeback.

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