So, will there be latex at this year’s Met Gala?
This is the first question that popped into our minds when we read the newly named theme after John Galliano dropped out of the Met Gala 2027 (see here). Amid the controversy surrounding the fashion designer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art just announced a new theme: “extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday.”
Themed by the Met’s Curators in charge, Andrew Bolton, Stephanie Kramer and Emily Mushaben, Bolton remarked that although he didn’t have a proverbial plan B in place, he wanted the new theme to be “…as challenging and as provocative and as beautiful as a John show would have been.” The hope, as he says of those celebs descending on the Met Gala on May 3rd 2027, is to see attendees at the ‘Oscars of Fashion,’ coming in their most creative tees, jeans, and everyday wear.
This could prove quite a difference to the haute couture we usually see on those famous Met Gala steps. But again we wonder, will we see some latex couture reflecting this just-announced theme change?
We surely don’t need to impress upon you, fellow lovers of latex, alt. fashion fashionistas, cosplayers, fetish wear aficionados, fantasy game and movie lovers, and just all the usual gentle folks we come in contact with (and we know read these blogs), how popular our favorite textile is these days. We surely see latex couture as the “Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday,” but do Bolton, Kramer, and Mushabe consider it to be so?
If our best and brightest will come sporting their T-shirts and jeans, and whatever else, with latex add-ons, accessories, or maybe in actual latex jeans for the Gala, who knows? We can only hope, as we always do, and wait with bated breath for that first Monday in May to see if things blip on our radar as truly extraORDINARY or not.
