NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced The Costume Institute’s spring 2027 exhibition, extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday, on Thursday. The exhibition will be on view from May 9, 2027, through January 9, 2028, at The Met Fifth Avenue.

The Costume Institute Benefit, also known as The Met Gala, will take place on Monday, May 3, 2027. Member previews for the exhibition will take place on May 4, 6, 7, and 8, 2027. The Met Gala is a fundraiser for The Met’s Costume Institute and provides the department with its primary source of annual funding for exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, and operations.

"Fashion offers an immediate and compelling way to look at the world," said Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director and Chief Executive Officer of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "By bringing together works that begin with the clothes, objects, and materials of daily life, extraORDINARY invites visitors to discover the creativity and ingenuity in things they encounter every day."

Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute, organized the exhibition with assistance from Stephanie Kramer, Senior Research Associate, and Emily Mushaben, Research Associate. "The ordinary is never quite as simple as it appears," he said. "A pair of jeans, a white shirt, or a sweatshirt can hold traces of a life—the habits, memories, and attachments that make something our own." Bolton added that designers work with that familiarity, revealing unexpected possibilities within forms and materials people think they already know.

The exhibition will open with a gallery devoted to selected garments from Jun Takahashi’s autumn/winter 2024–25 collection for Undercover, Watching a Working Woman. The collection was inspired in part by Wim Wenders’s 2023 film Perfect Days, for which Wenders wrote and read a poem about the daily life of a working mother for the runway presentation. The show includes two principal sections: “Familiar Forms” and “Common Matter.”

The “Familiar Forms” section examines how designers reinvent archetypal garments, including jeans, T-shirts, hoodies, biker jackets, trench coats, and puffers. Examples include a pair of 2022–23 jeans by Matthieu Blazy for Bottega Veneta, a 2006 shirt by Gianfranco Ferré, a 1993 flannel shirt by Marc Jacobs for Perry Ellis, a 2011–12 biker jacket by Junya Watanabe, a 2022 ensemble by Jonathan Anderson for Loewe, and a 2019–20 ensemble by Moncler 1 Pierpaolo Piccioli.

The “Common Matter” section explores how designers construct clothing from commonplace materials and recognizable objects, focusing on paper, plastic, and metal. Perimeter displays will feature works incorporating objects such as cutlery, broken china, and buttons. Shows include a 1992 dress by Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons, a 1992–93 ensemble by Martin Margiela, a 2003 jacket by Helmut Lang, a 1998–99 ensemble by Issey Miyake, and a 2027 dress by Glenn Martens for Maison Margiela.

The exhibition will close with selected garments from Kunihiko Morinaga’s collections for Anrealage from spring/summer 2009, autumn/winter 2009–10, autumn/winter 2020–21, and spring/summer 2021. The exhibition design is by 1009.

Instagram made the exhibition and Benefit possible. Moncler provided major funding for the exhibition and Benefit, and Condé Nast provided additional support. Jordan Roth made education programs presented in conjunction with the exhibition possible.