메트로폴리탄뮤지엄이 2027년 5월 패션디자이너 존 갈리아노의 갈라 및 특별전을 취소했다.

메트가 7월 31일 'John Galliano: Horizons'을 발표한 후 후원자, 정치인, 유대인 지도자들의 비판의 소리가 높아졌기 때문이다. 

 

존 갈리아노는 2011년 크리스찬 디올의 수석 디자이너 시절 자택 인근의 카페에서 "나는 히틀러를 사랑한다" "당신들의 어머니와 조상들" 모두 "가스실에서 죽었을 것"이라는 반유대주의적인 발언으로 2011년 프랑스 법원으로부터 증오범죄 유죄 판결을 받았었다. 

 

거센 반발에 직면한 존 갈리아노는 31일 자신의 인스타그램에 "많은 숙고와 관계자들과의 논의 끝에, 안타깝게도 현 시점에서는 전시를 열지 않는 것이 최선이라는 결정을 내렸다"고 올렸다. 

 

메트뮤지엄과 보그(Vogue) 편집장 안나 윈투어는 갈리아노의 패션 업적을 재조명하려 했으나, 반유대주의 정서가 고조된 시기에 그를 우상화하는 것은 용납할 수 없다는 유대인 사회, 뉴욕시 정치인, 고액 기부자들의 강력한 반발(기부 철회 협박 등)에 부딪혀왔다. 

 

갈리아노는 이브생로랑(1983)과 레이 카와쿠보(꼼므데가르송, 2017)에 이어 메트의 코스튬 인스티튜트에서 단독 전시회를 여는 세 번째 생존 디자이너가 될 예정이었다. 

 

 

존 갈리아노 인스타그램 포스트

"많은 고민을 하고, 메트로폴리탄 미술관 및 관련된 모든 분과 논의한 끝에, 지금 시점에서는 전시를 진행하지 않는 것이 최선이라는 결정을 큰 슬픔과 함께 내리게 되었습니다.

저를 둘러싼 논쟁으로 인해 메트로폴리탄 미술관이 곤란한 처지에 놓이거나, 복식연구소(Costume Institute)의 훌륭한 업적에 누를 끼치고 싶지 않습니다. 또한 제 작품을 기리는 전시가 누군가에게는 고통이 될 수 있다는 점을 인정하고 존중합니다.

저는 과거에 제가 했던 말들이 초래한 고통, 특히 유대인과 아시아인 공동체에 주었던 상처에 대해 여전히 전적으로 책임을 통감하고 있으며, 이에 대해 깊이 사죄드립니다.

진정한 속죄는 단 하나의 전시나 기관의 인정, 혹은 일회성 공개 제스처로 이루어지는 것이 아님을 잘 알고 있습니다. 그것은 시간이 흐르면서 경청하고, 배우고, 행동을 통해 증명해 나가야 하는 지속적인 책임입니다.

지난 15년 동안 알코올 중독 및 약물 중독으로부터 회복하고 단주(Sobriety)의 길을 걸을 수 있도록 저를 이끌고, 지지하고, 동행해 준 모든 분께 깊은 감사를 표하고 싶습니다.

메트로폴리탄 미술관과 맥스(Max), 앤드류(Andrew), 그리고 안나(Anna Wintour)가 보여준 관대함과 인간미, 패션을 예술과 문화, 역사로 바라보는 신념, 그리고 인간의 취약함과 성장 가능성을 이해해 준 것에 대한 저의 고마움은 언제까지나 깊고 지속될 것입니다."

 

Critics Blast Metropolitan Museum’s Plan to Honor John Galliano

Galliano, a fashion industry giant championed by Anna Wintour, was found guilty of a hate crime for his antisemitic outbursts in 2011.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/style/galliano-met-gala-critics.html

 

*Top Image: https://www.tiktok.com/@ellebelgium/video/7670162379795090721

 

 

2027 메트뮤지엄 패션 디자이너 존 갈리아노 회고전 'John Galliano: Horizons'

 

 

The Met Announces the Spring 2027 Costume Institute Exhibition, John Galliano: Horizons

 

This will be the first major museum exhibition devoted to Galliano, one of the most inventive and influential designers of the past four decades

The show will be on view at The Met Fifth Avenue from May 9, 2027 through January 9, 2028

 

(New York, July 31, 2026)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today John Galliano: Horizons, the spring 2027 Costume Institute exhibition and the first major museum show to examine the full breadth of his creative output. Comprising garments, accessories, sketches, toiles, research books, and archival materials, the exhibition will reveal how Galliano brings places, histories, artistic traditions, narratives, and identities into unexpected relation and transforms these encounters into imaginative garments.

 

It will draw extensively from The Costume Institute’s holdings of Galliano’s work—the largest collection of its kind in the world—including examples from his landmark 1984 graduation collection at Central Saint Martins in London, through his formative eponymous collections and appointments at the prominent Paris houses Givenchy and Christian Dior, to his later tenure at Maison Margiela, culminating in his critically acclaimed spring/summer 2024 collection.

 

Alongside Galliano’s extraordinary creative accomplishments, the exhibition will address the derogatory conduct that fundamentally altered his career and public reception. In doing so, the exhibition will consider how artistic achievement should be understood alongside ethical accountability.

 

“John Galliano has exerted a profound influence on fashion over the past four decades,” said Max Hollein, The Met’s Marina Kellen French Director and CEO. “His work brings historical inquiry, artistic imagination, theatrical expression, and technical experimentation into dynamic relation. Drawing upon the depth of The Costume Institute’s scholarship and the breadth of The Met’s collections, John Galliano: Horizons will offer an expansive examination of his creative practice while attending closely to the historical, cultural, and ethical circumstances through which his work is understood.”

 

The exhibition is organized by Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute, a leading authority on contemporary fashion, who has written extensively on Galliano’s career and presented his works in numerous exhibitions over many years. Bolton stated, “Every Galliano collection begins as a journey among things separated by time, place, or medium: portrait and posture, silhouette and story, memory and material. Horizons approaches fashion as a form of cartography, mapping not territories but affinities, tensions, and transformations. It traces how images become ideas, ideas become material, and material becomes emotion. Yet a horizon reveals not only what lies before us, but also where we stand. The exhibition therefore considers both how Galliano has remapped the world through fashion and how his conduct, its consequences, and changing cultural values have reshaped our understanding of his work.”

 

The exhibition will be organized into three “movements”: “Bearings,” “Horizons,” and “Atlas of Transformation.” The first, “Bearings,” will open with a conceptual chronology connecting Galliano’s career and collections to broader historical and cultural events. It will directly address the rupture caused by his antisemitic, racist, and anti-Asian conduct in 2010 and 2011, which resulted in his dismissal from Christian Dior and his eponymous label and his conviction by a Paris court for public insults based on race, religion, ethnicity, or origin. It will also consider his subsequent treatment for substance addiction and his later public acknowledgment of his actions. Rather than presenting a conventional narrative of disgrace and redemption, the gallery will examine how memory, experience, cultural values, and historical circumstances continually reshape the reception of a designer’s work. It will invite visitors to consider how aesthetic achievement, ethical accountability, and institutional recognition intersect.

 

Building upon this framework, the second movement, “Horizons,” will map the designer’s recurring sources of inspiration—such as history, geography, art, storytelling, and performance—and unpack how he constructs the imaginative worlds in which meaning emerges not from any single source, but from the relationships among them. Through this lens, Galliano’s collections operate as acts of creative interpretation that expand the possibilities of fashion as a cultural and artistic practice.

 

The third movement, “Atlas of Transformation,” will trace Galliano’s creative process through his extraordinary research books, sketches, toiles, fittings, and finished garments, illuminating how his imaginative worlds acquire material form. By revealing the evolution from image to object, reference to realization, this gallery will provide insight into the creativity, craftsmanship, experimentation, and technical innovation that underpin his work.

 

Credits

The exhibition is organized by Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge, The Costume Institute, with the assistance of Costume Institute staff Stephanie Kramer, Senior Research Associate; and Emily Mushaben, Research Associate. Exhibition Design by 1009.