The Met’s Galliano show is already controversial. Can it be done right? | CNN

EDITOR’S NOTE: Following a growing outcry, the Costume Institute’s exhibition on John Galliano was canceled on August 31, in statements released by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the designer. The museum said information on a new spring exhibition and the 2027 Met Gala is forthcoming. “I love Hitler,” the designer John Galliano said to a woman across from him at a Paris bar. “People like you would be dead today.” That was in 2010. Galliano was a legend at the time, the British genius who had helped reinvent Givenchy and Dior. When the video of his antisemitic tirade emerged in 2011, it triggered his firing from Dior, a criminal conviction, and several years of exile from the fashion world. Not too many years of exile, though. In 2014, Maison Margiela hired Galliano as its creative director, and he resumed sending out astonishing clothing, while minding his manners. And now, a decade and a half after his downfall and disgrace, Galliano is set to be the focus of a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His four-decade career will be the focus of the Costume Institute’s next spring show, the annual exhibition that opens with the glitzy Met G

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