John Galliano’s Met Gala exhibition was cancelled, but his influence on fashion can’t be erased

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s planned 2027 Costume Institute exhibition, John Galliano: Horizons, has been cancelled, following Galliano’s statement that “it is best for the exhibition not to take place at this time”. The exhibition was intended to provide a retrospective of the British designer’s highly influential, four-decade career. But Galliano, and the museum, faced intense opposition centred on whether the Met should devote a retrospective to a designer whose legacy is closely…