IndiaAIFounders — Met Gala exhibition honoring John Galliano is cancelled after backlash

Met Gala exhibition honoring John Galliano is cancelled after backlash

August 31, 2026 at 03:00 PM

Fashion designer was convicted of hate crime by French court in 2011 after series of racist and antisemitic remarks

The controversial fashion designer John Galliano announced on Monday that an exhibition honoring his work that New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art had scheduled to open for the upcoming spring’s Met Gala is not going to go forward.

The museum’s decision to honor Galliano, who was convicted of a hate crime by a French court in 2011 after a series of racist and antisemitic remarks, had drawn controversy and backlash.

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