Anna Wintour Faces Retirement Calls After 2027 Galliano Met Exhibition Is Scrapped
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 2
Anna Wintour Faces Retirement Calls After 2027 Galliano Met Exhibition Is Scrapped
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 2
Summary
Fashion insiders told the New York Post Wintour should face greater scrutiny — and some said she should retire — after a planned 2027 Met Gala exhibition honoring John Galliano was abandoned.
Galliano said he decided the show should not proceed after reflection with the Met, acknowledging lasting pain from his past racist and antisemitic remarks and saying atonement cannot come through institutional recognition.
Wintour backed the cancellation as “the right decision” but did not apologize, while critics said she pushed the project and misread the moment; defenders said the Met board and other decision-makers had supported it for years.
The backlash centers on Galliano’s 2011 firing from Dior after videos surfaced of him praising Hitler and insulting Jewish and Asian people, a history critics say made a major museum tribute untenable amid heightened antisemitism.