As reported by the Times’s chief fashion critic Vanessa Friedman, the Met convened several meetings between Jewish leaders and Anna Wintour, Vogue’s global editorial director and a Met trustee; Andrew Bolton, curator in charge of the Met’s Costume Institute; and Galliano himself. Among the Jewish leaders were Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, and rabbis from significant synagogues in New York. And at a moment of heightened division, I feel the museum and myself have a real responsibility to confront these issues.” Galliano would be just the third living fashion designer to have a Met Costume Institute show, after Yves Saint Laurent in 1983 and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons in 2017. “It remains to be seen whether that attitude will extend to the broader Met audience and the Galliano show,” Friedman wrote of the show scheduled to open in May 2027.