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From the overblown to the ordinary? Met Gala 2027 to celebrate ‘poetics of everyday’

Event regarded as Oscars of fashion industry replaces John Galliano retrospective with homage to the ‘extra ordinary’ A few months after the planned John Galliano Met Gala retrospective was cancelled amid a backlash focused on the designer’s past, a more commonplace theme has been announced: “extraORDINARY: fashion and the poetics of the everyday.” It has left some commentators speculating that celebrities might replace the couture “omelette dresses” and four-part red-carpet performances with jeans and a nice top. While the dress code for the next Met Gala, which will be held on 3 May 2027, is

World

How can we affirm humanity? Let's talk with the great philosopher Souleymane Bachir Diagne

The talk of Let's Talk is dedicated to the one that the New Obs considers one of the 25 greatest thinkers of our time. Souleymane Bachir Diagne is Senegalese but has taught philosophy for more than fifteen years at the prestigious Columbia University in New York. Singing of universalism, he warns about the push of xenophobic discourse around the world in his new book "Hospitality. Affirming humanity", to editions Otherwise.