Amid growing backlash over the Met Gala‘s choice to honor designer John Galliano at the big event next May, Met trustees and board members are “mulling” whether to reschedule the fundraiser away from the previously announced May 3 date to avoid coinciding with the Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day. The possibility of postponing the gala for a week has been raised in a New York Times report on the increasing Galliano backlash: The accomplished British fashion designer was convicted of a hate crime by a French court in 2011 for making public antisemitic outbursts, and earlier this month The Times...
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