He’s out of vogue — and so is she.
Convicted Hitler-loving haute-couture designer John Galliano finally caved to outcry on Monday and bowed out of a planned Met Gala celebration for him — a move that also delivered a swift kick in the chiffon to powerhouse benefactor Anna Wintour.
“After much reflection and discussion with all those involved, I have decided, with great sadness, that it is best for the exhibition not to take place at this time,’’ the toppled trend-setter said in a statement.
Galliano — a 65-year-old onetime Dior wunderkind and A-list designer to the stars — was forced to give himself the heave-ho thanks to a mounting campaign by New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin, wealthy donors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a host of Jewish leaders.
His critics had been arguing behind the scenes for weeks and months — as they learned of the Met’s decision to honor him — that he had no business being celebrated.
The controversy then gained steam with a very public push from Menin, prompting frantic closed-door powwows among gala organizers and their critics, including many deep-pocket donors who threatened to move their money elsewhere.
Met honchos “should have never made the decision in the first place,’’ Menin, the daughter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, told The Post Monday.
“To me this was a very straightforward issue,’’ said the pol — who even recently tried to personally convince Wintour during a Zoom call from City Hall that the Galliano fete was a bad move.
“It’s one thing to have work displayed by controversial artists,’’ Menin said. “But it’s a choice to decide to honor and celebrate someone’s legacy, and that is where I drew the line.”
Prominent Met donor Alice Tisch told The Post, “It was one of those things that, the more I thought about it, the less I thought of it. And I just decided to start raising it with a few of my friends who were trustees at the Met.
“I think she looks like she lost her judgment here,’’ Tisch said of Wintour, a top Met Trustee and Galliano’s most influential supporter.
“In my opinion, and I don’t know her, but she looks like she fell in love with Galliano, and maybe she fell in love to the point that she couldn’t see him for who he really is.
“Or maybe she saw him for who he is, and she believed that his work is just so great that everybody should see around all of this the same way she did, and that it’s all irrelevant. I think she looks out of touch.”
But Wintour, the chief content officer of Condé Nast and former editor of Vogue, remained defiant, digging in her Manolos even after her embattled buddy — and she — got slapped down.
The 76-year-old issued a fawning statement supporting Galliano’s decision to step aside, calling it “very courageous’’ — prompting furious insiders at Condé Nast to label her seriously out of touch.
“This is a big tone-deaf moment,’’ one Condé source said. “People are questioning her judgment.”
Added another insider: “Oof, it’s so bad.’’
Galliano would have been just the third living fashion designer honored in the Met Gala’s 78-year history, with well-heeled attendees wearing his creations or duds inspired by them.
An accompanying retrospective of his work, to be shown at the Met’s Anna Wintour Costume Center would have opened on May 3, 2027 — Holocaust Remembrance Day.
But Galliano had horrified the world when he was caught in videos spewing vile anti-Jewish and -Asian hate around 2011.
Footage captured the mustachioed menace hissing to a woman at a Paris cafe that she had a “ugly Jewish face” and telling a man with her, “F–king Asian bastard, I will kill you.”
The designer — who has dressed everyone from Princess Diana to Kim Kardashian — also drunkenly told a Jewish woman, “I love Hitler” while saying her family should have been “gassed” during the Holocaust.
His fall from fashion-world grace was swift at the time, leading to Galliano getting dropped by Dior and convicted in France of “public insults based on origin, religious affiliation, race or ethnicity.’’ He was issued a fine.
The fashion pariah claimed he was mentally unstable, entered rehab and appeared to have eventually made amends with some leaders of the Jewish community.
He re-entered the designer world at least partly thanks to the help of Wintour, Vogue’s former longtime editor-in-chief whose alleged over-the-top antics were immortalized in the 2006 Meryl Streep flick “The Devil Wears Prada.’’
Wintour, who stepped down from her elite top role in 2025, helped Galliano continue to land work.
In her statement Monday, she said, “John’s decision that the exhibition devoted to his work should not take place at this time is very courageous and a measure of the man he is. “I believe this is the right decision, and both he and the Museum have my full support.”
Insiders at Vogue said the disaster was a long time in the making — and mainly Wintour’s own fault, although fueled by yes-people lackeys.
“Everybody is whispering behind her back, but nobody is saying anything to her face,’’ a source said. “They’re all ‘yes ma’aming’ her like they’ve always done.
“There were definitely people who had concerns, but no one wanted to challenge her directly and now people are mortified by how this was handled.”
Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL had breakfast with Max Hollein, CEO of the Met, a few weeks ago at the Regency Hotel, along with at least one board member of the Met, The Post is told.
A source said, “He was urging them to reverse the decision on the Galliano show.
“It was a combination of things: donors, board members, the Julie Menin letter. But Jonathan was one of the loudest voices from the Jewish community.”
The situation has meanwhile led to some serious navel-gazing at the Met.
“I think there will be reverberations for years,’’ a prominent donor said.” It never should have even gotten to that point.”
Mark Treyger, CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council, agreed, saying, “A man who declared, ‘I love Hitler’ and told people their families would be ‘gassed.’
“An exhibition honoring him. A gala on Yom HaShoah [Holocaust Remembrance Day]. In New York City. The Met isn’t facing a scheduling problem,” he said of concerns now over how to whip up another celebrant on such short notice.
“It’s facing a judgment problem.”
—Additional reporting by Carlos Greer, Reuven Fenton, Carl Campanile and Sara Nathan
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