Still Don't Understand What CAMP Means?
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This years MET Gala is based on Susan Sontag’s “Camp: Notes on Fashion” from 1964 that tries to describe the sensibility to which we attribute that outrageous, terrifying and yet fascinating feeling some things give us, things that can really be anything: Songs, Music, Clothes, Words, Experiences.
Guests are shocked by Katy Perry’s unsurprisingly extravagant outfit Via Corey Tenold
Camp is not a style but a sensibility, it is the desire to verbalize or visualize something that might seem unnatural or exaggerated to the conventional mindset. Therefore, ‘Camp’ is not only in the heart of the creator, but it is born from its mix with the eye of the beholder.
Kendall and Kylie Jenner, both in Versace. Photographed by Corey Tenold
Florence Welch and Saoirse Ronan both in Gucci
Kacey Musgraves in Jeremy Scott. Photographed by Corey Tenold
According to Anna Wintour, Vogue’s Creative Director and chair of the Met Gala, the theme each year is selected by Andrew Bolton (Head Curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute) and it seeks to challenge guests to wear their best interpretation of it. Anna’s only advice on this is to make the theme easily understandable although this year might have gotten a bit out of hand. (oopsie!)
Cardi B in Thom Browne, via Corey Tenold
Yes, Billy Porter arrived in a throne
In a few words, this year’s Met Gala is all about self expression, individuality, outrageousness, tongue and cheek but most importantly, fun ideas of what fashion should be.
Michael B Jordan, Cara Delevinge and Jared Leto playing with Leto’s head
Anna Wintour wearing the last piece Karl Lagerfeld designed for her
Serena Williams in Versace and Nike shoes
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