Camp: Notes on Fashion

Colorful displays of clothing in the Camp: Notes on Fashion exhibition

Camp: Notes on Fashion was the 2019 high fashion art exhibition of the Anna Wintour Costume Center, a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York that houses the collection of the Costume Institute.

The exhibition focused on the fashion style of camp, an aesthetic style and sensibility that regards something as appealing because of its bad taste and ironic value. The style of camp has been a part of fashion since around the 1960s. This creative style of camp has been used by people like Cher and Donatella Versace, and was worn at the 2019 met gala by celebrities like Harry Styles and Kim Kardashian.[1][2] The visual style is closely associated with gay culture.[3] It ran from May 8 through September 9, 2019, and was preceded by the annual Costume Institute Gala,[4] an annual fundraising gala benefiting the Costume Institute, and considered to be the fashion industry's biggest and most prestigious yearly event, on May 6.[5] Each year's gala celebrates the theme of that year's exhibition, and the exhibition sets the tone for the formal dress of the night.[6]

  1. ^ Wertheim, Bonnie (4 May 2019). "What is Camp? The Met Gala 2019 Theme, Explained". The New York Times.
  2. ^ "Met Gala 2019: The Campiest Looks". Vanity Fair. 6 May 2019.
  3. ^ Kerry Malla (January 2005). Roderick McGillis (ed.). "Between a Frock and a Hard Place: Camp Aesthetics and Children's Culture". Canadian Review of American Studies. 35 (1): 1–3. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  4. ^ Chochrek, Ella (2018-10-09). "Met Gala 2019 Theme Announced — and It Invites Wild Interpretations". Footwear News. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
  5. ^ A. O. L. Staff. "The Met Gala theme for 2019 has just been announced – and it'll be unlike anything in gala history". AOL. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
  6. ^ "The theme for next year's Met Gala has been revealed". The Independent. 2018-10-10. Retrieved 2019-06-02.