Met Gala: Who Will Get ‘Camp’ Right? Monday night’s 71st annual Met Gala, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute fundraiser, is pretty much the Super Bowl of the fashion world ...

The Met Gala decided on a theme of 'camp' this year, and Twitter is confused what that means. Whatever it is, though, Lady Gaga is queen of it.

But even if camp and the language around it (the term’s frequent misapplication notwithstanding) have trickled into the mainstream, this Met Gala and exhibition feel like a nail in the coffin.

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Many of the gowns and costumes at this year’s Met Gala attempted to capture the essence of camp, and in trying to do so missed the point of camp entirely.

If camp is in part having an excess of what’s necessary, then last night’s Met Gala certainly succeeded on that front. With the guest list of boldfaced names going on into the triple digits ...

After a few years of easy-to-interpret themes—China, Catholicism, robots—the Met Gala went for something a bit more slippery in 2019: camp. Made famous by Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay “Notes ...

Rachel Syme writes about camp and the 2019 Met Gala, hosted by Anna Wintour and attended by celebrities like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Elle Fanning, and more.

Celine Dion arrives for the 2019 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Getty Images/ANGELA WEISS / Contributor If hope is the “thing with feathers,” then camp, as defined by theorist ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened the doors to the Costume Institute's spring 2019 exhibition "Camp: Notes on Fashion," in anticipation of Monday's Met Gala.