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A HUMAN CHANDELIER, A FACE FULL OF EXTRA EYES, A REAL-LIFE CINDERELLA, AND AN ACTOR WITH TWO HEADS – celebrities attended this year’s met gala fully embracing its camp theme. looking to

susan sontag’s 1964 seminal essay, which inspired the 2019 exhibition, fashion designers drew from a busy costume box of connotations explored in a _less-than-narrow_ analysis. EZRA MILLER

ENCAPSULATED SONTAG’S DEFINITION OF CAMP AS A ‘TRIUMPH OF THE EPICENE’, STEPPING OUT ON THE PINK CARPET WEARING A BURBERRY SUIT CINCHED IN BY A BEJEWELLED CORSET BODICE. underneath a

masquerade mask, the actor revealed a face of five eyes painted so perfectly it was difficult to decipher which ones were his own. ‘c_amp is the triumph of the epicene style. (the

convertibility of ‘man’ and ‘woman,’ ‘person’ and ‘thing.’) but all style, that is, artifice, is, ultimately, epicene. life is not stylish. neither is nature,_‘ SONTAG NOTES. >  CAMP_

‘HAS AN AFFINITY FOR CERTAIN ARTS RATHER THAN OTHERS…CLOTHES, FURNITURE, ALL THE ELEMENTS OF VISUAL DÉCOR, FOR INSTANCE, MAKE UP A LARGE PART OF CAMP,’ _SONTAG ADDS. that might explain why

katy perry turned up as a human chandelier. the 40-pound-costume was designed by moschino’s jeremy scott and resembled beauty and the beast’s lumière, no doubt a disney camp classic. image

via @wmag SEMBLANCES OF DISNEY WERE ALSO SEEN IN ZANDAYA’S CINDERELLA-INSPIRED LOOKS. a dress designed by tommy hilfiger transformed from basic black into a bold blue gown after a series of

lights, concealed within the bodice and the train, were switched on with the simple wave of a wand. the actress shared an instagram post revealing some of the behind-the-scenes technology.

>  CAMP IS ‘THE SENSIBILITY OF FAILED SERIOUSNESS, OF THE THEATRICALIZATION OF EXPERIENCE’, ACCORDING TO SONTAG. camp is ‘_a sensibility (as distinct from an idea) one of the hardest

things to talk about_,’ it is a ‘_vision of the world in terms of style – but a particular kind of style. it is the love of the exaggerated, the ‘off’ of things-being-what-they-are-not.’_

image via @wmag CUE GUCCI’S ALESSANDRO MICHELE WHOSE CAMPY AESTHETIC EMBELLISHED THE LOOKS OF SEVERAL CELEBRITIES BUT WAS PERFECTLY DEMONSTRATED ON ACTOR JARED LETO. muse to the italian

fashion designer, he borrowed from the brand’s fall 2018 runway show wearing a long sleeve silk red gown with a diamond encrusted bodice, accessorized with a replica of his own head. > 

THE REIGNING QUEEN OF EXTRAVAGANCE HOWEVER WAS LADY GAGA WHO TURNED UP IN A BILLOWING PINK GOWN BY BRANDON MAXWELL, ONLY TO REVEAL THREE MORE OUTFITS UNDERNEATH. met gala co-host this year

alongside harry styles, who appropriately wore a sheer blouse and high heels, gaga eventually stripped down to her underwear in perfect ode to sontag’s understanding of the word… image via

@wmag ‘_the whole point of camp is to dethrone the serious. camp is playful, anti-serious. more precisely, camp involves a new, more complex relation to ‘the serious.’ one can be serious

about the frivolous, frivilous about the serious._‘ kieron marchese I designboom may 07, 2019