Met Gala: Here’s all the campiest, most outrageous fashion
For this year’s Met Gala, celebrities and designers paid homage to camp in the most ostentatious of ways.
This year’s Met Gala and accompanying Costume Institute exhibition opted for an often hard-to-describe theme: camp. Not like “let’s go camping in the woods,” but as in “The Wizard of Oz is a campy film.” In a famous 1964 essay, Susan Sontag described camp as “love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration.”