In addition to being the day royalty came into the world, Monday also brought forth fashion's biggest night: the blockbuster fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, better known as the Met Gala.
The party is hosted by Vogue editor Anna Wintour, Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele, Lady Gaga, Serena Williams, and Harry Styles.This year's theme is"Camp: Notes on Fashion," and no one knows exactly what that's going to mean. It's a nod to"," a 1964 Susan Sontag essay, that itself touches on how difficult"camp" is to define. It's something that has a lot of artifice, that's exaggerated.
"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman.'" Camp can sometimes, from a"serious" point of view, be considered either kitsch, or bad art.