CAMP MET AROMA

En Vogue Thinkings about the Met Gala

                                 Met Gala 2014 Stella Group

The guest list for the Met Gala 2019 might have been publicised last week, but the industry has been quietly ruminating on it since May 8 2018 – the day after the red carpet was rolled away for another year. As soon as the photographs of the fabulous fashion are circulated, it’s on to the next one. “Who’s cool?”, “who’s on-brand?” designers ask Hollywood’s most in-demand stylists, such as Elizabeth Saltzman and and Kate Young, as email exchanges fire up the world over and the courting begins. Ticket offers must tick off friends and those who are contractually obliged to go with a brand, as well as tapping into the future zeitgeist.....

Traffic at the  the Ladies Bathroom Met Gala 2016
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“Interpreting the theme is such an individual thing,” Young muses. “It really does depend on the person.” Even Andrew Bolton, the curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Notes on Camp exhibition, says himself that “camp” is impossible to define as it is “an amoeba” or “liquid mercury”. The text that underlines and inspires the contents of the show, Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay Notes on Camp, is also “written as jottings” because “that’s what camp is – a series of random expressions”. Bolton might be hoping for “Bob Mackie-styled Cher looks” and “Bjork-laying-an-egg moments” on May 6, but there are lots of hoops to jump through first. Let the games begin.

read more: https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/what-to-expect-met-gala-theme

                 

                                   Katy Perry at the Met Gala 2018

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