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Here’s Everything You Need To Know About The MET Gala 2019

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NEW YORK, NY – MAY 02: Actress Lupita Nyong’o attends the “Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology” Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Founded by Eleanor Lambert, The Costume Institute Gala better known as The Met Gala which takes place annually at the New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is easily one of the biggest fashion events in the annual social calendar and without a doubt the biggest in the international fashion fundraising calendar. Ever since 1948, when the first benefit held, the Met Gala has housed all the biggest and most famous names in the fashion, art, music industries converge in the New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to celebrate the latest exhibition, raise money for the Met’s Costume Institute and deliver looks that showcase their personal interpretations of the themes of the year’s exhibition.

Throughout it’s history, the exhibition has had just about every theme you could imagine from Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and The Catholic Imagination, Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology, American Women of Style and now this year, Camp: Notes On Fashion. The 2019 exhibition centers Susan Sontag’s seminal 1964 essay Notes on “Camp”, which gives vast room for varying interpretation. In the words of Andrew Bolton, the curator in charge of the Costume Institute, Camp Fashion is:

Love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration… style at the expense of content… the triumph of the epicene style

In fashion, camp is playful, fun, a bigger-than-life exaggeration. Think Lady Gaga in her meat-dress at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. It is fantastical fashion being brought to life. However, the theme’s importance is beyond what the stars will be wear to The Met Gala, it is the political and cultural environment which influenced Andrew Bolton’s choice of theme one also has to note;

Camp has become increasingly more mainstream in its pluralities — political camp, queer camp, pop camp, the conflation of high and low, the idea that there is no such thing as originality.

The Met Gala 2019 will be hosted by three global stars who need no introduction: Lady Gaga, Harry Styles and Serena Williams and as is tradition, it will be held on the first Monday of May which falls on May 6th this year and at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. With a theme like Camp, one can not truly predict what the stars will wear to the Gala, however one can predict it will be quite the spectacle.

Source: BellaNaijaStyle

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Ben Orange, is a stylist and a senior fashion editor at GLAMCITYZ, who covers topics in Fashion, Style, and weddings. With his keen eye for trends, he expertly navigates the dynamic world of fashion, offering invaluable insights and advice to readers. In his leisure time, you'll often find Ben indulging in his love for reading and enjoying the melodies of good music.

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