Met Gala Theme Is ideal for Its Hosts, Lady Gaga and Harry Styles 2019

October 11, 2018

"China: Through The Looking Glass" Costume Institute Benefit Gala

The 2018 "Great Bodies: Fashion and The Catholic Imagination" Met Gala may have given us Rihanna dressed as a high form pope, however the topic for one year from now's Met Gala will undoubtedly convey significantly more ludicrous design minutes. 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art uncovered its 2019 Costume Exhibition (and Met Gala) will be themed "Camp: Notes on Fashion." No, not camp as in dozing sacks and tents, but rather camp as in misrepresented form. As per the New York Times, the presentation is roused by Susan Sontag's 1964 article that characterizes camp as "affection for the unnatural: of ingenuity and distortion." 

Fittingly, the affair will be co-facilitated by two batty form devotees: Lady Gaga and Harry Styles. Considerably all the more fitting, the whole 2019 occasion is being supported by Gucci. Gucci's Alessandro Michele alongside tennis symbol Serena Williams will likewise be joining the two pop stars as co-seats of one year from now's celebration. 

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"We are experiencing an outrageous camp minute, and it felt extremely applicable to the social discussion to take a gander at what is regularly rejected as vacant paltriness however can be really an exceptionally modern and great political device, particularly for minimized societies," Andrew Bolton, Costume Institute caretaker, told the Times, "Regardless of whether it's pop camp, strange camp, high camp or political camp — Trump is an extremely camp figure — I believe it's opportune." 

The 2019 Met Gala will occur on Monday, May 6, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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