Glam
- Met Gala 2019: Celebrities reveal their 'campest' looks on the red
carpet
The
Met Gala, an annual benefit event for the Costume
Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York, is considered one of the world's biggest
fashion events
It
is known for its exclusive guest list, its
expensive tickets and - most of all - its
extravagant outfits, based on a different theme
each year. This year, that theme was Camp: Notes
on Fashion - to coincide with an upcoming
exhibition at the Met, inspired by US writer and
political activist Susan Sontag's 1964 essay,
Notes on Camp.
The
outfits this year were therefore, like the
exhibition, based on "irony, humour, parody,
pastiche, artifice, theatricality and exaggeration".
And showing everyone how it was done at the very
start of the night was singer Lady Gaga,
who arrived in a billowing pink outfit which was
not quite what it seemed at first glance.
