The Super Bowl of Fashion, The Oscars of the East Coast, THE Met Gala! Last night celebs ‘camped out’ for the 71st Annual Met Gala celebrating “Camp: Notes on Fashion“!
Ah…the First Monday in May. Arguably the greatest night of fashion and one we wait a year for the second it’s over! Each year The Metropolitan Museum of Art pulls out all the stops for the opening night of their new Costume Institute exhibition with the always-extravagant Met Gala. This years theme? Camp– but don’t go pulling out those tents and sleeping bags just yet. “Camp: Notes on Fashion” had left a lot of people with one major question…”what exactly does it mean?”
Kitsch, irony, and opulence. A word with a seemingly endless list of definitions, yet none that can be nailed down to one simple meaning. In fact, a 1964 essay by Susan Sontag, Notes on “Camp” (<click to see the full list), listed 58 definitions of the word. This was not lost on the Met Gala team, consisting of none other than Vogue editor-in-chief and event chair, Anna Wintour, and Curator of the Costume Institute, Andrew Bolton, when they chose Sontag’s essay as inspiration for this year’s Met Gala theme.
“The hallmark of Camp is the spirit of extravagance. Camp is a woman walking around in a dress made of three million feathers…Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is “too much.”
Sontag, Notes on “Camp”
And dresses of a million feathers is just what we got! Bold shoulders, eclectic head pieces, feathers, jewels and more…the pink carpet had it all! This year’s theme could have easily been translated to “go big or go home” with all the extravagance!
Image courtesy of @voguemagazine by @coreytenold
With the Met Gala co-chairs being Lady Gaga, Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele, Harry Styles, and Serena Williams it’s no wonder the fashions were totally out of this world! The classics of camp: Gucci, Moschino, and Christian Siriano, dominated the carpet to no surprise, and left us all in awe!
Image courtesy of @gucci, @allure,@jaredleto,
Gucci
Images courtesy of @moschino
Moschino
Images courtesy of @csiriano
Christian Siriano
More magical moments…
This year brought along something that had never been done before: grand entrance performances! Lady Gaga gave us four Brandon Maxwell looks before four people had even arrived to the carpet! Billy Porter arrived in Cleopatra-esque fashion being carried by a slew of barely clad broadway performers! Zendaya channeled her inner Cinderella and literally lit up the runway! And that was only a tiny portion of the show we got at the Met Gala carpet!
Image courtesy of @thebillyporter
Image courtesy of @elleusa
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Zendaya literally lit up the pink carpet in Tommy Hilfiger
Scroll through below by clicking the arrows on the left and right side of the image for the rest of our favorite pink carpet Met Gala looks!
Kylie (left) and Kendall (right) Jenner in Versace Image courtesy of @revolve
Images in feature courtesy of @cosmopolitan
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