“Camp: Notes on Fashion” decorates the Met Gala 2019 with ornaments and feathers
In 1964 Susan Sontag, an American writer and intellectual, wrote an essay called “Notes on Camp” in which she defined Camp as a particular sensibility, “a variant to sophistication but hardly identical with it”. Sontag went on by saying that Camp finds its roots in the unconditional love for artifice, exaggeration, esoterism, rather than being an idea, an articulate thought process. In 2019, Costume Institute of Metropolitan Museum of New York tried to celebrate this spirit.