Met Gala's 2019 Best Looks!

May 08, 2019 / Korede Akinyelure

This year’s Met Gala Theme was “Camp: Notes on Fashion”. This year’s theme was influenced by Susan Sontag’s “Notes on Camp”. Susan Sontag’s essay was published back in 1964. Sontag described Camp as “Its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration. And Camp is esoteric -- something of a private code, a badge of identity even, among small urban cliques.”

The 56th note on Camp reads, “Camp taste is a kind of love, love for human nature. It relishes, rather than judges, the little triumphs and awkward intensities of ‘character.’ . . . Camp taste identifies with what it is enjoying. People who share this sensibility are not laughing at the thing they label as ‘a camp,’ they're enjoying it. Camp is a tender feeling.”

Now, that you all have a little bit more information about Camp, let’s get into these looks!