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Posted at 8:08 am Eastern Time on October 10, 2018
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Josmar Taveras, United States today
Lady Gaga poses for photographers when she arrives at the premiere of her new movie "A Star Is Born" in London on Thursday.(Photo: Vianney Le Caer / Invision / AP)
NEW YORK (AP) – The Met Gala next year will be downright campy.
No, seriously: The Metropolitan Museum announced Tuesday that "Camp: Notes on Fashion" will be the title of its upcoming exhibition of the incredible Spring Costume Institute. The exhibition is launched each year by the famous Met Gala, where participants are invited to dress according to the prescribed theme.
The museum said in a statement that the exhibition's setting is based on Susan Sontag's 1964 essay titled "Notes on the Camp".
The show "will examine how fashion designers have used their craft to convey the camp in a myriad of compelling, humorous and sometimes incongruous ways," he said.
The Met Gala, formerly known as the Costume Institute Benefit, is still chaired by a team of high profile celebrities, and next year will be no exception. The May 6 affair, which will be underwritten by Gucci, will be chaired by pop star and current actress Lady Gaga, tennis star Serena Williams and singer Harry Styles, alongside designer Gucci Alessandro Michele and, as always, Vogue the editor Anna Wintour.
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The new theme seems decidedly lighter than the huge success of "Celestial bodies: fashion and the Catholic imagination" of last year, on the relationship between fashion and Catholicism.
This lavish and sprawling exhibition attracted more visitors than any of the Costume Institute exhibits – more than 1.3 million people visited Fifth Avenue and nearly 200,000 in the Cloisters Branch – and one of the busiest exhibitions in the history of the museum.
"Fashion is the most overt and most enduring vector of camp aesthetics," said Andrew Bolton, curator in charge of the Institute of Costume and creator of his blockbuster movies. Bolton said the 2019 issue "would advance the creative and critical dialogue about the camp's ongoing and ever-changing impact on fashion".
The exhibition will present about 175 objects, not only clothes, but also sculptures, paintings and drawings.
Among the designers included in the show are: Cristóbal Balenciaga, Thom Browne, Gucci, Marc Jacobs, Charles James, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, Prada, Versace and many others.
"Camp: Notes on Fashion" will run from May 9 to September 8.
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