Lena Waithe out here serving the truth:
ATTENTION: THOSE ARENT PINSTRIPES THOSE ARE DISCO LYRICS
holy shit you can kind of see if you zoom in. the level of detail and thought put into this
she snapped, she really did, she always does, that’s life, that’s camp
No one has shown the buttons on the blazer.
They’re RuPaul, Dorian Corey, Freddie Pendavis, Octavia St. Laurent, Paris Dupree, Pepper LaBeija, Venus Xtravaganza, and Willi Ninja.
minimoonstar replied to your post “Camp: Notes on Fashion, or: The Met Gala Goes Full Galaxy Brain”
M…Maybe Ezra Miller also wanted to go as a seraphim to the Catholicism one and was talked down due to it being too camp
Oh there were a FAIR amount of looks this year that felt like they were the camp rejects of previous years, and Ezra Miller was definitely one of them
Actually speaking of Camp Catholicism, maybe the number one realization I had on Met Gala Boxing Day, kicked off by a comment from @memory-for-trifles, is that we’ve now had two years in a row where Jude Law could have just straight up come as the Young Pope and it would have been note-perfect
Diane von Furstenburg is wearing Andy Warhol’s portrait of her, which is SUCH a power move. Respect!
Camp: Notes on Fashion, or: The Met Gala Goes Full Galaxy Brain
Camp is sincerely not serious. It is elevated kitsch. It is high-art appreciation of the banal, the pop, the tacky. It is good taste in bad taste. It is queer. It is exaggerated. It always exists in context. It is both nearly impossible to achieve at something as styled to the nines as the Met Gala, and yet also the Met Gala is one of the most camp things on this planet.
Basically, at the end of the day camp is like The Game of aesthetic philosophies, where the instant you try to define it you’re already lost. And at the end of this day, we’re left with a pile of celebrity red carpet photos that are just OUTRAGEOUS. Is it camp?? Shhh. None of it is. All of it is. It does not matter. It was *sublime*
JEN AND I ARE BACK AND WE TALKED ABOUT THESE:
LADY GAGA
Co-Chair Lady Gaga had three successive on-carpet costume reveals and ended up in spangly undies with a pink Radio Flyer wagon full of cowboy hat boxes and rosé. Anything Lady Gaga was going to do was going to be camp, but melting Met Twitter from the jump with a Gala game-changing PERFORMANCE of her studied exuberant weirdpop whimsy was a ~primo~ choice.
BILLY PORTER
Frankly, frankly??? This is too high art to even be camp. IT’S HIGH ART.
FLORENCE WELCH and SAOIRSE RONAN
Putting these together because a) the similar wing-flame structural shoulder thing (this year was big into SHOULDERS wasn’t it) and b) because while it wasn’t reading particularly camp to me (this was when I was still trying), Jen then laid this on me:
Jen: Florence and Saoirse both sort of look like they’re wearing things rejected from previous Met Galas (Heavenly Bodies and China Through the Looking Glass, respectively) because they would have been called campy.
AND NOW I’M IN2 IT, conceptually
CELINE DION
Celine Dion, Vegas superstar, in replica Ziegfeld Follies? Caaaaaammmp!
ELLE FANNING
Wow I’m impressed. I mean it’s all very ironic but also, the woman is wearing nail charms. She committed.
HAMISH BOWLES
FUCKING MEANWHILE.
Tarra: WHOMST is THIS!!
Jen: Boy I wish I knew
This is apparently the English editor-at-large of Vogue. He’s killin’ it.
KATY PERRY
Katy Perry as an entire ass lit up chandelier. An entire. Chandelier.
Tarra: What truly would have sent this over the edge would be Sia swinging on her
Jen:
Hahahahaha holy shit, that does it.
LIZZO
THIS IS JUST SILLY AND DELIGHTFUL. CAMP IS ABOUT DELIGHT.
JANELLE MONAE
Tom & Lorenzo: Ruling: SURREALIST CAMP. The high-art Miro undertones paired with an actual winking eye boob make this hit the mark.
Jen: Hers is so good. More surreal than camp, I would say, but I just like it generally.
Me: An EYEreola!!
frankly i have no idea what this theme means or is or why it’s happening, but you know what? we’re rolling with it. they all look fucking bonkers.
My brain broke hours ago, I just love everything. Is it camp? Is it kitsch? Is it trashy Dada? WHO CARES IT’S ALL SO UNHINGED I’M LIVING
platoapproved asked:
would peak camp be someone arriving in an outfit constructed out of printed versions of notes on camp?
FASCINATING. My immediate instinct is no, campy, not camp. Maybe the best definition of camp, by my lights, is “good taste in bad taste.” For instance, Billy Porter looks phenomenal and glorious and I adore it, but probably not camp! But my love of missed camp kinda transforms it INTO camp and so it’s all just a merry-go-round of conceptual nonsense and I’m having a great time here on Fash Night
secifosseluce replied to your post: Last year I made a semi half-assed round-up post…
YES.
agree on everything. im the personification of every mustache-twirling villain right now. this will be /delicious/ indeed
It’s like the theme this year is basically “theory” I am just, I am dying. Dress like theory.
Anyway Lady Gaga just pulled three costume changes while walking up the red carpet for a total of four (4) looks and now has a hot pink Radio Flyer wagon filled with hats and I think I can say: THEORETICALLY SOUND. I’m exhilarated.
when it comes to exuberance & excess, i trust that woman with my wardrobe, my life, and my immortal soul. she knows what she was asked to bring and she brings it.
anyway I’m feeling like an ancient roman emperor, enjoying my lavish dinner while admiring the gladiators entering the arena, but this time they’re wearing mediocre designer clothing and im – living for it
THE VIIIIIBE
But listen, so far I am STILL ENTERTAINED??! Now Billy Porter has arrived as a golden eagle carried on a palanquin held by shirtless men, guys…this Gala might rule?
secifosseluce replied to your post: Last year I made a semi half-assed round-up post…
YES.
agree on everything. im the personification of every mustache-twirling villain right now. this will be /delicious/ indeed
It’s like the theme this year is basically “theory” I am just, I am dying. Dress like theory.
Anyway Lady Gaga just pulled three costume changes while walking up the red carpet for a total of four (4) looks and now has a hot pink Radio Flyer wagon filled with hats and I think I can say: THEORETICALLY SOUND. I’m exhilarated.