2019 MET GALA – SUSAN SONTAG – NOTES ON “CAMP” THEME… ITS A LOVE BUT SHE WOULD PROBABLY HATE, KIND OF UNDERSTANDING

LAST NIGHT, MAY 6^TH , WAS THE…

2019 MET GALA!!!

• BILLY PORTER WEARING – THE BLONDS

WHAT IS THE MET GALA? THIS BIG EVENT IS NEW YORK’S METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART FASHION FUNDRAISER TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE MET’S COSTUME INSTITUTE AND CELEBRATE THE GRAND OPENING TO THEIR LATEST EXHIBITION. ELEANOR LAMBERT, A PUBLICIST, FOUNDED THE COMBINATION OF FASHION REALMS, FILM, MUSIC, AND ART TO ENCOURAGE DONATIONS FROM NEW YORK’S HIGH SOCIETY.

2019 THEME : SUSAN SONTAG’S SEMINAL 1964 ESSAY NOTES ON “CAMP”. THIS EXHIBIT FEATURED RANGING 200 FINE ART AND FASHION OBJECTS, VISUALLY TRACE BACK TO THE ORIGINS OF 17^TH CENTURY, SPECIFICALLY THE COURT OF VERSAILLES.

SUSAN’S NOTES SUBJECT TO AN ARISTOCRATIC HOMOSEXUAL TASTE AND AESTHETIC. IT WAS CONSIDERED A “LIBERAL ATTITUDE TOWARD SEXUALITY, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY OF 1960s”. (Moser 2019) ITS BEEN TOLD THAT, WHEN HER WORK WAS FIRST DISPLAYED IN THE 60s ERA, IT WAS CONSIDERED SICK AND PERVERTED.

THEY SAY IF SHE WERE AROUND TO EMBRACE THIS MODERN-DAY DISPLAY OF HER CREATION, THEY BELIEVE SHE WOULD CARRY A LOVE/ HATE RELATIONSHIP TO THE GRAND OPENING EVENT. SHE WOULD HAVE LOVED IDEA OF HER WORK BEING OPENLY EMBRACED AS VISUALS THAT DISPLAY THE ATTEMPT OF AESTHETIC OF UNDERSTANDING WHAT SHE WAS WORKING TOWARD. HOWEVER, SHE WOULD HAVE HATED THE IDEA OF IT BEING A COSTUME-LIKE AMUSEMENT FOR CELEBRITIES TO TABLOID WHAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED AS HARD-LIVING FOR THE AVERAGE INDIVIDUAL THAT DESIRES TO EXPRESS THEIR SEXUALITY IN THE EVERDAY FUNCTION.      – GETTY IMAGE

“IN A WORLD WHERE GAY PEOPLE ARE MURDERED EVERY DAY, SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN ALARMED TO SEE A PROFOUND CRITIQUE OF MAINSTREAM SOCIETY APPRORIATED FOR AN EVENT THAT SYMBOLIZES THE INSIDER REALM FROM WHICH GAY WOULD HAVE BEEN EXCLUDED.” Moser 2019

HOWEVER, ALL IN ALL THE TRIBUTE IS A BEAUTIFUL APPRECIATION OF WHAT SHE STOOD FOR BECAUSE NOW IN THE SENSE IT IS AN ACCEPTING LIFESTYLE IN THIS MODERN DAY AND REGARDLESS EXPRESSED BY A CELEBRITY IN A GALA DISPLAY OR A FREE SPIRIT ROAMING THE STREETS, IT IS NOW A BREATHING CHOICE OF LIVING AND CULTURE THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE FOUGHT FOR. BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY WE ARE ALL PEOPLE AND WE ARE ALL LOVED BY THE MOST HIGH THAT ARE JUST TRYING TO LOVE AND SURVIVE IN THIS WORLD.

…LEADING THROUGH THE NIGHT, HERE ARE SOME GETTY IMAGES FROM THE MET GALA ITSELF AND THE OTHER OUTFIT CHANGES FOR THE AFTER-PARTIES, ENJOY!

WEB CITATIONS

• GETTY IMAGES

• Met Gala 2019: Everything You Need To Know                                                                   Alice Newbold – https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/met-gala-2019

• Met Gala 2019: Live Updates                                                                                 Veronica Rocha and Meg Wagner – https://www.cnn.com/entertainment/live-news/met-gala-2019/index.html

• Met Gala 2019 After-parties: The Looks You Didn’t See on the Carpet                 Elyse Dupre – https://www.eonline.com/news/1039186/met-gala-2019-after-parties-all-the-looks-you-didn-t-see-on-the-red-carpet

• Would Susan Sontag Love the Met Gala’s Homage To Camp? Her Biographer Investigates Person                                                                                                    Benjamin Moser – https://www.townandcountrymag.com/style/fashion-trends/a27229798/susan-sontag-met-gala-camp-theme/

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