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Serena Williams, Lady Gaga Named Co-Chairs of 2019 Met Gala

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The theme will be “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” based on an essay by Susan Sontag.

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Tennis star Serena Williams will co-chair the 2019 Met Gala along with Harry Styles, Lady Gaga, and Anna Wintour, Vogue reports. The theme will be “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” based on a 1964 Susan Sontag essay. Andrew Bolton, curator in charge of the Costume Institute, said that “camp” was summed up by Sontag as the “love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration... style at the expense of content... the triumph of the epicene style.” Given the cultural and political moment, Bolton said he “felt it would have a lot of cultural resonance.” The magazine reported that the idea might translate into fashion through a “surplus” of sequins, feathers, and big bows. Max Hollein, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s director, also said that the Gala would pay homage to camp’s “profound influence on both high art and popular culture.”

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