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What Is Camp? The Met Gala 2019 Theme, Explained (Published 2019)
“Just look at the return of indie sleaze,” she says. “This gauche aesthetic is a symptom of our cultural transition from taste to tastelessness. Where pre-pandemic style was defined by the careful curation of cool, young people are now pushing back against refinement by reclaiming the carelessness that comes with being chaotic, tacky and anarchic.”
marie-claire chappet • ‘What’s the point?’ syndrome, and why we all feel so disconnected right now
Miss Kamala Harris would probably be distraught to know — fashion actually does not really exist within the context of all that came before. Right now, it exists like it fell out of a coconut tree: people can cherry pick visual styles that suit them and not really care about a music scene that it first came from or a movie that it is being referenc
... See moreKyle Raymond Fitzpatrick • Lol Fashion's Giving Me an Existential Crisis 😅
- Since it entered the English language in the late 19th Century, the term has been subject to various interpretations, and there still doesn’t seem be a consensus. - Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay Notes on Camp is the inspiration for the 2019 Metropolitan Museum of Art gala and accompanying exhibition. In it, the late writer and filmmaker wrote: “To sn... See more
Joobin Bekhrad • What does it mean to be camp?
But the camera also judged your clothes with a function called “Style Check,” using a combination of algorithmic analysis and human workers (recall Amazon’s faux-automated Mechanical Turk) to tell you if the garments matched or if the combination was fashionable.