A Crowd-Sourced Guide To 'Camp' In 2019, According To Met Gala Attendees

Met Gala themes are always ripe for 'imaginative' interpretations. Fulfilment of this year's theme, for the Met Gala 2019, proved no less entertaining.

As we know, each year a different dress code is chosen as the theme of the evening to tie in with the exhibition opening. The theme for this year was 'Camp: Notes on Fashion', and was inspired by Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay 'Notes on ‘Camp', which is widely believed to have brought the idea of 'camp' to the mainstream. 'The essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration,' Sontag once explained in Partisan Review.

'Love of the unnatural' and observance of 'exaggeration' came in a range of brilliant forms this year - but more often than not, with lots of feathers and some pretty big shoulders.

Beyond that, though, interpretations of 'camp' were extremely varied. According to this year's Met Gala attendees, this is what 'camp' implies in 2019:

Spare Body Parts Are Camp

Fail to prepare, prepare for failure. So come with extra eyes, heads, faces, and teeth? Hey, you have to pay for healthcare in the US, so this could be practical.

Cara Delevingne brought a few extra sets of gnashers, just in case

Something in your eye there Ezra Miller?

Jared Leto doing the Met Gala Gucci challenge

Cameras Are Camp

Because what else about this get-up is camp, Frank? Unless you maxed out on conspicuous camp at your Paris Is Burning-themed 30th birthday party.

Frank Ocean

The Stage Is Camp

Lady Gaga came as a play in four parts, and Jordan Roth arrived in a theatre printed cape by Iris van Herpen. Theatre is camp.

Jordan Roth came as an actual theatre!

Hat-Stands Are Camp

Rather than arrive wearing one hat, multiple hats were a 'Thing.' Who - what - but a hat-stand could've inspired that.

Janelle, could you take my coat too?

Twinning Is Camp

Case in point: Lena Dunham and Jemima Kirke in Christopher Kane; Bette Midler and daughter Sophie von Haselberg, the spitting image of her legendary 'stage mom'; Kendall and Kylie Jenner. The Olsen twins are therefore inherently camp, so showed up subtly dressed in vintage Chanel.

Twinning in Versace feathers

Uterine Linings Are Camp

Too much? We're all advocating for women's rights and healthcare, so... Cardi B came in a Thom Browne interpretation of a uterine wall.

Home Furnishings Are Camp

Kim Kardashian called it, showing up to the Met Gala as a sofa in 2013. This year, frames, chandeliers, and glassware made appearances on the pink carpet. And, every single person who showed up in feathers (we stopped counting at 32) came ready to clean-up, doubling as dusters.

Joan Collins and Naomi Campbell (both in Valentino Haute Couture) ready to dust the premises

Fried Chicken Is Camp

Tiffany Haddish brought a baggie of fried chicken. 'There's not enough food!' she said. 'I brought chicken in my purse.' Important question: did she bring hot-sauce?

To conclude: whatever the hell you show up to a camp-themed gala carrying, or wearing, is camp, so decreed by us.