Camp

"Camp: Notes on Fashion" is the Met's fashion show of the year, with its title derived from Susan Sontag's 1964 essay "Notes on Camp." A lot could be said how they relate and, while both successfully situate camp, the term still seems significantly open to interpretation.

While camp is a predominantly visual aesthetic, its power to me comes from a particular feeling it elicits. Camp is that delicious tart that stings the corner of your mouth when you eat an otherwise sweet berry, it is that color that you just can't define if it's blue or green, yellow or orange, but it's uncomfortably appealing. Camp is culture devised by outsiders. Camp is queer. Camp is unexpected. Camp is warm but it is also dry ice. It is that thing you hate at first and, all of a sudden, you cannot be without. That is my camp.

And these are my fashion highlights from the show!