The Met Gala, which sees celebrities dressed in extravagant fineries, is an annual fashion event which is held on the first Monday in the month of May. AdvertisingEach year, the star-studded event has a unique theme, and this year it is ‘Camp: Notes on Fashion’. Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute, has framed the exhibition around Susan Sontag’s seminal essay. Established by publicist Eleanor Lambert, the Met Gala sees the most famous faces from the realms of fashion, film, music and art come together to raise money for the Met’s Costume Institute. The event is held at the Costume Institute Gala at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Source: Indian Express May 05, 2019 11:31 UTC