num_pages: 346
description: What is camp? Drawing from Susan Sontags seminal essay this striking volume explores its meaning and its expression in fashion from its origins to today[An] amazing catalogue. . . . Extraordinary.Christiane Amanpour CNNAlthough an elusive concept camp can be found in most forms of artistic expression revealing itself through an aesthetic of deliberate stylization. Fashion is one of the most overt and enduring conduits of the camp aesthetic. As a site for the playful dynamics between high art and popular culture fashion both embraces and expresses such camp modes of enactment as irony humor parody pastiche artifice theatricality and exaggeration. Drawing from Susan Sontags seminal essay Notes on Camp the book explores how fashion designers have used their mtier as a vehicle to engage with the camp aesthetic in compelling humorous and sometimes incongruous ways. As a sartorial manifestation of the camp sensibility this thought-provoking publication contributes new theoretical and conceptual insights into the camp canon through texts and images. Stunning new photography by Johnny Dufort highlights works by such fashion designers as Virgil Abloh Thom Browne Jean-Charles de Castelbajac John Galliano Jean Paul Gaultier Marc Jacobs Karl Lagerfeld Alessandro Michele Franco Moschino Miuccia Prada Richard Quinn Yves Saint Laurent Elsa Schiaparelli Jeremy Scott Anna Sui Gianni Versace and Vivienne Westwood.Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University PressExhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York(05/06/1909/23/19)
language: English
title: CAMP: Notes on Fashion
publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art