Camp: Notes on Fashion
This year’s Fashion Institute exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is all about camp from the early days of dandyish gay men to its adoption by women in outlandish and outrageous gowns and shoes.
There’s low camp and high camp and camp that is somewhat subtle and that that is deliberate. This exhibit, with its rosy pink halls and its black gallery with mannequins in colorful light boxes, is exuberant, fun, and even silly. Everyone should find something to enjoy including in the background a recording of Judy Garland singing “Somewhere over the Rainbow.”
