The New Yorker – May 13, 2019

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In her 1964 essay “Notes on ‘Camp,’” Susan Sontag wrote, “The hallmark of Camp is the spirit of extrav-

agance. Camp is a woman walking around in a dress made of three million feathers.” A case in point is the

haute-couture ensemble above, designed by Giorgio Armani for the 2018 fall/winter season. This sartorial

confection is just one of two hundred and fifty items, made between the seventeenth and the twenty-first

centuries, on view in the Met Costume Institute’s exhibition “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” opening on May 9.

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