Quantcast

The first Monday of May is a fashion holiday. It's the Met Gala. When it comes to fashion's biggest fundraising night, The Costume Institute Gala at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is as big as it gets.


2019's Met Gala Theme: Camp. What is camp, you ask? Well, it ain't summer camp, if that's what you're thinking. The motif is meant to call up on Susan Sontag's "Camp: Notes on Fashion" and even the most avid fashion gurus had to take time to unpack what that really means. After doing my homework, I found that the theme derives from Sontag's quote, "Indeed the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration." To me, that means over-the-top extra and I was born extra.

GQ said, "In short, the Camp sensibility is going all the way, going too far, seeing that straight ahead there is a large yellow sign that reads, WARNING: END OF GOOD TASTE, and simply refusing to turn around."

With all of this in mind, we were clutching our pearls waiting to see how the celebs made this theme their own. Click through the gallery for some of the looks we adored from this year's gala!

Cardi B

Wearing a red feather Thom Browne number, the Invasion of Privacy rapper dominated yet another Met Gala. We have never seen the world renowned rapper in such an elevated way. Browne told Vogue, "I designed this dress for Cardi specifically because she has the ultimate beauty in a woman's body, and that is what the dress is about for me: taking advantage of that beauty."

Featured image by Getty Images

 

RELATED

 
ALSO ON XONECOLE
Aries-April-2025-monthly-horoscopes

April is a month to slow down and to fully grasp what has been. The month starts in fiery Aries Season, but we are also in the thick of Retrograde Season as we begin the month as well. Thankfully, Mercury finally goes direct on April 7, after being retrograde mid-March, and communication matters are clearing up. This is a month of mental clarity, a fresh start, and not being afraid to dream a little bigger.

On April 12, there is a Full Moon in Libra, and this Full Moon brings relationship and financial matters full circle. This is the time to let go of what doesn’t make you feel balanced or in harmony and to create space for more peace to enter your life. Venus goes direct in Pisces on the same day, after being retrograde since March 1, and love is healing. With Venus now direct, there are more opportunities for commitment and longevity in love, and there is overall a greater feeling of romance, receptivity, and compassion in the air now.

KEEP READINGShow less
Turns Out Sober Sex Might Be The Underrated Secret To Better Orgasms

Hmph. I know there has got to be at least three times a week when our grandparents will hear about something that folks present as being revolutionary that causes them to just roll their eyes, shrug their shoulders, and continue to go on with whatever they were doing. Listen, call it old-fashioned thinking if you want to but if you want to avoid a lot of unnecessary regret in this life, hang out with your elders (and actually listen to what they are saying) sometimes — they’ve already been where you are and, since when it comes to them, you can’t say the same, you just might get a few gems (in fact, I can almost guarantee it).

Take sobergasms, for instance. Oh, I’m willing to bet that a senior in your life has mentioned them, just in another way, before. If you’ve never heard of the term, it’s actually a pretty good one because it means just what you think it does: SOBER ORGASMS. And just to make sure that we all are on the same page, it’s sex — that hopefully includes orgasms — that involves very little to no alcohol.

KEEP READINGShow less
LATEST POSTS