Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is wearing feathers at the Met Gala tonight.
Wintour told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour last month that she planned to take inspiration from a line in Susan Sontag’s essay, "Notes on 'Camp'" for her own attire tonight.
Sontag writes in the essay: “Camp is a woman walking around in a dress made of three million feathers.”
Wintour has transformed the Met Gala into a night of Oscar-level red carpet excitement and serious fundraising.
In 2015, the New York Times reported that the gala had raised over $145 million under Wintour, a figure that will likely surpass $200 million after tonight’s event.
On this year’s “camp” theme, Wintour said that the team was referring to “camp” as “from sun kings to drag queens” in-house.
“If you read [Sontag's] remarkable essay, you will understand that ‘camp’ is an expression of everything that is artificial, everything that is a little bit fake, it’s the opposite of nature, so don’t wear your hunting boots or your backpack, and obviously we’re also looking at the influence that the LGBTQ community has had on camp,” Wintour said.
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