--- title: Met Gala 2019 Will Feature Camp Theme, Harry Styles as Host description: The 2019 Met Gala's "camp" theme will be reinforced by the night's co-hosts, Gucci's Alessandro Michele, muse Harry Styles, and Lady Gaga. canonical: https://time.com/5420012/met-gala-2019/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-09T22:59:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:23.189Z og:title: The Theme for the 2019 Met Gala Means It's Going to Be Wild og:description: Inspired by Susan Sontag's "Notes on Camp" og:url: https://time.com/5420012/met-gala-2019/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52da234070ace1b4/69893c2f7cdbac4bccd5e212/met-gala-2019-theme-camp-gucci-harry-styles-lady-gaga.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: met-gala-2019-theme-camp-gucci-harry-styles-lady-gaga og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Theme for the 2019 Met Gala Means It's Going to Be Wild twitter:description: Inspired by Susan Sontag's "Notes on Camp" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52da234070ace1b4/69893c2f7cdbac4bccd5e212/met-gala-2019-theme-camp-gucci-harry-styles-lady-gaga.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Annual 2019 Met Gala Will Be 'Camp'-Themed. Let Us Explain.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 9, 2018 10:59 PM UTC  Getty  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 9, 2018 10:59 PM UTC The [2019 Met Gala](http://time.com/5256466/met-gala-2018-details-theme-date/) will be a celebration of gregariously [over-the-top fashion](http://time.com/5399673/emmys-2018-red-carpet-trend/) thanks to its theme, “Camp: Notes on Fashion.” The annual soirée, held on the first Monday in May at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of its Costume Institute, has long been acknowledged as “fashion’s biggest night” and its camp theme this year ensures that the famed steps leading up to the museum will be filled with style statements that won’t soon be forgotten. According to Andrew Bolton, Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute, in an interview with [_Vogue_](https://www.vogue.com/article/costume-institute-2019-exhibition-camp-notes-on-fashion?mbid=social%5Ftwitter%5Fvr), the 2019 Met Gala theme was inspired by Susan Sontag’s legendary 1964 essay, “Notes on Camp,” in which she describes camp as the “love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration…style at the expense of content.” Bolton found the essay to be especially relevant as it related to the current political and cultural climate. The gala will fittingly be sponsored by Gucci this year, a brand that has become known in recent years for its whimsical and ostentatious style under the creative direction of [Alessandro Michele](http://time.com/collection/2017-time-100/4736178/alessandro-michele/). Michele will be a co-chair of the night’s festivities, alongside Gucci muse Harry Styles, Lady Gaga (herself a camp impresario in the pop world and beyond), tennis superstar Serena Williams, and _Vogue_ editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5420012/met-gala-2019/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5420012/met-gala-2019/"},"headline":"The Annual 2019 Met Gala Will Be 'Camp'-Themed. 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