Met Gala 2019: How celebrities did ‘Camp’ on the pink carpet

Forget the pretenders: The Met Gala is the red carpet of all red carpets. Well, technically, pink carpets.

The fundraiser, held at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, continued its reputation of hosting the most out-there, challenging looks on Monday night, with the likes of Lady Gaga, Celine Dion, Jared Leto, and Zendaya just a few of the many highlights from the event.

This year’s Met Gala theme, Camp, was a perfect match for the event’s history of the wild and unapologetically garish. It’s based on a 1964 essay by Susan Sontag, who came to define Camp as a “love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration.”

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Look, we’re not entirely sure if everyone hit the mark when it came to the theme. As Sontag noted, the ultimate Camp statement is something that’s “good because it’s awful,” and it seems like some really nailed the brief, as you’ll see.

Katy Perry

Someone actually make a chandelier that looks like Katy Perry’s outfit, please.

Janelle Monae

Lady Gaga

One of Gaga’s four outfits.

Ezra Miller

Ezra Miller is a little too early for Halloween with his nightmare-inducing face makeup.

Lupita Nyong’o

Cardi B

Celine Dion

Hailee Steinfeld

Zendaya

Zendaya is basically a space-age Disney princess.

Jared Leto

Kendall Jenner

Carnival in Rio De Janeiro was back in February, but we can excuse Kendall Jenner for being a little late to the party with this orange, feather-laden number.

Kylie Jenner

Charli XCX

Gigi Hadid 

In case you’re wondering, Gigi Hadid’s bodysuit is covered in sequins.

Emma Stone

Gwen Stefani

Good luck coming up with an outfit that screams Gwen Stefani as much as this one does.

Ciara

Nicki Minaj

Lucy Boynton

Cara Delevingne

Lizzo

Remember 2018’s ‘Heavenly Bodies’ Met Gala theme? Revisit Rihanna’s Pope chic.