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New York’s Met Museum showcases the power of camp in new exhibition

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Camp: Notes on Fashion will tell the story of camp’s origins from Versailles to 1930s Berlin

Camp both high (the ballet, Caravaggio) and low (superheroes, Strictly) will be the subject of this year’s major fashion exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

At a press conference in Milan, Italy, its curator, Andrew Bolton, said camp spoke to the zeitgeist because of its roots in disenfranchised communities.

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