If you’re looking forward to seeing an exhibition based on this year’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Met Gala, “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” you’ll be disappointed when you do.

In its aesthetics and practice, camp disregards elite standards and instead ostentatiously leans toward excess and decadence, while also appropriating middle class appeal. The word “camp” is derived from the French term, “se camper,” which means, “to pose in an exaggerated manner.” Its definition has remained fluid and is best described by those who embody it.