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Robertet, CAMP & The Met
Guests were treated to a private tour of the vibrant exhibit
In early May 2019, a mix of designers, editors, and beauty
executives joined fragrance house Robertet for a private tour
of the extravagant and exuberant “CAMP: Notes on Fashion”
exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
The exhibition, which opened with the 2019 Met Gala on
May 6th and ended in early September, explored how irony,
humor, theatricality, and exaggeration have been expressed in
fashion over the past 200 years and today.
Robertet’s group of guests, which included Fragrance
Creators Association President & CEO Farah K. Ahmed; the
Fragrance Foundation’s Linda Levy; Atelier Cologne founder
Sylvie Ganter; Ann Gottlieb; CEW’s Carlotta Jacobsen; Nest’s
Laura Slatkin; beauty editor Sarah Brown; Parlux’s Lori Singer;
Byredo’s Gerard Camme; Coty’s Renaud Salmon; and others,
recognized the parallels with the fragrance world and how
many of the themes can help dictate fragrance development and
storytelling.
“Our long-term partnership with the Met’s Costume Institute
allows us to provide our clients exclusive access to a unique
cultural moment,” said Robert Weinstein, PhD, President &
CEO, Robertet USA and Fragrance Creators’ Board Chairman.
“This year’s CAMP Exhibit allowed us to explore unexpected
avenues of inspiration and, ultimately, facilitate pushing the level
of innovation in our fragrance collaborations.” FN
Robert Weinstein, PhD, President & CEO, Robertet USA, and Fragrance
Creators’ Board Chairman in the exhibit with Fragrance Creators
President & CEO Farah Ahmed
According to the Met website: “Through
more than 250 objects dating from the
seventeenth century to the present,
The Costume Institute’s spring 2019
exhibition explores the origins of
camp’s exuberant aesthetic. Susan
Sontag’s 1964 essay “Notes on
‘Camp’” provides the framework for
the exhibition, which examines how
the elements of irony, humor, parody,
pastiche, artifice, theatricality, and
exaggeration are expressed in fashion”
Learn more at https://www.metmuseum.
org/exhibitions/listings/2019/camp-
notes-on-fashion. Photo courtesy of
Robertet USA.
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