Robertet’s Piero Savio and Perfumer Jerome Epinette with Philosophy’s Cailin McCarthy (Photo by Casey Kelbaugh)

Led by The Met’s Helen Lee, while the museum was closed to the public, the group explored the theme of the artificiality, parody, pastiche, humor, irony and exaggeration and how these themes have been expressed in fashion.  Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay “Notes on Camp” provides the framework for the exhibition, which traces the history of CAMP from its origins with Moliere to modern day Moschino.

The Metropolitan Museum’s Helen Lee and guests (Photo by Casey Kelbaugh)

“The hallmark of Camp is the spirit of extravagance. Camp is a woman walking around in a dress made of three million feathers,” wrote Sontag.

Renaud Salmon, Global VP, Marc Jacobs Fragrances, viewing a Balenciaga dress made of pink silk tulle and ostrich feathers. A gift of Mrs. Charles B. Wrightsman

Robertet’s Bob Weinstein with George Ledes

Hosted by Robertet’s North America CEO, Bob Weinstein, along with Piero Savio, Pierre Wulff and Perfumer Jerome Epinette and orchestrated by Austin Advisory Group’s Paul Austin, guest’s included Ann Gottlieb; Atelier Cologne founder Sylvie Ganter; Fragrance Foundation President Linda Levy; Nest Fragrance’s Laura Slatkin; CEW’s Carlotta Jacobson; Luxe Brand’s Noreen Dodge; Coty’s Renaud Salmon; Parsons School of Design’s Shelley Fox and Joff Moolhuizen; Interparfum’s Jennifer Mullarkey, Baerbel Beurick and Walter Johnson; Byredo and Dyptique’s Julian Gommichon; Philosophy’s Cailin McCarthy, Reckitt’s Laura Clark; Target’s Gloria Hoo and Elizabeth Chon; and Maesa’s Dana Steinfeld; and Sarah Brown.

Robertet’s Pierre Wulff and Seth Pasternak with Hannah Silver and Malinda Appel of Nest Fragrances. (Photo by Casey Kelbaugh)

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Christophe Maubert, president of Grasse-based fragrance house, Robertet, invited a select group of beauty and fashion insiders for a sensory tour de force on Monday;  a private tour of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heavenly Bodies exhibition given by Columbia University Professor Page Knox – all while the museum was closed to the public.

The exhibition, explores the dialogue between fashion and medieval art and how fashion designers – from YSL, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Versace, Thom Browne and others – have been inspired by the symbolism, dress and devotional practices of The Catholic Church.  

One of the many highlights of the tour, orchestrated by Austin Advisory Group’s Paul Austin, was the viewing of the 41 items from the Sistine Chapel sacristy, many of which have never been seen out of the Vatican, on exhibit in The Anna Wintour Costume Center -a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that houses the collection of the Costume Institute.

Guests included:  Sarah Brown; CEW’s Lisa Klein; Fragrance Foundation president Linda G. Levy; Estée Lauder’s Trudi Loren; ; The New York Times’ Bee Shapiro; Nest’s Nancy McKay;  Parlux’s Catherine Russell;Coty’s Lori Singer; Philosophy’s Marie-Pierre Starkflora; Robertet’s Piero Savio, 2018 Fragrance Foundation Award Winning Perfumer Jerome Epinette, and Mathieu Nardin.

We hear a second tour is scheduled later this month.

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