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Met Gala 2019: Topless Rita Ora wraps body in purple fur as stars prepare for glam bash
The singer looked to be having plenty of fun as she danced around her hotel room and struck her best camp poses
RITA Ora gave fans a behind the scenes glimpse into what it's like preparing for the fashion spectacle that is the Met Gala.
The Brit pop star, 28, embraced the camp theme of this year's event in a playful video on her Instagram account.
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Covering her nude body with a purple fur, she danced around a room, grinning from behind a pair of shades.
She wrote: "Time to get camp!! I really should start getting ready...💜 ."
Charli XCX, 26, struck a sassy pose wrapped in a towel inside The Surrey Hotel and wore heavy eye make-up.
She told fans: "met gala 2019 I’m coming for you!!!!! 💕💓."
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Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriend Camila Morrone, 21, wore a stylish leather blazer and matching trousers as she arrived the Mark Hotel to get dressed for the occasion.
Emily Ratajkowski, 27, was another who put on a fashionable display ahead of her outfit unveiling.
She was seen exiting a car in a tan blazer and snakeprint boots.
The full title of 2019's gala theme is Camp: Notes on Fashion.
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The theme is inspired by a 1964 essay in which American author Susan Sontag defined camp by its "love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration".
It is, like every other year, completely open to interpretation and will undoubtedly attract some incredibly striking outfits.
Lady Gaga, Serena Williams and Harry Styles have been chosen as the 2019 co-chairs alongside Vogue USA Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour and curator of the Costume Institute, Andrew Bolton.
Andrew made headlines when he referred to Donald Trump as a great example of political camp.
He admitted to the New York Times that the theme has been on his radar for years, and has “become increasingly more mainstream in its pluralities – political camp, queer camp, pop camp, the conflation of high and low, the idea that there is no such thing as originality”.
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Last year Catholicism ruled the celebrity runway thanks to the theme of Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, seeing many create mock-up religious looks.
One of the hosts, singer Rihanna, took style cues from the Pope in a large, beaded papal crown, embellished dress, cropped jacket and a crucifix necklace.
She topped it off with a huge mitre.
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