high camp
Deliberate glamorous excess
High camp is exaggerated, theatrical aesthetics embraced deliberately for their artificiality and excess.
Where camp might be unintentional kitsch, high camp is self-aware—performers and artists who know exactly how over-the-top they're being: John Waters films are high camp, The drag show was pure high camp.
The style celebrates what mainstream taste considers too much.
- RuPaulIconic drag performer
- gender performanceSocially constructed identity display
- flamboyantStrikingly bold in style
- feather boaDecorative plume garment
- burlesqueExaggerated mockery or risqué variety
theatrical · over the top · John Waters · ostentatious · extravagant · drag · queer culture · pastiche · Susan Sontag · melodrama · hyperbole · Liberace · absurdism · exaggerated · farce · Mae West · effeminacy · parody
- High Altitudealtitude sickness, thin air, hypoxia, oxygen deprivation, acclimatization
- mountain termsAlps, Himalayas, Rockies, Andes, peaks
- mountaineeringsummit, alpinist, mountaineer, ice axe, ice axes
- expedition campsbivouac, tents, tent, mess tent, cook tent
- expedition sitesresearch station, outpost, dig site, excavation, ice station
- campkitsch, theatricality, flamboyance, exaggeration, over-the-top
high campearnest
Sincerely intense in purpose
sincere · serious · sober · straight-faced · unironic
high campunderstated
Deliberately minimized in expression
subtle · minimalist · restrained · austere · subdued
high, camp, camper, camping, campers, camped, campy, campiness, campiest