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anna wintour Following criticism against Jeff Bezos and his wifeLauren Sanchez, Sponsoring the 2026 Met Gala.
Earlier this month, the U.S. circulation Confirmed multi-billionaire Amazon founder is currently the third richest man in the worldWith his TV host-turned-philanthropist wife, Will serve as main sponsor for the 2026 Met Gala. They will also fund an exhibit at the Met’s Costume Institute.
The news sparked immediate online reaction, with critics arguing that the newlyweds – who were married in Italy in June – should not indulge in art and fashion, no matter how much money they may spend at the 2026 ceremony. Others made inevitable jokes about attendees ordering their outfits through Amazon’s next-day Prime delivery.
However, Wintour, who has famously chaired the Met Gala since 1995, came to the couple’s defense.
“I think Lauren is going to be a wonderful asset to the museum and the program,” she recently told cnn“We’re so grateful for her incredible generosity, And she’s a huge lover of costumes and obviously fashion, So we’re thrilled that she’s a part of this night,”
When the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the theme of the Met Gala and its associated exhibition, “Costume Art”, many criticized the institution for its partnership with Bezos and Sanchez.
“This is the most excited I’ve been to the Met until it’s sponsored by Bezos,” one wrote in the comments of the museum’s Instagram post last week.
A third person commented, “Great topic, however, stop giving Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez a platform with art and fashion, these two horrible, autocratic capitalists will never live there no matter how much money they want to spend to buy a culture they never cultivated and will never inhabit.”
The latest joint venture for Bezos and Sanchez, which got married A stunningly gorgeous Venice wedding this summer won’t come cheap. Last year’s gala cost about $6 million, although that amount is small change when your estimated net worth sits around $250 billion.
Keeping with its theme, the costume exhibition will combine costumes with objects The museum is set to showcase how fashion has long been intertwined with various art forms.,
The connections that will be made between the artworks and the costumes will vary, “ranging from the formal to the conceptual, the aesthetic to the political, the personal to the universal, the pictorial to the symbolic and the playful to the profound,” the curators said in a statement.
Wintour resigned from the US post in June circulationeditor-in-chief of After leading the publication for 37 years, editor Chloe Malley replaced him. However, Wintour will remain as Condé Nast’s global chief content officer vogue’s Global editorial director put him in charge of next year’s Met Gala.