{"id":775926,"date":"2026-05-05T22:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/775926\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T22:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:57:19","slug":"lauren-sanchez-bezos-cozies-up-with-anna-wintour-to-unveil-mets-new-costume-art-exhibit-amid-gala-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/775926\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren S\u00e1nchez Bezos cozies up with Anna Wintour to unveil Met\u2019s new Costume Art exhibit amid gala backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lauren S\u00e1nchez Bezos appeared all smiles alongside her friend Anna Wintour in New York today to unveil the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s new Costume Art exhibit ahead of the Met Gala this evening<\/a>.<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez Bezos, whose sponsorship of this year\u2019s star-studded fashion event<\/a> and accompanying exhibit with her billionaire husband Jeff Bezos has proved controversial<\/a>, was welcomed to the stage at a press conference Monday morning by Wintour, the gala\u2019s chair since 1995, who credited S\u00e1nchez Bezos as the only person in the room who could \u201cwear a bias cut dress while banking a helicopter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Introducing the exhibit to a group of select press, including The Independent, Wintour called S\u00e1nchez Bezos a \u201cforce for joy\u201d and \u201cgenerosity,\u201d saying: \u201cShe and her husband, Jeff, have shown with this event that they genuinely, genuinely care about giving back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wintour added that S\u00e1nchez Bezos did far more than lending her name to the event; she attended meetings \u201cfull of enthusiasm and good ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLauren is willing to shake up society with risk-taking and an upbeat spirit that is as boundless as her energy,\u201d the Cond\u00e9 Nast executive said.<\/p>\n

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Lauren S\u00e1nchez Bezos appeared alongside her friend Anna Wintour in New York today to unveil the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s new Costume Art exhibit (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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Lauren S\u00e1nchez Bezos and her husband Jeff Bezos are primary sponsors for this year\u2019s Met Gala and accompanying exhibit (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

During her two-minute address, S\u00e1nchez Bezos spoke about the Bezos Earth Fund, which she said was backing scientists to reimagine sustainable fabric for the future of the fashion industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe future of that art deserves investment,\u201d she told the crowd. \u201cWe\u2019re reimagining what fabric can be \u2014 sustainable silk grown in labs, it is happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

She returned Wintour\u2019s compliments, saying: \u201cNo one has done more to champion fashion as an art form\u2026 thank you, Anna.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bezos\u2019s involvement in this year\u2019s event has led to a boycott campaign from the political activist<\/a> group Everyone Hates Elon, which has distributed flyers across New York City that read \u201cBoycott the Bezos Met Gala\u201d in the lead-up to the ball. The sponsorship has primarily sparked backlash due to accusations that the Amazon mogul and his wife are buying up influence in popular culture, media and politics.<\/p>\n

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Mrs Bezos appeared in the front row at a Monday press conference next to Vogue executive Anna Wintour (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n

Wintour has previously attempted to quell the backlash over the couple\u2019s involvement. She told<\/a> CNN in November: \u201cI think Lauren is going to be a wonderful asset to the museum and to the event. I\u2019m very grateful for her incredible generosity, and she\u2019s a great lover of costume and obviously of fashion, so we\u2019re thrilled she\u2019s part of the night.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bezos have begun to work closely with Vogue\u2019s publisher Cond\u00e9 Nast in recent years. An industry rumor that surfaced last year suggested that the couple was trying to acquire the magazine publisher, though S\u00e1nchez Bezos has previously denied this. A 2025 Vogue digital cover starring S\u00e1nchez Bezos in her wedding gown was also viewed by commentators as a gesture from Wintour.<\/p>\n

The dress code for tonight\u2019s gala is \u201cFashion is Art,\u201d which explores the \u201ccentrality of the dressed body\u201d through subversive interpretations of the human form in the Met\u2019s extensive collection. Guests are encouraged to think of their bodies as a blank canvas.<\/p>\n

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At the \u2018Costume Art\u2019 exhibit, Each garment at the exhibit is paired with an ancient artefact that represents the historical depictions of the feminine body, such as statues of Greek goddesses on pedestals and medieval busts (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The accompanying exhibit that opens 10 May is curated through the thematic body types: \u201cthe naked body,\u201d \u201cclassic body,\u201d \u201cpregnant body, \u201cageing body and \u201cdisabled body,\u201d featuring sculptural and sheer designs from established and upcoming designers.<\/p>\n

A standout ensemble was from Australian fashion designer Michaela Stark, who uses plus-sized mannequins and deconstructed corsets to morph the female form into unconventional shapes and silhouettes. Her work is seen as a protest of the traditional containment of the female form.<\/p>\n

The \u201caging body\u201d section includes an oversized gray hoodie dress by VETEMENTS, emblazoned with the phrase: \u201cI\u2019M RETIRED. (This is as dressed up as I get.)\u201d<\/p>\n

Each garment at the exhibit is paired with an ancient artefact that represents the historical depictions of the female body, such as statues of Greek goddesses on pedestals and medieval busts.<\/p>\n

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The section on the \u2018disabled body\u2019 demonstrates how fashion houses like Burberry adapted clothes for disability activist Sin\u00e9ad Burke (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Every mannequin, created by sculptor Samar Hejazi, features a flat reflective surface instead of a head, for visitors to consider their own visage in its reflection.<\/p>\n

The blockbuster exhibition is the most body-positive and inclusive show that the museum has attempted. The section on \u201cthe disabled body\u201d demonstrates how fashion houses like Burberry have adapted clothes for disability activist Sin\u00e9ad Burke.<\/p>\n

The section also features a Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren \u201cMickey and Minnie\u201d dress, paired with an ancient Egyptian statue of a dancing dwarf.<\/p>\n

In one ensemble, a mannequin based on the Paralympian athlete Aimee Mullins wears a pair of wooden, gladiatorial Alexander McQueen boots, which are actually prosthetic limbs. The outfit is paired with a 1965 sculpture, \u201cThe Amputee,\u201d by John Gutmann.<\/p>\n

As the Met Gala gets underway on Monday evening, the focus will shift from the morning\u2019s unveiling to the red carpet, where many of the ideas explored in the Costume Art exhibition are expected to play out in real time.<\/p>\n

The show opens to the public on May 10, running through January 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lauren S\u00e1nchez Bezos appeared all smiles alongside her friend Anna Wintour in New York today to unveil the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":775927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[16532,185,317136,171,317968,1936,4061,4062,10569,50558,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-775926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-anna-wintour","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-costume-art","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-fashion-event","13":"tag-getty-images","14":"tag-jeff-bezos","15":"tag-lauren-sanchez","16":"tag-met-gala","17":"tag-metropolitan-museum-of-art","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116524446692379313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}