Fashion|Fashion legend Anna Wintour defends the billionaire couple and especially Lauren Sánchez Bezos.
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The billionaire couple Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos have become the main sponsor of next year’s Met Gala.
The sponsorship decision has attracted criticism on social media, as critics see it as highlighting the transition of cultural institutions to the control of billionaires.
Anna Wintour defends the sponsorship, describing Lauren Sánchez Bezos as a fashion lover and a wonderful asset to the museum.
From the last few weeks news billionaire couple By Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez Bezosin becoming the main sponsor of next year’s Met Gala has not only been met with unreserved joy. Criticism has been expressed especially on social media, he says CNN.
Bezos, who is one of the richest people in the world, is fixated on the Met Gala, according to critics, which reflects the transition of cultural institutions to the control of billionaires.
According to some, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos could use his funds better, for purposes other than supporting a fashion gala. Some hope that public figures will boycott next year’s event.
With their sponsorship decision, the Bezos couple is seen as trying to gain acceptance from the culture and fashion world.
Following the art world Artnetin according to the news has also revived rumors that the founder of Amazon plans to buy Condé Nast, the parent company of Vogue magazine, which organizes the Met Gala.
Met-gaala is a spectacular charity and fashion event organized in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, which for years has been led by Anna Wintour.
Wintour stepped down as editor-in-chief of US Vogue earlier this year, but remains Vogue’s global managing director and Condé Nast’s chief content officer. So he’s still leading the Met Gala.
Wintour also defends a new main sponsor. She describes Lauren Sánchez Bezos as “a big lover of suits and of course fashion”. Wintour, who gave an interview to CNN, believes that the former journalist and current philanthropist will be “a wonderful asset for the museum and the event.”
“We are very grateful for her incredible generosity, so we are thrilled to have her as part of the gala,” Wintour said.
The Bezos couple is said to be responsible for everything “from invitations to logistics” at the upcoming Met Gala. Independentin sponsorship is probably first and foremost Sánchez Bezos’ dream, not so much Jeff Bezos’s.
The Independent’s culture editor Ellie Muir writes that Sánchez Bezos is believed to play a central role in the “rebranding” of her husband’s public image.
“Buying your way into social media’s biggest A-list event seems to be part of a plan for cultural supremacy,” he writes.
Bezos and Sánchez Bezos got married last June in Venice.