Photograph by Matthew Johnson
The 2026 Met Gala–the theme of which was “Fashion Is Art"–started long before the carpet for Lauren Sánchez Bezos, former TV anchor and wife of the world’s second richest man, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. In full society doyenne drag, addressing industry people at the Met Gala press conference on the morning of May 4, Sánchez Bezos spoke about the Bezos Earth Fund’s commitment to “reimagining what fabric can be.” Sustainable silk grown in labs. Cotton rebuilt from the ground up. Because “the designers in this exhibit and the ones coming up after,” she said, “deserve an industry as forward-thinking as they are.”
