Leftist fans of the Met Gala event are threatening to boycott it because of its ties this year to Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and his wife.
According to Vogue magazine, Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos are this year’s “lead sponsors” and “will also serve as honorary chairs.”
Sickening news. Shame on Anna Wintour. I hope celebs with a conscience boycott this: Jeff and Lauren Sánchez Bezos Will Be Honorary Chairs of the Met Gala
— Marjorie Morningstar (@hopelikehell) February 24, 2026
This has deeply upset leftists.
“[S]top platforming Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez with art and fashion, two places that these two awful, unfettered capitalists will never belong in, no matter how much money they want to throw around to buy culture they have never cultivated and will never inhabit,” one critic reportedly wrote on Instagram.
Amy Odell, who wrote a biography about Vogue boss Anna Wintour, appeared to blame the new sponsorships on recent layoffs.
“Condé Nast is making cuts. The gala is going on. Rich people are ‘riching,’” she said in an Instagram video. “The optics are kind of uncomfortable. Maybe these are just going to be the optics of the gala every year until something changes with income inequality in this country.”
Hate her or love her, the fact remains that Sánchez Bezos appears to be at least somewhat close to Wintour.
“It started when Ms. Wintour put Ms. Sánchez Bezos at her wedding on the digital cover of Vogue in June, after publishing an equally laudatory profile in 2023,” according to the New York Times.
“Ms. Sánchez Bezos was one of the few brides ever to make the Vogue cover … and for many viewers, it seemed as if Ms. Wintour was selling the magazine, or at least its stylish soul, to Mr. Bezos — with an eye, perhaps, to selling Condé Nast,” the newspaper reported.
Wintour, for her part, doesn’t appear to be sweating the leftist hate.
Speaking with CNN in November, when news of the Bezos’ role vis-à -vis the Met Gala first broke, she described Sánchez as a “great lover of costume and obviously of fashion,” and she’d be a “wonderful asset to the museum and the event.”
“We’re very grateful for her incredible generosity, so we’re thrilled she’s part of the night,” she added.
The theme of this year’s gala will reportedly be “Costume Art”:
The theme for the 2026 Met Gala has been revealed to be ‘Costume Art.’ pic.twitter.com/NI8tYcWAM7
— Pop Base (@PopBase) November 17, 2025
The dress code, meanwhile, is “Fashion is Art.”
“The directive perfectly reflects the ethos of ‘Costume Art,’ which explores the ‘centrality of the dressed body’ through depictions and interpretations of the human form in the Met’s extensive collection,” according to a Vogue press release.
“Made up of nearly 400 objects, the show—set to occupy the Met’s new Condé M. Nast Galleries, adjacent to the Great Hall—pairs garments from the Costume Institute with paintings, sculptures, and other works spanning some 5,000 years of art history. In turn, the dress code encourages attendees to consider the many ways that designers use the body as their blank canvas,” the press release continues.
People magazine notes that the 2026 exhibition will mark “the inauguration of the Institute’s first permanent galleries at the museum.”
“The nearly 12,000-square-foot Condé M. Nast Galleries will sit adjacent to The Met’s Great Hall,” People magazine reported.
The curator in charge of the Gala is Andrew Bolton.
He previously revealed that the new setup will be “a huge moment for the Costume Institute.”
“It will be transformative for our department, but I also think it’s going to be transformative to fashion more generally — the fact that an art museum like The Met is actually giving a central location to fashion,” he said.
“What connects every curatorial department and what connects every single gallery in the museum is fashion, or the dressed body. It’s the common thread throughout the whole museum, which is really what the initial idea for the exhibition was this epiphany: I know that we’ve often been seen as the stepchild, but, in fact, the dressed body is front and center in every gallery you come across. Even the nude is never naked. It’s always inscribed with cultural values and ideas,” he added.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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